June 10
Khartoum: leit-werk continues to support Dorsch Consult during the implementation of the New Khartoum International Airport. The design of the Passenger terminal is currently reviewed and will be prepared to meet the requirements of key financing organisations.
May 10
Planning application: leit-werk's design proposals for a 4 star hotel, spa and village development for the new,
Santa Monica Beach Hotel, Boa Vista, Cape Verde, will be submitted for planning early July. More details under buildings on our web page.
30 Apr 10
Lucky chairman: AJ Specification was re-launched this week with a Spring Party at Clerkenwell.
CABE chair and AJ editorial director Paul Finch introduced the re-design at the Walter Knoll showroom.
To mark the occasion Walter Knoll generously raffled a Jens Risom 1947 Vostra Chair that was bagged by leit-werk's Managing director Henrik Rothe. The lucky streak of leit-werk continues after winning the international design competition for the new Ethiopian Airlines headquarters at Bole International Airport.
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
12 Apr 10
Ethiopian Airlines Headquarters, Addis Ababa
We won the international contest to design the new Ethiopian Airlines Headquarters at Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The 22,000m
2, two-phase office scheme features naturally ventilated, sculptural elements housing a library, a conference centre and a café. Collaborative partners are iproplan® and Ultimate plan
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
26 Feb 10
Henrik Rothe contributes an essay to the publication London +10, edited by Carlos Villanueva Brandt. The book London +10 focuses on London over the last 20 years, questioning and celebrating the city and generating possible scenarios for its future.
www.aaschool.ac.uk
22 Nov 09
leit-werk is official partner to
TMT - The Mobile Terminal Project, the first flexible, modular, brandable and eco-efficient mobile passenger terminal. We look forward to seeing you at the SMAG conference and exhibition in Dubrovnik and at the Passenger Terminal EXPO in Brussels.
"The Mobile Terminal"
"SMAG Conference and Exhibition, Dubrovnik - Stand 4"
"Passenger Terminal EXPO 2010 - Stand 1201"
12 Oct 09
London Metropolitan University
As every year, leit-werk staff is lecturing at the University's Department of Architecture and Spatial Design within the seminar series for building study for the next three months.
04 Sept 2009
Abbey Green Competition Barking, East London - leit-werk in
collaboration with Schoenaich Landscape Architects has been shortlisted as one
of 6 teams for 2nd stage.
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/leit-werk
and
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/Abbey
Green
more here
11 June 09
Press
Henrik Rothe quoted on the relationship of low cost airlines and terminal design in an article by Martin Roebuck, July issue of
Low Cost & Regional Airline Business magazine.
click here to see full article
24-26 March 2009
Passenger terminal EXPO in London - leit-werk will be amongts
the exhibitors with stand No 1900. We would like to invite you to join us for
a glass of champagne at our stand on Tuesday 24th March at 5pm ,
to see our work and exchange ideas. Our managing director Henrik Rothe will
give a talk entitled
Giant Sheds - a new view on passenger terminals
on Wednesday 25th March at 16.35 pm.
14 Nov 08
Wonderland Symposium "Getting specialised" in Vienna
- Henrik Rothe (MD) presented and discussed leit-werk's approach towards delivering large aviation projects.
www.wonderland.cx
21 Oct 08
Euroforum conference about airport cities in Frankfurt, Germany
- Henrik Rothe (MD) gave a paper about leit-werk’s vision for a new approach to sequential
airport development.
30 Sept 08
Richard Chapman of ADC is now working with leit-werk on aviation
projects, following a long-standing collaborative relationship since 2001. Richard
is an expert in the field of airport and terminal planning with a high level
of understanding, knowledge and capability in the planning and design of passenger
terminals, their capacity calculation, size calculation and the integration
of commercial and operational requirements.
26 Sept 08
Honorable Mention for our entry at the design competition
for new Lublin airport, Poland. The jury welcomed the urban approach integrating a public piazza in front of
the terminal.
01 Nov 07
leit-werk autumn newsletter
click here to open
05 Oct 07
Model City Workshop - run by members of leit-werk - at the
Education Centre of the Design Museum, London: Make a model of your ideal London
building and add it to the ‘London of the Future Cityscape’ !
26 Sept 07
We have won the urban design competition for the regeneration
of a square in the city centre of Blackpool, UK.
27-29 March 07
Passenger EXPO 2007, Barcelona leit-werk invites to a
Beautifull Breakfast at the roof terrace of Hotel Casa Fuster
09 February 07
RIBA competition: leit-werk is one of the six selected teams
for the final stage within the international RIBA design competition for the
Stoke-on-Trent city centre revamp.
www.architecture.com
10 October 06
Unveiling of the 1:200 model of the KNIA passenger terminal in Khartoum
09 September 06
Venice Biennale: leit-werk is invited to present recent projects
at the DARK SIDE, a critical salon hosted by the Architectural Review and White
Partners, London. Members of the debating panel were renowned architects Bernhard
Tschumi, Matthias Sauerbruch, Wolf Prix and architectural critic Aaron Betsky.
21 June 06
London Architecture Biennale: URBAN CARPET and IMAGE CURTAIN
- please come to our special screeen 5.30 and 10pm to meet the team
!
www.urbancarpet.org.uk
16 -25 June 06
leit-werk is invited to take part in the London Architecture Biennale. An
installation around the URBAN CARPET will be on display at St Pancras Station
and the German Gymnasium.
March 06
By end of 03/06 the current status of the design works for the new international
airport in Khartoum, Sudan will be presented to the Sudanese client before submitting
tender documents to the shortlisted EPC contractors.
On 15th November 2005 the master plan was introduced to the public at Sharja Hall
in the Sudanese capital.