Coop Himmelb(l)au (1968-) is a cooperative architectural design firm primarily located in Vienna, Austria and which now also maintains offices in Los Angeles, United States and Guadalajara, Mexico. The firm's name Himmelblau translates from German into English as 'sky blue', Himmelbau translates to 'heaven construction'. The term Coop in the title is pronounced as is the business abbreviation for cooperative, co-op.

Coop Himmelblau was founded by Wolf Prix, Helmut Swiczinsky and Michael Holzer and gained international acclaim alongside Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry and Daniel Libeskind with the 1988 exhibition, "Deconstructivist Architecture" at the Museum of Modern Art. Their work ranges from commercial buildings to residential projects.

Selected projects

• The European Central Bank in Frankfurt (Under construction)
• Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France (Under construction)
• Hotel - 55th Street & 8th Avenue, New York City (proposed)
• Akron Art Museum addition (2007)
• Los Angeles Area High School #9, California, USA (2002–2008)
• BMW World (BMW Welt) Munich, Germany (2001–2007)
• Great Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt (2002–2003)
• Arteplage in Biel/Bienne from Swiss Expo.02
• The Media Pavilion at the 6th International Architecture Exhibition, Biennale di Venezia (1995)
• UFA-Cinema Center in Dresden (1993–98)
• Groninger Museum, Groningen (city), Netherlands (1993–1994)
• Academy of Fine Arts Munich (1992/2002-2005)
• Gasometer, Vienna, Austria (1999-2001)

Awards

• American Architecture Awards 2005
• The Chicago Athenaeum, Illinois
• Akron Art Museum, Ohio, USA (2001-2006)
• Annie Spink Award for excellence in architectural education, RIBA, London, UK, 2004
• Gold Medal for merits to the federal state of Vienna, Austria 2002

See also

• Deconstructivism

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