ATP architects engineers is an international

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

- and

engineering Engineering is the use of scientific method, scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad rang ...

office for

integrated design Integrated design is a comprehensive holistic approach to design which brings together specialisms usually considered separately. It attempts to take into consideration all the factors and modulations necessary to a decision making process. A few ...

with a headquarters in

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and further design offices in

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Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

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Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...

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Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

and

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...

Organization

ATP architects engineers (ATP) is specialized in

. The office has had an interdisciplinary design culture since 1976. In 2013,

Bureau Veritas Bureau Veritas is a French company specialized in testing, inspection and certification founded in 1828. It operates in a variety of sectors, including building and infrastructure (27% of revenue), agri-food and commodities (23% of revenue), ...

certified ATP's integrated design processes as meeting the

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standard. With more than 1200 employees from 38 countries and thirteen operative integrated design companies in 2023, ATP is one of

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’s largest

- and engineering companies. The office is active in the areas of

interior design Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to achieve a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing environment for the people using the space. An interior designer is someone who plans, researches, coordina ...

structural engineering Structural engineering is a sub-discipline of civil engineering in which structural engineers are trained to design the 'bones and muscles' that create the form and shape of man-made structures. Structural engineers also must understand and cal ...

mechanical Mechanical may refer to: Machine * Machine (mechanical), a system of mechanisms that shape the actuator input to achieve a specific application of output forces and movement * Mechanical calculator, a device used to perform the basic operations of ...

and

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

(TGA) and site supervision (ÖBA). The focus of its activities is integrated design for the

retail Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers. A retailer purchases goods in large quantities from manufacturers, directly or through a wholesaler, and t ...

and

industrial sectors In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in construction. ...

as well as for the

real estate Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more general ...

leisure Leisure has often been defined as a quality of experience or as free time. Free time is time spent away from business, work, job hunting, domestic chores, and education, as well as necessary activities such as eating and sleeping. Leisure ...

tourism Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring (disambiguation), touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tour (disambiguation), tours. Th ...

and health sectors. Further areas of business include process planning for the

food industry The food industry is a complex, global network of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world's population. The food industry today has become highly diversified, with manufacturing ranging from small, traditiona ...

(foodfab),

real estate development Real estate development, or property development, is a business process, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw Real Estate, land and the sale of developed land or parcels ...

consulting (Redserve),

Building engineering physics The term building engineering physics was introduced in a report released in January 2010 commissioned by The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAeng). The report, entitled ''Engineering a Low Carbon Built Environment: The Discipline of Building Engi ...

research Research is "creativity, creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular att ...

and

certification Certification is the provision by an independent body of written assurance (a certificate) that the product, service or system in question meets specific requirements. It is the formal attestation or confirmation of certain characteristics of a ...

in the area of

sustainability Specific definitions of sustainability are difficult to agree on and have varied in the literature and over time. The concept of sustainability can be used to guide decisions at the global, national, and individual levels (e.g. sustainable livi ...

(ATP sustain),

in the areas of

and integrated design (ATP sphere) and integrated IT solutions for design and business processes (Plandata). Structured as a corporate group, ATP is led by a four-man executive board. The

CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

is Christoph M. Achammer. The shares in ATP Planungs- und Beteiligungs AG are owned by the partners involved in the active management of the various companies. The

Joint Stock Company A joint-stock company is a business entity in which shares of the company's stock can be bought and sold by shareholders. Each shareholder owns company stock in proportion, evidenced by their shares (certificates of ownership). Shareholders are ...

ATP has a participation model in which more than 20% of employees are partners, associate partners or associates and, as such, share in the success of the company. There are currently nine partners, 45 associate partners and 104 associates. Central to ATP's design philosophy is the creation of lifecycle-oriented and sustainable buildings with the support of integrated design methods. In his role as Professor of Industrial Building and Interdisciplinary Planning at

Vienna University of Technology TU Wien (TUW; german: Technische Universität Wien; still known in English as the Vienna University of Technology from 1975–2014) is one of the major universities in Vienna, Austria. The university finds high international and domestic recogn ...

, Christoph M. Achammer is committed to the exchange of practice-oriented knowledge and theoretical basic research in the area of integrated design. ATP is a founder and member of the board of IG Lebenszyklus Hochbau and, through Christoph M. Achammer, is involved in the development of guidelines for public and private clients. ATP is also a founding member of the DGNB e.V., the German Sustainable Building Council, and the Austrian Sustainable Building Council. ATP is a member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Industriebau e.v., the International Council of Shopping Centers, the ACSC (Austria) and the GCSC (Germany). As an organizing partner of the

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, ATP was responsible for drawing up the program of the “Alpbach Architecture Forum” between 2001 and 2005.

History

In 1951, the

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

(ETH) Fred Achammer opened an

office in

which focused on building industrial and logistics buildings in the German-speaking Region. In 1976, Fred Achammer, the construction engineer Sigfrid Tritthart and the mechanical engineer Gunther Fröhlich formed a partnership whose objective was to act as an

company offering integrated design based on the Anglo-American model. The office was initially known as ATP Achammer Tritthart Fröhlich (ATF) and subsequently, after the death of Gunther Fröhlich in 1986, as AT Achammer Tritthart Generalplaner. In 1985 ATP expanded to

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and, in 1987, Christoph M. Achammer succeeded his father, becoming the partner responsible for architecture in 1989. At that time, ATP Achammer Tritthart and Partner had 80 employees. Branch offices were established in

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

and

. In 1999, ATP became a

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.History
ATP architects engineers. In 2002, Christoph M. Achammer was appointed

Professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who pr ...

of Industrial Building and Interdisciplinary Planning at Vienna University of Technology. In 2007, the Frankfurt-based N+M architects (formerly Novotny Mähner), specialists in high-rise buildings and the health sector, became an active member of the ATP Group. In 2008, the office was renamed ATP architects engineers. The subsequent years saw the creation of the research companies ATP sphere and ATP sustain. In 2009, the office of N+M architects was renamed in ATP N+M Architekten und Ingenieure GmbH. In 2010, ATP integrated the Zurich-based

residential building A residential area is a land used in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas. Housing may vary significantly between, and through, residential areas. These include single-family housing, multi-family residen ...

specialists, kfp architekten ag. In 2011 a

joint venture A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance. Companies typically pursue joint ventures for one of four reasons: to acces ...

with Tsimailo Lyashenko & Partners Architectural Bureau (TLP) led to the establishment of a Moscow office. The ATP Academy, an internal training program for

was set up in 2013. In 2014, the partnership with Frankfurt resulted in the creation of the

health sector Health, according to the World Health Organization, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity".World Health Organization. (2006)''Constitution of the World Health Organiza ...

design company ATP health. In the same year, the office of ATP N+M Architekten und Ingenieure GmbH was renamed as ATP Frankfurt. ATP architects engineers is one of

’s largest

offices. The annual BD online survey rated ATP as one of the three largest architectural offices in

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in 2011, 2012 and 2014. In the 2012 ranking, ATP was named the world’s sixth largest designer of shopping architecture.

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put ATP in first place in the “designing for industry” category in January 2014.

Buildings and projects

(Selection) * Urban District ''Im Lenz'',

Lenzburg Lenzburg is a town in the central region of the Swiss canton Aargau and is the capital of the Lenzburg District. The town, founded in the Middle Ages, lies in the Seetal valley, about 3 kilometres south of the Aare river. Lenzburg and the neigh ...

(Switzerland), 2018 * Urban Development Project ''Schwabinger Tor'',

(Germany), 2017 * IFAM Fraunhofer Research Building IFAM,

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

(Germany), 2014 *

BASF BASF Societas Europaea, SE () is a German multinational corporation, multinational chemical company and the List of largest chemical producers, largest chemical producer in the world. Its headquarters is located in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The ...

Administration Building,

Ludwigshafen Ludwigshafen, officially Ludwigshafen am Rhein (; meaning " Ludwig's Port upon Rhine"), is a city in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on the river Rhine, opposite Mannheim. With Mannheim, Heidelberg, and the surrounding region, it form ...

(Germany), 2014 * Teaching and Research Building for the Faculties of Architecture and Engineering Science of the

University of Innsbruck The University of Innsbruck (german: Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck; la, Universitas Leopoldino Franciscea) is a public research university in Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol, founded on October 15, 1669. ...

(Austria), 2014 * General Refurbishment of the ''Westpfalz-Klinikum'',

Kaiserslautern Kaiserslautern (; Palatinate German: ''Lautre'') is a city in southwest Germany, located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate Forest. The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfur ...

(Germany), 2013 * General Refurbishment of the ''

Shopping City Süd The Shopping City Süd (SCS) is a shopping centre located in Vösendorf and Wiener Neudorf, south of Vienna, Austria. With a leasable area of , it is the biggest shopping mall in Austria. It contains over 330 shops and has around 5,000 employee ...

'' Shopping Center during normal operations,

Vösendorf Vösendorf (Central Bavarian: ''Vesnduaf'') is a town in the district of Mödling in the Austrian state of Lower Austria Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine state ...

(Austria), 2013 * General Refurbishment of the Mannheim University Clinic,

Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 2 ...

(Germany), 2013 * G3 Shopping Resort, Gerasdorf near

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(Austria), 2012 * ''aspern IQ'' Technology Center,

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(Austria), 2012 – Austria's first plus energy building * Hilti P4plus Production and Logistics Building, Thüringen (Austria), 2009 – Austria's first ÖGNI (Silver) certified industrial building * Westgate Shopping Center,

(Croatia), 2009 * ''Atrio'' Shopping Center (SES),

Villach Villach (; sl, Beljak; it, Villaco; fur, Vilac) is the seventh-largest city in Austria and the second-largest in the federal state of Carinthia. It is an important traffic junction for southern Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region. , the po ...

(Austria), 2007 – ICSC Best of the Best-Award 2009 * ''Sillpark'' Shopping Center,

(Austria), 2007 * Corporate Architecture for

EDEKA The Edeka Group is the largest German supermarket corporation , holding a market share of 20.3%. Founded in 1907, it consists today of several co-operatives of independent supermarkets all operating under the umbrella organisation ''Edeka Zen ...

Süd (Germany), 2006, 2012 *

Sandoz Novartis AG is a Swiss-American multinational pharmaceutical corporation based in Basel, Switzerland and Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (global research).name="novartis.com">https://www.novartis.com/research-development/research-loc ...

Office and Logistics Building,

Kundl Kundl is a market town in the Kufstein district in the Austrian state of Tyrol. Geography Kundl is situated 7.70 km west of Wörgl as well as 18.30 km southwest of Kufstein at the southern side of the Inn River and is made up of 4 part ...

(Austria), 2003 *

ams AMS or Ams may refer to: Organizations Companies * Alenia Marconi Systems * American Management Systems * AMS (Advanced Music Systems) * ams AG, semiconductor manufacturer * AMS Pictures * Auxiliary Medical Services Educational institutions * A ...

Microchip Plant,

Graz Graz (; sl, Gradec) is the capital city of the Austrian state of Styria and second-largest city in Austria after Vienna. As of 1 January 2021, it had a population of 331,562 (294,236 of whom had principal-residence status). In 2018, the popul ...

Unterpremstätten Unterpremstätten is a former municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Premstätten Premstätten is since January 2016 a new ...

(Austria), 2001 *

Infineon Infineon Technologies AG is a German semiconductor manufacturer founded in 1999, when the semiconductor operations of the former parent company Siemens AG were spun off. Infineon has about 50,280 employees and is one of the ten largest semicond ...

Administration Building,

(Austria), 2001 * '' Millennium Tower'',

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(Austria), 1999 – Austria's highest office building at the time (and now the second) * Corporate Architecture for Interspar shopping centers (Austria), 1997 - heute * ''SIMEC Siemens Microelectronics Center'' (heute

(Germany), 1995

Project images

ATP Millennium Tower.jpg, Millennium Tower, Vienna, Austria's highest office building at the time of its completion ATP Atrio.jpg, SES-Shoppingcenter ATRIO, Villach, 2007, The World's Most Sustainable Shopping Center, ICSC Best-of-the-Best-Award 2009 ATP Hilti P4plus.jpg,

Hilti Hilti Corporation (Hilti Aktiengesellschaft or Hilti AG, also known as Hilti Group) is a Liechtensteiner multinational company that develops, manufactures, and markets products for the construction, building maintenance, energy and manufactur ...

P4plus Production and Logistics Building, Thüringen/Vbg., Austria's first ÖGNI (silver) certified industrial building ATP aspernIQ Kuball.jpg, aspern IQ Technology Center, Vienna, Austria's first plus energy building ATP G3 Shopping Resort.jpg, G3 Shopping Resort, Gerasdorf near Vienna

Awards

Since 1990 ATP has won around 55 competitions and received prizes and awards for

sustainable design Environmentally sustainable design (also called environmentally conscious design, eco-design, etc.) is the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, and services to comply with the principles of ecological sustainability ...

and

corporate social responsibility Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a form of international private business self-regulation which aims to contribute to societal goals of a philanthropic, activist, or charitable nature by engaging in or supporting volunteering or ethicall ...

. 2014 ATP received gold in the category architecture and was named "Architect of the Year" at the 7th International Design Award in L.A., USA.IDA 7th International Design Award
retrieved 13 October 2014.

References

ATP architects engineers

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Literature

* ''BIM – Aus der Praxis''. Architektur Aktuell Special Issue, Sept. 2011
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atp.ag) * ''ATP 04 - Neue Prozesse im Planen und Bauen.'' Springer Verlag, Vienna/ New York 2003, .

in the catalogue of the

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* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20040928153503/http://bibliographie.onb.ac.at/biblio/content/200405/720-1.html Literature by and about ATPin the catalogue of the

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External links

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