Erik Behrens

Erik Behrens (born 14 May 1975) is a German architect and designer.

Early life and career
In 2006 he moved to London to join EDAW to become a key member of the team designing the London 2012 Olympic Park and Legacy development.

He has worked on several projects that have won various national and international honors and awards, including the prestigious International Architecture Awards of the Chicago Athenaeum.

In 2020, the Al Wahda Arches, a 100-meter-tall immersive public artwork and national landmark in Qatar, was completed, attracting a lot of media attention to him.

He worked as AECOM’s architecture design director and project leader on the reinvigoration of the 1994 built Waterloo International railway station.

In the AlUla desert in Saudi Arabia, Erik Behrens and his team are designing a new equestrian village with low-lying, sand-colored structures.

He is the architect of the Gordie Howe International Bridge the longest Cable-stayed bridge in North America.

Erik Behrens and James Haig Streeter are architects commissioned by the Qatar Foundation, they designed the Oxygen Park in Doha capital of Qatar.

Awards

 * 2022 Chicago Athenaeum International Award – Al Wahda Arches
 * 2021: Chicago Athenaeum International Award – Oxygen Park
 * 2018: ENR Best Global Projects Award – Lusail Expressway
 * 2017: Finalist World Architecture Festival – Oxygen Park
 * 2016: World Architecture News Future Project Award 2016 – Underwater Domes of Istanbul, Turkey
 * 2008: Shenzhen-Hong Kong Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture – Greenmetropolis
 * 2008: European Urban and Regional Planning Award- Greenmetropolis

Publications

 * Archplus, 168 Chinesischer Hochgeschwindigkeits Urbanismus, 2004, ISSN 0587-3452
 * MADA in Model, 2005, ISBN 7-80177-305-5/TU
 * Urban Landscape 07, Fuck the Context, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, 2007
 * Updating Germany 100 Projects for a Better Future, Hatje Cantz Verla, 2008, ISBN 978-3775722629
 * New Geographies, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2008, ISBN 978-1-934510-13-1.
 * Stadt Bauen, Deutscher Stadtebaupreis 2008, Jovis, ISBN 978-3-939633-88-4
 * Ecological Urbanism, Co-published by Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Lars Muller Publishers, 2016, ISBN 978-3037784679
 * Territories, Die Stadt aus der Landschaft entwickeln, Birkhauser, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7643-8844-7