Christoph Ingenhoven has long pursued green building at a grand scale with projects such as the RWE high-rise in Essen (1997)—one of the first office towers with a double-skin facade. Here, he will explore several of his more recent works, all of which deploy high-performance principles at the urban scale. These include Marina One in Singapore, a 4.3 million-square-foot office and residential project with a jungle-like profusion of tropical vegetation growing within a terraced central court; his reinvigoration of the center of Dusseldorf (his hometown) with the restoration of a much-loved 1970s theater, adjacent to his design for a new, green-covered retail/office complex; and finally, the decades-long project to expand Stuttgart’s main rail station with a skylit, subterranean train hall in elegantly-sculpted concrete.

Christoph Ingenhoven is the principal and founder of Ingenhoven Architects, one of the leading international architecture firms committed to sustainable architecture. He has achieved LEED, Swiss Minergy Standard, BREEAM and DGNB certifications. Ingenhoven is also a founding member of Architecture Societies and Federations (including German Society for Sustainable Building + the Federal Foundation for Building Culture) and a member of the North-Rhine Westphalia Academy of Sciences and Arts.