What Staubach does

staubach-kuckertz Architekten, operating under the brand "Staubach," is a Berlin-based architecture practice with approximately six employees. The firm specializes in architectural and urban design services across three distinct practice areas: public space infrastructure and street furniture, transit facility design, and theatrical stage set design. The portfolio includes railway platform canopies (Hochbahnsteige) and operational buildings for Rheinbahn AG in Düsseldorf, railway station designs for the cities of Gelsenkirchen (Bahnhof Veltins Arena) and Essen (Station Zollverein), escalator canopies (Fahrtreppenüberdachung) for Stadtwerke Bonn, a public bicycle expressway in Berlin on the former Stammbahn corridor, and a bridge design (Nahebrücke) for Bad Kreuznach. The firm also designs street furniture product collections including Avenue, Corniche, Avus, and Foursider for Wall AG, as well as extensive catalogs of urban furniture (Mood, Gea, Riva, Atena, and others) for Italian manufacturer metalco S.r.L.

The firm operates a project-based business model delivering custom architectural design services to public-sector clients including German municipal governments (Stadt Gelsenkirchen, Stadt Essen, Bad Kreuznach), public transit authorities (Rheinbahn AG, Stadtwerke Bonn), and theatrical institutions (Residenz Theater München, Slovak National Theatre Bratislava). Pricing is not publicly disclosed and no revenue figures are available. Go-to-market is portfolio-driven, with the company website functioning as a visual project gallery and direct project engagement with institutional clients serving as the primary distribution mechanism. Geographic reach spans Germany as the primary market, with international projects in Slovakia (stage sets) and Egypt (Cairo street furniture via the Corniche line).

The firm is privately held with no disclosed ownership structure, no venture capital, private equity, or institutional investment signals, and no public-market indicators. The firm collaborates with manufacturing partners—most prominently Wall AG (now JCDecaux) and metalco S.r.L.—to realize and deploy its designs in the public realm, with IL CASONE S.p.A. as a secondary partner on specific stone/ceramic products. No technology platform, mobile application, or API is offered; the offering is purely professional architectural design services.

Name

Staubach

Legal name

staubach-kuckertz Architekten

Website

https://staubach-kuckertz.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

staubach-kuckertz Architekten is a Berlin-based architecture practice of approximately six employees specializing in public space design, transit infrastructure, street furniture collections, and theatrical stage sets for German municipalities, transit authorities, and theaters.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (541310), Other Specialized Design Services (54149), Interior Design Services (54141)

akta.pro primary industry

Industrial/Product & Furniture Design (BPAHAKAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Transportation & Infrastructure Planning (BPAHAKAF), Wayfinding, Signage & Environmental Graphic Design (BPAHAKAN)

Keywords

• Architectural design services
• Public transit design
• Street furniture design
• Theater stage design
• Urban infrastructure design

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

staubach-kuckertz Architekten is a Berlin-based architecture firm offering specialized design services for public infrastructure, including street furniture, transit stations and platforms, and theatrical stage sets. The firm delivers custom design solutions for municipal governments, public transit authorities, and cultural institutions across Germany and Central Europe.

Product overview

staubach-kuckertz Architekten is an architectural firm offering specialized design services across three main domains: street furniture and urban installations (including products like Avenue for Wall AG, public restrooms for JCDecaux, and bike infrastructure), public transit infrastructure (including platform canopies and railway stations for Rheinbahn AG and various German cities), and theatrical stage sets (for venues including Residenz Theater Munich and Slovak National Theatre Bratislava). The firm collaborates with manufacturers like metalco S.r.L. and Wall AG to realize public design projects throughout Germany and Central Europe.

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Products and services

• Street Furniture Design Custom design of street furniture collections for public spaces, including the Avenue, Mood, and Riva collections, produced in collaboration with manufacturers such as Wall AG/JCDecaux, metalco S.r.L., and IL CASONE S.p.A. Designed for municipal governments and public-sector clients seeking site-specific urban infrastructure.
• Transit Infrastructure Design Architectural design of transit-related infrastructure including platform canopies (Hochbahnsteige), escalator canopies (Fahrtreppenüberdachung), station design (Bahnhof Veltins Arena), and cycle route infrastructure (Fahrradschnellweg Stammbahn). Delivered for public transit authorities such as Rheinbahn AG and municipal clients including Stadt Gelsenkirchen and Stadt Essen.
• Theater Stage Set Design Custom scenography and stage set design for theatrical productions, providing cultural institutions and theaters with bespoke staging solutions tailored to individual productions.

Named customers8 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Wall AG / Wall / JCDecauxcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorOngoing collaboration on street furniture designs including Avenue, Corniche, Avus, and Foursider product lines. Projects span multiple German cities including Düsseldorf, Lübeck, and Wiesbaden. Wall AG operates as an outdoor advertising and street furniture company.
• metalco S.r.L.coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorItalian manufacturer collaboration for street furniture and urban design products including Mood, Gea, Riva, Atena, Lettera, Ermes, Menes, Elena, Khepri, Apollo, Flom, Box, Piazza, V, Max, Onice, Rubino, Gitter, Pad, Set, Pencil, Triangle, Cup, Rainless, Boa, Bikebox, and Athon product lines.
• IL CASONE S.p.A.minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCollaboration on Piazza product line featuring stone/ceramic urban furniture.

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Max Dudler: German architectural practice with public-sector and cultural-building commissions. Comparable as another German competitor in architectural services for institutional and civic clients, though oriented to larger buildings and urban-scale projects.
• Wall AG (JCDecaux): Global street furniture and outdoor advertising leader and a direct ongoing partner of staubach-kuckertz on Avenue, Corniche, Avus, and Foursider collections. Comparable as the dominant incumbent in the same street-furniture design space, though operating at vastly larger scale with in-house design teams.
• HPP Architekten: Established German architecture firm active in public and transit-sector projects. Comparable as a German competitor in architectural services for civic and infrastructure clients, though broader in scope and substantially larger.
• Ingenhoven Architects: Internationally recognized German architecture studio with public-building and infrastructure projects. Comparable in offering architectural design for civic and institutional clients, though generally oriented to larger flagship commissions.
• gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners: Major German architectural practice with extensive public infrastructure and transit station portfolio. Comparable on the architectural services axis, especially transportation-related public buildings, but at significantly larger scale and broader scope.

Regional players

• IL CASONE S.p.A. Italian stone and ceramic urban furniture maker that partnered on the Piazza collection. Operates in the same street-furniture category but is Italy-centric and primarily a material supplier rather than architectural designer.

Direct peers

• metalco S.r.L. Italian street furniture manufacturer collaborating with staubach-kuckertz across 20+ product lines (Mood, Gea, Riva, Atena, Lettera, Ermes, etc.). Comparable as a complementary channel in the same urban-furniture product design ecosystem, though primarily a manufacturer rather than design studio.
• Benthem Crouwel Architects: Dutch architecture firm known for transit stations and public infrastructure design (e.g., Rotterdam Centraal, Stuttgart 21). Closely comparable on the transit/transportation infrastructure design niche that staubach-kuckertz also serves.
• Hegger + Hegger Architekten: German architectural practice focused on public buildings, infrastructure, and urban design. Comparable as a similarly sized German competitor in civic and transit-related architectural commissions.

Emerging players

• Raumlabor Berlin: Berlin-based collective working at the intersection of architecture, urban design, and public-space interventions. Comparable on the urban-design and public-space experimentation axis relevant to staubach-kuckertz's transit and street-furniture work.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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