We design
architecture
From designing for large corporations to creating residential buildings: The award-winning architects from OOW in Berlin design new buildings and interiors. Powerful, focused and strong.
Polished Copper. Night-Green. Capturing the daylight and glowing at night.
260 Grad
“The copper bar is like a magic mirror. Its warm reflections echo our innermost wishes for a good long drink!”
A bar that captures the light of Berlin during the day and glows magically from within in the evening: With the rooftop bar 260 Grad, OOW shows how modern architecture makes optimal use of light and creates a unique atmosphere in a space.
Award-winning solar villa in Ticino, Switzerland
Casa Locarno
“Casa Locarno is something like our business card turned into a house: sustainability, a prefabricated wood construction, frameless corner glazing... we did set OOW’s bar really high, right down to the last detail and in one of our first projects!”
Cocoon in a Loft. A play ofMaterials and space.
Loft Wedding
“The cocoon is the highlight – almost a thousand different parts cut to size fully automatically so that they fit together perfectly – that’s how digital fabrication works!”
Hidden Idyll
Living at Leopoldplatz
In the heart of Wedding, a residential oasis surrounded by greenery is being created on a former commercial site. In the immediate vicinity of the lively Leopoldplatz, our new residential building occupies a spacious property, quiet and hidden behind the first row of houses on Nazarethkirchstrasse.
Conrade. Clarity. Radical.
7047 // Concrete
“Minimalism as a design decision means maximum effort in terms of details.”
Our story in numbers
Inside OOW
Architecture as Architecture
How do we think architecture? What are our influences? What is our day-to-day work looking like? Three of our architects give you some insights.
Meri Siren
"Elegant proportions, high-end materials and sophisticated details: my ingredients for a perfect building. The art of architecture is to create designs that are both functional and well designed."
Nicolas Fabre
"My idea of a perfect building? It's a place to retreat from the day-to-day retrace. I imagine a patio building with a large tree in it's courtyard, sitting on a bench beneath it."
Robert Blödorn
"Es ist irre, wie schnell sich ein Projekt verändern kann. Aber es ist unglaublich spannend, welche verschiedene Ideen man für ein Gebäude entwickeln kann und wie unterschiedlich sich Räume im Prinzip nutzen lassen. "
Leda Kremmyda
"It's thrilling to visit one of your own designs and realize how well it works."
Carsten Bergner
"Wenn Entwürfe wirklich umgesetzt werden, kommen unsere Gedankenspiele auch beim Menschen an. Und erst dann ist der Sinn von Architektur erfüllt, finde ich."
designyougo rebrands to OOW!
After 10 successful years as designyougo we are ready for a new, powerful name. Three letters that are a perfect match for us – OOW!
How to pronounce OOW?
Change is a big part in the life of an architect. To paraphrase our mentor, Norman Foster: “The only constant is change.” Every day we change the city and the lives of its inhabitants a little bit. So we also change – and are giving ourselves a new name!
What remains unchanged are the strengths we have developed over the last 10 years, which will also be the basis for OOW: our passion, our way of working and our experienced team giving its best every day. We look forward to great projects with our great customers!
