Numerous buildings have been added to the oeuvre of Hilmer & Sattler and Albrecht since the year 2000, when the first book about the architects work was published by Edition Axel Menges. But the practice, which has had Thomas Albrecht as a partner since 1994, alongside Heinz Hilmer and Christoph Sattler, has not changed its approach in relation to previous years. Inventing something new is still not central to the symbiotic work carried out by the three cooperating partners. They are concerned with treating accumulated architectural memories and typologies dialectically. This is not achieved by associatively assembling quotations from historical or modern architecture that are more or less justified in terms of content, but by sticking rigidly to the rule that 'a building is a building', and nothing more. But the architects have subsequently sharpened and perfected their treatment of historical references with respect to both urban planning and to building typologies and details. The Berlin practice has tied itself more closely to historical models with its buildings in Potsdamer and Leipziger Platz and also at the Lenné-Dreieck, now rearranged in urban development terms, with the Beisheim Center and the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and Apartment Tower, while the Munich buildings in Karl- ScharnaglRing or on the Theresienhöhe keep to a formal language more closely related to Modernism. The new residential buildings in Berlin and Munich, usually intended for particularly wealthy clients, tackle new urban-development and design, which means that Hilmer & Sattler und Albrecht are continuing one of the practice's important fields of activity. One particular jewel is the little museum to house a reconstruction of the famous Gottorf Globe, in the Baroque garden of Schloss Gottorf near Schleswig. In this small building, as also in the Picasso Museum in Münster, the architects set off a firework display of ideas and references from European architectural history, making it possible to speak

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