27/05/2026
Europe’s historic building stock: one comprehensive renovation, please!
Five buildings across Europe, each renovated once – and in doing so accelerating and enabling the energy-efficient refurbishment of a large proportion of the continent’s historic building stock. This is the ambition of the FuturHist project, which also involves several organisations closely connected to denkmal.
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27/05/2026
24 Diplomas – Warsaw, Where Resistance and Reconstruction Went Hand in Hand
The modernism of the post-war period – the last article on this topic explored differing terminology in East and West Germany and concluded: “It’s complicated.” But how do people in Eastern Europe describe the architecture that emerged after 1945? A new round of research begins, and it quickly becomes clear: the focus of this article must be Warsaw. Even though the city by no means represents all of Eastern Europe, the story of its reconstruction – and resistance – must be told once again.
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27/05/2026
Transformations in heritage conservation – a conversation with Alf Furkert ahead of the VDL Annual Conference in Leipzig
From 8 to 10 June 2026, the Association of State Heritage Offices in Germany (VDL) will hold its annual conference in Leipzig. The focus will be on current transformation processes, conflicts and opportunities within heritage conservation. Alf Furkert, Saxony’s State Conservator and Head of the State Office for Heritage Conservation in Saxony – and, last but not least, a member of the advisory board of denkmal – offers insights into the conference themes, the objectives of his office in times of change, and the future perspectives of heritage conservation.
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27/05/2026
From survey point to data cloud – surveying is becoming more digital than ever
For more than five decades, Linsinger ZT GmbH Vermessung has continuously evolved – from a small land-surveying office into a leading specialist in heritage surveying. In this interview, Helmut Hörmannseder explains just how profoundly technology, working methods and projects have changed over the years.
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12/03/2026
Commitment in the City: Cooperative Housing and Heritage Conservation Hand in Hand
Managing one’s own building together as a tenants’ community, taking care of financing, and handling communication between all parties involved — all of this sounds like a lot of work. And often there are also heritage protection requirements to consider. Yet it is precisely this commitment from many people in Leipzig’s civic society that preserves existing buildings and ensures their restoration. At the same time, it contributes to maintaining livable neighborhoods with affordable rents. A look at the Solidarische Wohnungsgenossenschaft Leipzig eG, or “SoWo” for short, shows what lies behind self-managed housing in Leipzig’s housing projects.
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10/03/2026
An object alone won’t make the monument – on the power of photography
How does an architectural photographer approach his subjects? How is the debate between new construction and building within existing structures reflected through the lens of a camera? And how much creative freedom is involved in documenting listed buildings? Hamburg-based architectural photographer Piet Niemann has drawn a number of conclusions from his work and shared them with us.
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