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HPP Architekten GmbH is a German architecture firm operating both nationally and internationally, with headquarters in Düsseldorf. As an architectural partnership, HPP employs over 450 people in its 13 branches in Germany, Netherlands, China and Turkey. The subsidiaries registered in Germany are HPP International Planungsgesellschaft mbH, HPP Service GmbH, HPP Generalplanung GmbH und HPP Projektmanagement GmbH.

History
In 1933, after working for Ernő Goldfinger in Paris and for Norman Bel Geddes in New York City, and after completing a traineeship in the state construction administration, Helmut Hentrich founded his own office in Düsseldorf - a forerunner of today's HPP. Two years later, Hentrich joined forces with Hans Heuser to form the architectural partnership Hentrich & Heuser. Their practice participated in important competitions in the German Reich. In 1944, the practice was commissioned by the task force for the reconstruction of bomb-damaged cities to plan the reconstruction of Krefeld. Hentrich & Heuser continued its work as a well-established office seamlessly after World War II, in part thanks to their good relationships with Friedrich Tamms and Hanns Dustmann, who planned the reconstruction of Düsseldorf. These relationships were critisized in the so called Düsseldorfer Architektenstreit, a series of contraversies in the early 50s that arouse around the Nazi backgrounds of the personnel policies in the young Federal Republic.

After Heuser's death in 1953, Helmut Hentrich continued the joint venture with Hubert Petschnigg. In 1969, new partners were taken on and from then on, the office was calles HPP - Hentrich-Petschnigg & Parner.

HPP began to internationalize in 1968 an designed the offices for the Standard Bank Centre in South Africa, the city's first high-rise building. This was followed by more international projects and the first international HPP offices from the 2000s on. The general management of the architecture firm was reconstructed after the death of Hubert Petschnigg in 1997 and again after the death of its founder Helmut Hentrich in 2001. In 2017, HPP Hentrich-Petschnigg & Partner GmbH + Co. KG changed its name to HPP Architekten GmbH.

Currently, the Düsseldorf-based architectural partnership is in the fourth generation and is represented nationally and internationally with 13 branches in 4 countries and 450 employees.

In the World Architecture 100 Ranking 2023, HPP has moved up from 24th to 20th place compared to the previous year. The results of the ranking by the British magazine BD are announced annually in January. Three German firms, including HPP, are among the top 100 architecture firms in 2023.

Services and Building Types
HPP's range of services includes urban planning, architecture and interior design as well as revitalization, modernisation & refurbishment, general planning and project management. Building typologies include corporate headquarters, office and administrative buildings, hotel and residential construction, hospital buildings, sports and leisure facilities, cultural buildings, shopping centers, buildings for teaching and research, industrial and transportation buildings.

Projects
Since the company was founded, more than 1,200 projects of various building typologies have been realized. Among the most significant are:


 * 1960: Dreischeibenhaus
 * 1968: Standard Bank Centre, Johannesburg
 * 1989: Maritim Hotel Bonn
 * 1992: Headquarters of Sparkasse KölnBonn an der Hahnenstraße
 * 2010: Rheinhallen Köln
 * 2012: Vodafone-Campus, Düsseldorf
 * 2014: Modernisation of the Dreischeibenhaus Düsseldorf
 * 2015: Kongreßhalle Leipzig
 * 2015: LVM 5, Münster
 * 2015: Deutsches Fußballmuseum, Dortmund
 * 2015: Justizzentrum Gelsenkirchen
 * 2016: Hochschule Ruhr West, Mülheim an der Ruhr
 * 2017: maxCologne
 * 2017: L’Oréal Horizon, Düsseldorf
 * 2019: Huide Tower, Shenzhen
 * 2020: Maslak Square, Istanbul
 * 2021: Pudong Soccer Arena, Shanghai
 * 2021: Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln
 * 2021: The Cradle, Düsseldorf
 * 2021: Europa-Park-Stadion, Freiburg
 * 2023: Nanshan Science & Technology Innovation Center

Awards and Prizes in the last 5 Years

 * 2015: Congress Hall Leipzig, Architekturpreis der Stadt Leipzig, Lobende Erwähnung
 * 2015: AND Istanbul, European Property Awards
 * 2015: Dreischeibenhaus, MIPIM Award „Best Refurbished Building“
 * 2017: Hochschule Ruhr West Mülheim a.d.R., Auszeichnung guter Bauten
 * 2018: The Cradle, Iconic Award: Innovative Architecture
 * 2018: Finnlandhaus, BDA Hamburg Architektur Preis, Würdigung
 * 2018: The Cradle, MIPIM/The Architectural Review Future Project Award
 * 2019: Bismarck Quartier Düren, FIABCI Prix d’Excellence Germany Official Selection
 * 2020: L’Oréal Headquarters Düsseldorf, iF Design Award Offices / Workspaces
 * 2022: Europa-Park Stadion Freiburg, Iconic Awards: Innovative Architecture 2022 in the Category Architecture: Public/Culture/Education
 * 2022: Europa-Park Stadion Freiburg, International Architecture Awards 2022 in the Category e Sport and Recreation

Publications

 * 2015: Kongresshalle am Zoo Leipzig, jovis Verlag GmbH, Berlin / Publisher: Falk Jaeger, ISBN 978-3-86859-404-1.
 * 2015: Kristall, jovis Verlag GmbH, Berlin Publisher: Falk Jaeger ISBN 978-3-86859-336-5
 * 2013: HPP Architekten Balance (german/english), Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern ISBN 978-3-7757-3688-6
 * 2009: HPP Architekten Leitbilder (german/english), Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern ISBN 978-3-7757-2172-1