Sauerbruch Hutton is an architecture, urban planning and design practice founded in London in 1989 by Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton and now based in Berlin, where it is led by the two founders and Juan Lucas Young. Its early commissions in London were small, such as the L House, a Victorian terrace that was the practice's first use of applied colour to make cramped spaces feel larger. Colour as a building material and sustainable design became the two threads of its work, which spans Germany, the United Kingdom, Finland, France, Italy, Switzerland and Luxembourg.
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The GSW Headquarters in Berlin (1999), near Checkpoint Charlie, was the first tall building in the city after the fall of the Wall; its one-metre-deep double façade on the west, with coloured blinds, and its "flying roof" ventilate the offices naturally. The German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt), Dessau (2005), set a benchmark for sustainable office buildings, with a serpentine plan to be experienced on foot. Museum Brandhorst in Munich (2009) is clad in 36,000 vertical ceramic rods in 23 coloured glazes.
