
JSWD is a Cologne-based architecture firm founded in 2000, with additional offices in Berlin and Tampa. Led by a diverse team of partners, the firm employs around 240 professionals from over 30 countries. JSWD has completed more than 60 architectural projects across Germany and Europe, ranging from cultural venues and residential buildings to healthcare facilities and adaptive reuse developments. As both architects and urban planners, JSWD prioritizes sustainable design, material excellence, and project responsibility—from concept to final handover. Collaboration with international architecture firms enhances their creative and technical perspectives. Their design philosophy centers on conceptual clarity, using minimal yet well-defined elements to create distinctive structural and spatial compositions that reflect users’ identities through corporate architecture.