Advanced search functions on the Detail homepage

Filters, Map, Free Text: Finding Projects Made Easy

 - Jakob Schoof

It's nothing new: you're looking for a specific post on the Detail homepage, or you want to find out what interesting projects await you at your next holiday destination. With the search functions on the Detail homepage, neither of these poses any more difficulty.

Filters, Map, Free Text: Finding Projects Made Easy
New on detail.de: All projects ever published on Detail are now accessible via a geographical search on the homepage. © Detail

Many Detail readers are familiar with this problem: in which issue was the story about Jean Nouvel’s skyscraper La Marseillaise actually published? And which issue featured that interesting technical article on the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin? Fortunately, for more than ten years it has been possible to search through all the projects appearing online – provided you have a Detail online subscription.

Suchfilter erlauben die gezielte Suche nach Gebäudetypologien, Nutzungen und Spezialthemen.
Suchfilter erlauben die gezielte Suche nach Gebäudetypologien, Nutzungen und Spezialthemen. © Detail

We have now significantly expanded our search functions once again. At https://www.detail.de/suche?type=projects, all the projects that have appeared in Detail since 1961 can be found in three different ways: via a free-text search, search filters, and a geographical search function in a map tool. The free-text search works like Google and other search engines. Using search filters, buildings can be categorised by typology, construction projects such as new-builds or refurbishments, or subjects such as high-rise buildings and sustainable construction.  

The map tool is brand new on detail.de: clicking on the pin icon on the far right will take you to a map of Europe that you can zoom in on and out of as you wish. Alternatively, you can navigate the map by clicking on the black dots. With Detail’s map search, nothing stands in the way of your next architectural journey! 


  • View from the new atrium. For the first time, the central stairwell with lift provides all tenants with direct access to their offices and laboratories.

    Added Storeys Instead of Demolition 

    In Uppsala, Sweden, a 1970s office complex was facing demolition. Following its unexpected rescue, it has become a pilot project for circular construction. Anders Tväråna of White Arkitekter relatess how Lumi also became an economic success.

  • Multi-purpose Hall Ingerkingen near Biberach

    A semblance of broken porcelain with its repaired parts remaining visible forever: With their multi-purpose hall, Atelier Kaiser Shen demonstrate how construction in an existing context can be represented within the image of the building, despite comprehensive modernisation.

  • The expansion responds to the grey concrete surfaces of the three neighbouring school buildings by displaying strong colourful accents.

    School Expansion in Davos

    Using resources sparingly is not only expressed by exteriors. The school building by Cura Architekten appears new, yet the existing building fabric was comprehensively maintained beneath the new envelope.

  • Mei architects and planners completed the Schiecentrale in Rotterdam’s Lloydkwartier in 2008. The practice is still based in the building complex to this day, and Robert Winkel also lives there.

    „We're interested in people who have ideals" 

    What qualifies architects as project developers? What values enable them to survive in the highly competitive real-estate industry? How can architectural practices use digital data to regain influence over construction processes? We speak to Robert Winkel, who works in architecture and real estate.

  • View from the entrance of two learning centres and the adjoining sports hall on the school grounds

    A Place for Personal Development  

    Classrooms are a thing of the past. At Ammersee, pupils learn in open clusters overlooking the lake. Dettinger Architects designed the school building using timber-frame construction.

  • View of the art district and the adjacent fjord landscape

    Art Moves to the Countryside 

    How an old commercial complex by the fjord became a branch of the Statens Museum, and why it also houses a kayak storage facility with a workshop.