Nordrhein Westfalen.Projects 8

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1 Nordrhein Westfalen Projects 8 Created 19-Feb-16 By ural Edit, London, United Kingdom Zollverein Design School Essen, SANAA university Coal Washing Plant Zollverein World Heritage Site 3 Museum Folkwang Essen, David Chipperfield s museum Glückaufhaus 6 Aachen University Hospital 7 Aachen, Weber, Brand und Partner hospital, laboratorium, university 4 Essen, Fritz Schupp culture, industry Essen, Bahl Architekten cinema, office Essen, OMA - Rem Koolhaas renovation, museum, industry 2 Sankt Fronleichnam 8 Aachen, Rudolf Schwarz church 5 Annakirche 9 Düren, Rudolf Schwarz church 1

2 photo: Thomas Mayer photo: Thomas Mayer Zollverein Design School Gelsenkirchener Straße Essen As the first new building on the grounds of the Zollverein World Heritage site, the Zollverein School will provide ground-breaking impetus for the future transformation of the former industrial complex into a design location with international reach The building will also enhance the urban planning value of the surrounding districts in the northern part of Essen and the Ruhr The sharp-edged bright, light grey 34 high cube looks both powerful and lightweight at the same time The design is characterized by extreme purism The formal closed appearance of the over-sized cube is broken up by the irregular arrangement of windows It comprises four storeys (four levels and a rooftop garden) of different ceiling heights There are few supporting structures and all of the building technology is hidden in the walls and ceilings As a Far Eastern counterpart to the austere Bauhaus style, the building radiates an almost poetic power photo: Thomas Mayer SANAA Entwicklungsgesellschaft Zollverein mbh MI_MOA There are guided tours on every last Friday in the month at 4 pm, lasting 1 hour, and will cover all storeys including the roof garden Costs are 6 per person Because guided tours are limited to 20 people, you are kindly requested to register Please send an to wiegel@zeitsprung-agenturde Visits for groups over 20 people can be arranged separately The ground floor of the building is open to public form Monday to Friday between 8 am and 6 pm Closed on Saturday & Sunday From Essen central station, use the Tramway 107 and get off at stop Zollverein The nearest airport is Duesseldorf 2

3 photo: Thomas Mayer / Zollverein database photo: Thomas Mayer / Zollverein database Coal Washing Plant Gelsenkirchener Str 181 D Essen After years of cleaning up the buildings, in 2001 the plan started to refurbish and reuse the coal washing plant, and create a special programme for the future Ruhr Museum Now it houses the Zollverein visitor centre The entrance presented a particular challenge because there was no main entrance during the period in which the pit was in operation, and it had to do justice to the new usage The architects designed a new gangway in the open air in front of the building, supported solely by a single v-shaped pillar With 243 m height it s it the highest open-air moving staircase in The gangway leads visitors from the plaza to the visitor centre in the foyer at the 24-m level From here, on their way into the exhibition, guests pass the impressive machinery with screening drums, dosing wagons and jigging sieves, water basins and conveyor belts, to the imposing bunker which was once used for storing raw coal -now opened up and serves as a stairway to the levels below photo: Thomas Willemsen / Zollverein database Floor area/size m² Main designer, OMA - Rem Koolhaas Hans Krabel Heinrich Böll Entwicklungsgesellschaft Zollverein Naomi April-November, daily December-March, Sat-Thurs , Fri Guided Industrial History Tours available A42 from Dortmund exit 15: Gelsenkirchen HesslerTurn left to Katernberg/Stoppenberg Continue in Katernberger Straße Turn right into Gelsenkirchener Straße A52 from Düsseldorf/A40 from Duisburg/Dortmund exit 26: Essen-Frillendorf Go to Stoppenberg/Katernberg Turn right into Ernestinestraße The Zollverein is indicated by brown & white signs Public transp: 107 culture tram, with 60 cultural sights to see along the way From Essen Central Station: tram 107 direction Gelsenkirchen HBF 3

4 photo: Rainer Halama photo: Rainer Halama Zollverein World Heritage Site Gelsenkirchener Str Essen The Zollverein World Heritage Site also known as the 'world's most beautiful coal mine today' the most famous industrial monument and centre of the creative industry in the Ruhr area 100 hectares of land in the north of Essen, Shaft XII, Shaft 1/2/8 and the Zollverein coking plant In 1847 the first shaft was sunk, and in 1986 the last coal was brought to the surface In 1993 the coking plant was closed down, and in 2000 the buildings and equipment were officially listed In 2001 Zollverein was inscribed into the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites Our watchword is: preservation through new usage Zollverein offers a huge range of attractions History, culture, creativity, events, gastronomy, leisure activities - all this presents Zollverein its around one million visitors per year Fritz Schupp Zollverein Foundation AndyRoberts photo: Stahlkocher (Ruhr Museum shuts at 1800 between October and March) Closed Christmas Eve and New-Years Eve You can reach us with the tram culture line 107, stop at "Zollverein", from the direction of the main station and from Gelsenkirchen From Oberhausen and Gelsenkrichen with the S-Bahn line 2, get off at the station "Zollverein Nord" and follow the yellow canaries of the design avenue "Designallee" to Zollverein If you are visiting us by car, there is free parking availabe at P A1, P A2, P B1 and P C as well as the temporary parking possibility P B2 on Shaft 1/2/8 (From Project Web Site) 4

5 photo: Courtesy of David Chipperfield s photo: Courtesy of David Chipperfield s Museum Folkwang Museumsplatz Essen The new building complements the list old building of the Museum Folkwang, conserving its autonomy and is a continuation of its architectural principles with an ensemble of six structures and four interior courtyards, gardens and corridors Public access areas are connected to the existing exhibition rooms without any change in level A large open stairway leads from Bismarckstraße into the new entrance hall, conceived as open interior courtyard with café and restaurant as well as a museum bookstore and is protected from the street by a glass façade The new Museum Folkwang offers a varied series of rooms with considerable natural light for the exhibition areas, as well as library and reading room, a multi-function hall for lectures and events, depots and restoration workshops The new building is oriented towards the Essen city center and forms, in harmony with the neighbouring Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, a new urban landscape accent photo: Courtesy of David Chipperfield s Floor area/size m² David Chipperfield s MRND Collection Tue to Sun 10 am to 6 pm Fri to 1030 pm Monday closed Open: Good Friday, May 1st, Ascension Day, June 3rd, November 1st, December 25th, New Year's Day Closed: Christmas Eve, December 26th, New Year's Eve Arriving by public transport Underground From the Essen central station, you can reach the Museum Folkwang with the underground lines U11, 101 and 107 towards Bredeney/Messa Gruga to the Rüttenscheider Stern stop From there, please follow the signs for?museum Folkwang? (ca 5? 7 minutes) Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr Timetable Information On foot from Essen central station along the 'Culture Path' You can reach the Museum Folkwang from the Essen central station in about 20 minutes 5

6 photo: Friedhelm Krischer photo: IFM Glückaufhaus Friedrichstraße Essen Just in time for Culture Capital RUHR2010 the restructuring of the office building 'Glückaufhaus' is completed The office building was built in the early 20s designed by the architect Ernst Bode The new building covering with a charcoal-colored aluminum and glass construction constitutes a unifying element to the historic brick facade of the 'Glückaufhaus' The "open" courtyard of the building to the pocket park forms the center of the entire arrangement photo: IFM Floor area/size m² Bahl Architekten ruhrpottler 6

7 Aachen University Hospital Pauwelsstraße Aachen The monumental building is an example of the structuralist High Tech ure It has been mentioned alongside with Centre Pompidou Paris and Berlin International Conference Center The Megastructure of 257 by 134m and 57m height houses all medical and teaching facilities of RWTH Aachen University Hopsital under one roof It is the workplace of about 5000 people staff and serves about patients yearly Floor area/size m² Weber, Brand und Partner RWTH Aachen University, Federal State of NRW glasbaustein photo: Daniel Lohmann 7

8 photo: Daniel Lohmann Sankt Fronleichnam Düppelstraße Aachen The parish church St Fronleichnam in the East of Aachen is one of the best known examples of modernist church architecture Its minimalism was so radical for the late 1920s, that initally the plans were rejected by the authorities the church is a clean white box, with hardly a whiff of color Rudolf Schwarz was a professor at Aachen Werkkunstschule, where architecture was taught alongside with crafts His fellow teachers designed furniture, windows etc which are mostly preserved today schwarz became famous with his post-war churches all over and the reconstruction of the city of Cologne, but this building in Aachen marks the first and maybe boldest of his churches Cooperating designer Rudolf Schwarz Hans Schwippert Bishopric of Aachen glasbaustein photo: Daniel Lohmann Monday - Saturday: 830am to 5pm, Sunday: am 8

9 photo: Hans B photo: Hans B Annakirche Ahrweilerplatz Düren Between 1954 and 1956 the Annachurch was built Rudolf Schwarz started building a modern church, in which some of the parts and debris of the old church were integrated Rudolf Schwarz HansB photo: Hans B 9