HAINWERK
Credits
Company / Customer
HAMBURG TEAM
Henderson Park
Designer
Grüntuch Ernst Architekten
Code of Practice
Year
2026
Location
Berlin (DE)
Disciplines
Concept
Category
Visionary and Uncompleted Architecture
Award
Best of Best
Details
Hainwerk is a forward-looking, mixed-use development between Friedrichshain and Mediaspree, combining office, commercial, and residential uses. Designed as a sustainable timber hybrid building, it uses geothermal energy, photovoltaics, and air-source heat pumps for a self-sufficient renewable energy supply. Landscaped open spaces on every floor create green working environments in the heart of Berlin as part of an overall ensemble that reinterprets the historic perimeter block in a contemporary way.
The Jury‘s Statement
As a transformation project, the Hainwerk sets the highest standards of sustainability with its ecological hybrid timber construction, climate-neutral energy concept, maximum urban greening, and future-oriented circularity principle (C2C). The seven-storey mixed-use complex combines office, commercial, and residential spaces, with the micro-apartments and office floors in particular designed to be highly flexible. Also noteworthy is the building’s self-sufficient energy supply, achieved through a combination of geothermal energy, photovoltaics, and air-source heat pumps. The development is being built to the highly efficient Effizienzhaus 40 standard and is also aiming for DGNB Platinum pre-certification and LEED Platinum. A well-thought-out vision and an important urban building block for Berlin—its completion is eagerly awaited.
