Behnisch Architekten is a German architecture practice based in Stuttgart, founded in 1989 by Stefan Behnisch, son of the architect Günter Behnisch, whose own firm Behnisch & Partner designed the Munich Olympic Park and the parliament building in Bonn. It began as a city branch of his father's office and, after several changes in structure and name, took its present name in 2005. Under Stefan Behnisch it grew into an international practice, with offices in Stuttgart, Boston, Munich and Los Angeles, and a long list of schools, offices, laboratories, spas and public buildings in Europe and North America.
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The Ozeaneum in Stralsund (2008), a building of the German Oceanographic Museum on the Baltic harbour, drew more than 900,000 visitors in its first year and won the European Museum of the Year Award in 2010. In Hamburg the practice built the Unilever-Haus (2009), headquarters for Unilever in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and the Marco Polo Tower (2010). The Max Aicher Arena in Inzell (2011), a speed-skating stadium designed with Pohl Architekten, followed.
