Erik Behrens

Erik Behrens (born 14 May 1975) is a German architect and designer.

Early life and career In 2006, Behrens moved to London to join EDAW, where he worked on the design of the London 2012 Olympic Park and its legacy development. His projects have received several national and international awards, including the International Architecture Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum.

In 2020, the Al Wahda Arches in Qatar, a 100-meter-tall immersive public artwork, was completed. Behrens served as AECOM’s architecture design director and project leader for the renovation of the Waterloo International railway station. In Saudi Arabia, he is leading the design for an equestrian village in the AlUla desert.

Behrens is the architect of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, the longest Cable-stayed bridge in North America. Additionally, he and James Haig Streeter were commissioned by the Qatar Foundation to design Oxygen Park in Doha.

Awards 2022 Chicago Athenaeum International Award – Al Wahda Arches 2021: Chicago Athenaeum International Award – Oxygen Park 2018: ENR Best Global Projects Award – Lusail Expressway 2017: Finalist World Architecture Festival – Oxygen Park 2016: World Architecture News Future Project Award 2016 – Underwater Domes of Istanbul, Turkey 2008: Shenzhen-Hong Kong Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture – Greenmetropolis 2008: European Urban and Regional Planning Award- Greenmetropolis

Publications Archplus, 168 Chinesischer Hochgeschwindigkeits Urbanismus, 2004, ISSN 0587-3452 MADA in Model, 2005, ISBN 7-80177-305-5/TU Urban Landscape 07, Fuck the Context, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, 2007 Updating Germany 100 Projects for a Better Future, Hatje Cantz Verla, 2008, ISBN 978-3775722629 New Geographies, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2008, ISBN 978-1-934510-13-1. Stadt Bauen, Deutscher Stadtebaupreis 2008, Jovis, ISBN 978-3-939633-88-4 Ecological Urbanism, Co-published by Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Lars Muller Publishers, 2016, ISBN 978-3037784679 Territories, Die Stadt aus der Landschaft entwickeln, Birkhauser, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7643-8844-7

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