Since its founding in 1989, the Berlin practice of Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton has successfully combined a scrupulous attention to programs with an artistic bent that translates into an unprejudiced use of colour in large corporate and cultural buildings designed, too, with a strong caring for the environment, as we can see in the three buildings presented in detail in this issue of Arquitectura Viva: The District M9 Museum in Mestre (Venice), the enlarged Experimenta Museum in Heilbronn (Germany), and the student apartments in Hamburg.

Since its founding in 1989, the Berlin practice of Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton has successfully combined a scrupulous attention to programs with an artistic bent that translates into an unprejudiced use of colour in large corporate and cultural buildings designed, too, with a strong caring for the environment, as we can see in the three buildings presented in detail in this issue of Arquitectura Viva: The District M9 Museum in Mestre (Venice), the enlarged Experimenta Museum in Heilbronn (Germany), and the student apartments in Hamburg.