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1 duisburgessenkolndusseldorf Projects 29 Created 29-Jul-09 By marco zanini, milano, Italy Bruder Klaus Chapel Wachendorf, Peter Zumthor chapel, landmark, religion, sculpture Zollverein Design School Coal Washing Plant Kolumba Tanzbrunnen G75 Hotel Chelsea RheinauArtOffice City Pavilion Antoniter Church 7 Museum of Applied Art Cologne, Rudolf Schwarz museum Hauptbahnhof Köln Extension 14 Wallraf Richartz Museum 15 Academy of Media Arts 16 Museum Ludwig 17 Cologne, Busmann + Haberer museum 8 Kunst Station St Peter 18 Cologne, Wiegmann Architekten culture, religion, renovation 9 Peek & Cloppenburg Department Store 19 Cologne, Renzo Piano commercial space, shop 10 Zeit Café 20 Cologne, HAGATEC cafe 11 Cologne, Ulrich Coersmeier cafe, exposition space, information centre Cologne, JSWD Architekten education Cologne, Freigeber Architekten office 6 Cologne, Hartmut Gruhl hotel 13 Cologne, Oswald Mathias Ungers museum Cologne, Schilling-Architekten office 5 Cologne, Frei Otto canopy, dance theater, pavilion, theatre Kranhaus 1 Rheinauhafen Cologne, Busmann + Haberer train station Cologne, Peter Zumthor museum 4 Essen, OMA - Rem Koolhaas renovation, museum, industry Cologne, BRT Architekten office Essen, SANAA university 3 Colorium 21 Düsseldorf, Will Alsop office 12 Hombroich Missile Base 22 Neuss, Tadao Ando culture, exposition space, pavilion 1

2 Kaistrasse 16 Düsseldorf, David Chipperfield s office Der Neue Zollhof Port-Event-Center House in front of the Wind Roggendorf-Haus DOCK Office Tower 28 Rhine Tower 29 Düsseldorf, Harald Deilmann control centre, landmark, watch-tower 25 Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park 30 Duisburg, Latz + Partner culture, park, sculpture 26 Düsseldorf, Zamp Kelp office 24 Düsseldorf, Wansleben Architekten cafe, office, restaurant Düsseldorf, Jo Coenen office Düsseldorf, Gehry Partners office 23 Museum Haus Lange and Haus Esters 31 Krefeld, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe private house 27 Düsseldorf, Rosalie art, sculpture 2

3 photo: HJ Imhoff photo: HJ Imhoff Bruder Klaus Chapel Rißdorfer Weg Wachendorf A small concrete chapel on the edge of a field in Mechernich, southern, built by local farmers in honor of their patron saint, the 15th-century hermit Bruder Klaus , Artist, Interior architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner Peter Zumthor HJI Hermann-Josef and Trudel Scheidtweiler photo: HJ Imhoff The chapel is open from 1000h to 1600h - but this might change depending on the season When in Wachendorf, take the Rißdorfer Weg and follow the road till you see the chapel on your right The road to the chapel has been closed for cars, so you need to walk a bit from the car park to reach the building 3

4 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 4

5 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 5

6 photo: Hélène Binet photo: Hélène Binet Kolumba Kolumbastraße Cologne Kolumba is the art museum of the archbishopric of Cologne As combination of place, collection and architecture it allows the visitor to experience two millennia of western culture in one building housing art from late antiquity to the present The architecture combines the ruins of the late Gothic church St Kolumba, the chapel Madonna in the Ruins (1950), the unique archaeological excavation ( ), and the new building designed by the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor The warm grey brick of the massive building unite with the tuffs, basalt and bricks of the ruins A secret garden, stone ruins, a uniquely dense archaeological site: the ruins of the gothic church in the center of rebuilt Cologne are the most impressive symbol of the city s almost complete destruction during the Second World War Kolumba allows visitors to immerse themselves in the presence of their memories and offers them their own experiences on their way Floor area/size m² Peter Zumthor Erzbistum Generalvikariat MI_MOA photo: Hélène Binet Wednesday to Monday 12 to 5 pm closed on Tuesdays 6

7 photo: HJ Imhoff photo: HJ Imhoff Tanzbrunnen Rheinparkweg Cologne Open air theatre alongside the river Rhein, over a dance floor The pavilions are located next to the entrance of the Rheinpark The theatre is still in use for concerts and meetings Floor area/size m² Frei Otto City of Cologne HJI photo: HJ Imhoff 24/7 The entrance to the Rheinpark is next to the massive "Köln Kongress" centers, alongside the river Just outside the city-centre, on the other side of the river than the Dom 7

8 photo: Piotr Krajewski G75 Gereonswall Cologne The property of the G75 Office Building on Gereonswall 75 in Cologne is one of the typical Cologne 'interplaces' It used to be farm land in the Middle Ages as part of the 'Kümpchenshof' Since the Second World War it was used as a public parking lot Strictly the new office building does not interact with its surroundings, as its own spatial characteristics and logic develops internally The first floor is free of office use and is available to public use The upper floors are used by the office of Schilling-Architekten Public access unknown! 2002 Schilling-Architekten pkrajewski_pl photo: Piotr Krajewski 8

9 photo: Bjorn Utpott photo: Bjorn Utpott Hotel Chelsea Jülicherstr Cologne An artists' hotel featuring "Artists in residence" The roof area has recently been developed in a deconstructionist style by architect Hartmut Gruhl, on top of a rather unpretentious building from the Sixties The result of this is seven new luxury rooms The other rooms are more ordinary and cheaper too It looks like a sculpture on a pedesta Some rooms have split-level, most of them with their own roof-top terrace The oblique construction creates unusual and exciting spaces with wide views from the wall-high cantilevered windows photo: Bjorn Utpott 2001 Hartmut Gruhl Bjorn_Utpott mail@hotel-chelseade Location great in pleasant neighbourhood with plenty of shops and restaurants, 20 mins walk through excellent shopping area to the old twon centre and the dome (or 2 tram stops) 9

10 RheinauArtOffice Bayenwerft Cologne Freigeber s and Schuett s have designed a new office space for Microsoft s North-Rhine Westphalian, within the new development area Rheinauhafen Essentially, the facade of the proposed building complex consists of two supporting, asymmetrical belts which, shifted against each other, loop through the whole edifice, thus connecting two individual rhomboid building units in a sculptural way To ensure a maximum of spatial efficiency, the external parts of the building, which are situated on a flood protection platform, were supplemented with a two-storied bridge constructionthe open space under the bridge opens up a stage-like view of the docks photo: Bjorn Utpott Floor area/size m² Freigeber Architekten Schuett architects RheinauArtOffice GmbH & Co KG Bjorn_Utpott 10

11 City Pavilion Antoniter Church Schildergasse Cologne In the middle of the busy Cologne Schildergasse stands a medieval evangelical church as quiet place In the midst of the commercial street Schildergasse with overloaded store fronts, this place offers a moment of peace and withdrawal: the prayer, the lighting of a candle, inner reflection Around 20,000 people walk past here every hour The adjacent City Pavilion is located behind the church and can be reached from both sides, coming from the Schildergasse It contains a public café (Café Stanton), an exposition place and meeting room The cubical volume opens up to a secure rear garden with quiet intimacy Between an ancient and modern venue the public terrace offers nice views towards the next shop-aholic destination: the Peek & Cloppenburg department store nextdoor Floor area/size m² Ulrich Coersmeier Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Köln, Antoniterkirche Naomi tel info@cafe-stantonde Monday-Friday: 09:30-01:00h Saturday: 09:00-01:00h Sunday: 10:00-01:00h From the east on Neumarkt, walk into the shoppingstreet Schildergasse, and after 200m on the right is the cafe, behind the Antoniterkirche More information about the church:

12 Museum of Applied Art An der Rechtschule D Cologne t/ The Museum für Angewandte Kunst (in short MAK) shows 20th century design in a great post-wwii building, designed in 1957 by Cologne architect Rudolf Schwarz Originally this building was designed for the the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and later housed Museum Ludwig The design department gives visitors the opportunity to study design in its close relationship with works of fine art Under the title 'Art + Design in Dialogue' the new permanent design exhibition highlights the complex interplay between design and art and contextualize it within it's political social and artistic framework 20th century design by pioneering designers, juxtaposed with outstanding works of fine art The building was sensitively renovated by the Cologne architect Walter Lom in Main designer, Rudolf Schwarz Walter von Lom Naomi Tuesday to Sunday 11 am - 5 pm Public tours: Saturdays, Sundays 230 pm, wednesdays 11 am Tel: +49/221/ and Library: Tuesday to Friday 11 am -5 pm Tel / /23394 mfak@stadt-koelnde The Museum has a great lunch room and open air inner courtyard! Subway, tram, bus: Dom/Hauptbahnhof 12

13 photo: Bjorn Utpott photo: Bjorn Utpott Kranhaus 1 Rheinauhafen Rheinauhalbinsel Cologne A new office space, with 'spectacular' design on a unique location at the River Rhine It is located on top of the Rheinauhafen car park, "Europe's longest underground car park", which stretches over a length of 1,600 meters under the area Project is not public! Floor area/size m² BRT Architekten Bjorn_Utpott photo: Bjorn Utpott 13

14 Hauptbahnhof Köln Extension Köln Hauptbahnhof Cologne n hbfhtml Köln Hauptbahnhof (usually translated from German as ''Cologne Central Station'', short form: Köln Hbf) is the main train station for the city of Cologne in western The station is an important local, national and international hub On an average day, about 250,000 travellers pass by, leaving it tied with Hanover and Düsseldorf for fifth busiest station in The automatic baggage locker facility with over 1,000 located underground baggage compartments is another feature of the Cologne railway station The station's building also hosts a large shopping mall, the Colonaden In 1945 architect and urban planner Rudolf Schwarz called Cologne the "world's greatest heap of debris" In 1957 the station was rebuilt after the centre of the city was wiped out s Schmitt and Schneider designed the new entry hall and the bowl shaped roof In 2000 the station was renovated and expanded by Busmann + Haberer 2000 Busmann + Haberer Naomi Every day Shops and eateries are also open on Sunday The station is situated next to the Cologne cathedral 14

15 Wallraf Richartz Museum Obenmarspforten Cologne The Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud is Cologne s oldest museum and one of the foremost picture galleries in It shows European painting from the 13th to the early 20th century and has one of the world s leading collections of mediaeval painting, with Stefan Lochner s Madonna of the Rose Bower as its greatest attraction Other highlights include works by the Baroque masters, ranging from Rubens and Rembrandt to Murillo and Boucher, the German Romantics, French Realism, and Impressionism A competition in 1996 for a new building between the so-called war Rathauspatz and the ruins of St Alban was won by the Cologne architect Oswald Mathias Ungers The new building stands on a historical basis and is of numerous witnesses to the centuries-old architectural history of this place Excavations of a Roman temple, and medieval cellars can be seen in the basement of the museum, and behind the entrance lie the church ruins of St Alban 2001 Oswald Mathias Ungers Naomi Tuesday to Friday 10 am to 6 pm Every Thursday 10 am to 10 pm Saturday and Sunday 11 am to 6 pmclosed Mondays, as well as on 24, 25 and 3112 and January 1st tel: / , wallraf@museenkoelnde Restaurant Bistro WallRichEck, Tel Subway: station Dom/Hauptbahnhof (Central station) Bus: station Rathaus Tram: station Heumarkt Car: Parking facilities can be found in the direct vicinity 15

16 photo: Piotr Krajewski Academy of Media Arts Filzengraben Cologne Through a new extension, the Academy of Media Arts (Die Kunsthochschule für Medien-KHM) has an assured future at its location to the south of Cologne's inner city A complex arrangement of uses is accommodated on a tight site in Filzgraben Three building blocks make up the main functional units: the main building to the street with auditorium and workspaces; the studio building with film studio area and the cafeteria pavilion The buildings surround a campus-like courtyard, which can be used for a variety or purposes, and offers terraced areas for the cafeteria pavilion The courtyard, with its play of levels, is the identity-reinforcing middle point of the complex It is surrounded by formally reduced, sculptural architecture, which demonstrates the strength of the monolithic This conceptual approach is emphasised by the use of large-format Italian sandstone cladding (Pietra Sirena), full-storey high in some areas (text from website architects) Public access unknown! Floor area/size m² JSWD Architekten Bau- und Liegenschaftsbetrieb NRW pkrajewski_pl photo: Piotr Krajewski 16

17 Museum Ludwig Heinrich-Böll-Platz Cologne The Museum Ludwig is devoted to modern art from the beginning of the 20th century The highlight of the museum is the collection of Pop Art built up by Peter and Irene Ludwig - the largest outside the USA In addition, the Ludwigs have bequeathed a considerable collection on the Russian avantgarde from the period from 1906 to 1930 and a collection of several hundred works by Pablo Picasso The overall form of the building is a rhythmic east-west saw-tooth roofscape It is divided into two halves in order to create views and direct access from the Cathedral to the Rhine, involving five different streets and squares around the museum The spatial hierarchy continues inside At the centre of the cross formed by the outdoor streets and squares is the foyer, from where the staircase leads to the different levels and exhibition areas The saw-tooth roof allows an explicit northward orientation, giving evenly distributed natural north light, augmented as necessary by artificial light 1986 Busmann + Haberer City of Cologne Naomi Tuesday - Sunday: h Every first Thursday of the month: h Monday closed , info@museum-ludwigde On walking distance from the central train station 17

18 Kunst Station St Peter Leonhard-Tietz-Strasse Cologne Located in the center it's the last preserved Gothic cathedral in the city, originally built ( ) as a 3-aisled gallery basilica The Romanesque west tower dates from 1170 Together with the neighboring Cecilia Church, the current Schnütgen Museum, this is the only surviving twin church plant in Cologne Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Köln (Cologne Saint Peter Art Center) at Jesuit Church of St Peter is almost a religious experience unto itself It's a sensuous haven for contemporary art exhibitions from the likes of David Salle, Rosemarie Trockel, Francis Bacon, Anish Kapoor, Cindy Sherman and many others Especially the permanent objects like 'Crucification of St Petrus' by Peter Paul Rubens (ca 1639) combines to a meaningful unity with the modern cross altar by Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida Religion, contemporary art and music in a simple architectural space, with a clarity of basic material selection, sophisticated lighting all correspond with the various exhibited objects 2000 Wiegmann Architekten Katholische Kirchengemeinde Sankt Peter Naomi Tuesday - Saturday: 11-17h Sunday: 13-17h Monday closed Kunst-Station also proudly offers the attending public many aural delights from its concerts performing contemporary, original music Be sure to make room in your plans for a visit to this glorious place and commune with art Subway to Neumarkt, around the corner of Renzo Piano's shopping mall Peek & Cloppenburg 18

19 photo: Thomas Bögl photo: Thomas Bögl Peek & Cloppenburg Department Store Schildergasse Cologne This structure by Renzo Piano is a rather strange department store in the centre of Cologne It definitely is a landmark in the city and helps to orientate within it It's glass façade shows high ambitions and the wooden structure which sustains the glass panels is highly sophisticated and elegant You enter the building at its rear end and will only be able to experience it's beauty by climbing behind the stalled goods 2005 Renzo Piano Peek & Cloppenburg Thomas_Boegl photo: Thomas Bögl Monday - Thursday: 10:00-20:00 / Friday: 10:00-21:00 / Saturday 10:00-20:

20 Zeit Café Tankgasse Cologne With the reconstruction of the Cologne railway station the Time Cafe was placed directly underneath the station clock with blue fluorescent tubes, inside the entrance hall The aim was to create a café with so little wall space as necessary and as much as possible to create as much 'Domblick' (view on the nextdoor Dom cathedral) as possible Following conditions of the listed Hauptbahnhof (central train station), the body of the café is exactly like the predecessor architecture HAGATEC Stockheim Hbf-Köln GmbH Naomi 20

21 photo: Dirk Verwoerd photo: Dirk Verwoerd Colorium Speditionstraße Düsseldorf Located on an extremely constricted site in the Speditionsstrasse peninsula, formerly home to a waterfront silo, SMC Alsop's building takes the form of a dramatic 62-metre high tower with two basement levels SMC Alsop's treatment of the external façade of the building, an intricate patchwork of coloured glass, transforms what could be a conventional office into a towering mosaic artwork The regularity of the floor pattern is broken down and blurred by the sophisticated and sensuous façade treatment using advanced glass technology and only 17 distinct types of panels To ensure an intense external colour appearance, the artwork is screen printed onto the glass with a reduced percentage of printed area in the vision panels Overlaying the concrete frame, the mosaic façade distorts the internal structure, scale and perspective of the building, creating a highly elusive and pictorial presence on the waterfront (text from website SMC Alsop) photo: Dirk Verwoerd Public access unknown! Floor area/size m² Will Alsop pkrajewski_pl 21

22 photo: Ivo Rosbeek photo: Ivo Rosbeek Hombroich Missile Base Raketenstation Hombroich 1 D Neuss This art exhibition house of the Langen Foundation opened in September 2004 The Foundation owes its existence to a wholly private initiative The founder, Marianne Langen, achieved with the construction of this building the fulfilment of a dream Together with her husband, Viktor Langen, she had begun to collect art works in the 1950s Harmoniously embedded in the landscape, the Langen Foundation presents itself as a complex of fair-faced concrete, glass and steel surrounded by earthworks Through a broad concrete arch, the way leads along cherry trees and past an artificial pond to two joined complexes of buildings which differ from each other architecturally: a long concrete structure surrounded by a mantle of glass and, at an angle of 45 degrees, two concrete bars built parallel to one another These latter two buildings are buried six metres deep in the earth and protrude only 345 metres above it The 8 metres room height can only be experienced from within the building photo: Ivo Rosbeek Floor area/size m² Tadao Ando Langen Foundation studioivo Daily 10am to 6pm On Autobahn A 57 near junction Neuss/West onto A 46 direction Aachen Exit No 14 Grevenbroich-Kapellen From there follow brown signs "Raketenstation Hombroich" 22

23 photo: Tamas Ozvald photo: Tamas Ozvald Kaistrasse 16 Kaistraße Düsseldorf This building forms one end point to a riverfront series of new and renovated buildings in the port area of Düsseldorf, The area still retains a number of elements from its more industrial past - shipping cranes, cobbled streets, and simple unadorned warehouse buildings - but increasingly this atmosphere has been lost beneath the over-sized forms and uniform cladding systems of more recent commercial developments Looking to reverse this trend, the studios have been designed in such a way as to return to the scale and materiality of the older, dockland vernacular Floor area/size m² David Chipperfield s GbR Kaistraße r92i12 photo: Tamas Ozvald More information on Epdf 23

24 photo: Dirk Verwoerd photo: Piotr Krajewski Der Neue Zollhof Stromstraße Düsseldorf Der Neue Zollhof is situated at the eastern edge of the Rhine River harbour front in downtown Düsseldorf, near the administrative complex of the North Rhine Westphalia Province The programme for the project provides square metres of commercial office space in three separate buildings, promoting a highly open site plan and minimizing the overall mass of the project The placement of these buildings acknowledges the convergence of Brueckenstrasse and Wupperstrasse toward the site, thus leaving it open to the residential district across Stromstrasse This massing further provides a counterpoint to the typical horizontal development of the adjacent sites, resulting in a series of clustered, mid-rise towers photo: Dirk Verwoerd Public access unknown! Floor area/size m² Gehry Partners Kunst und Medienzentrum Rheinhafen GmbH pkrajewski_pl 24

25 photo: Dirk Verwoerd photo: Dirk Verwoerd Port-Event-Center Am Handelshafen Düsseldorf In 1996, Wansleben Architekten initiated in cooperation with developer BTV a concept for a Creative Centre in the commercial harbour of Düsseldorf The proposed Port-Event-Center (PEC) is a complex knot comprising of a tower as an end of the 'mediawalk' and a 35m cantilevered office unit over a highly soundproof event space It protrudes over the protected former powerstation as a reaction to the perspective of the harbour basin The 'media-port' should be supplemented by a centre for culture and music Individual treatment of the different spatial dynamics and directions is done as usual in older parts of the harbour by an uncomplicated but complex arrangement of unpretentious buildings which in appearance and function are achitectually independent This is a roboust, non-hierarchical urban structure that is capable of being changed and developed with minimum coordination Since 2002 it has been rented by O'Gilvy & Mather Advertising Agency and 3001 Discotheque photo: Dirk Verwoerd Public access unknown! Floor area/size m² Wansleben Architekten Modernes Düsseldorf pkrajewski_pl 25

26 photo: Dirk Verwoerd photo: Piotr Krajewski House in front of the Wind Kaistrasse 8a Düsseldorf "The house from the wind" was realized in Duesseldorf Media Harbor In this building wind manifests itself in a figurative sense, as the media storm that is connected to the foundations of objectivity and shakes at the same time the consciousness, while society is changing and that individuals who expose this storm The façade of the building is inspired by this wind Despite the so-exciting curves, the building remains a totally ordinary office building with the standards, which the Company required In 'House in front of the Wind', the wind is visualized as a potential of objects and as a metaphorical element for the development of society Public access unknown! 2007 Zamp Kelp GbR Kaistrasse 8a, Düsseldorf pkrajewski_pl photo: Dirk Verwoerd 26

27 photo: Dirk Verwoerd photo: Dirk Verwoerd Roggendorf-Haus Speditionstrasse 15a Düsseldorf This former storage building in the Medienhafen (media harbour) of Düsseldorf was internally renovated The façade features the 'Flossis' artwork by artist Rosalie from Stuttgart These 29 bright-coloured plastic sculptures climb the façade photo: Dirk Verwoerd Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Main designer, Artist Rosalie Norbert Winkels City of Düsseldorf Roderick Tram 708 / Franziusstraße 27

28 photo: Roderick Trompert photo: Roderick Trompert DOCK Office Tower Kaistraße Düsseldorf A 63-metre office tower block was to sound the final chord of a series of high-rise buildings and at the same time mark the transition to the existing city It is located in the former dockland area that was redeveloped to form a multi-faceted commercial and recreational centre Highly diverse forms were tried out in a number of preliminary studies The final decision was for a powerful, monolithic form with a monumental capping This grand gesture nevertheless accommodates offices that are designed entirely according to the human measure The contrast between the large-scale and the human dimensions is visible in the use of material: on the one hand rough natural stone, on the other meticulously detailed glass façades All fifteen floors of offices can be organised in any way thanks to a central core with all facilities A number of terraces are located on the top floors to enable people to enjoy the spectacular view of the city of Düsseldorf (text from architect's website) Project is not public! 2002 Jo Coenen Modernes Düsseldorf, Gesellschaft für Stadtentwicklung MBH photo: Dirk Verwoerd Roderick Tram 708 / Franziusstraße 28

29 photo: Roderick Trompert photo: Roderick Trompert Rhine Tower Stromstraße Düsseldorf With its height of 234 metres, the Rhine Tower (Rheinturm) is the first construction built completely of reinforced concrete The tower is home of the world's largest decimal clock, visible on the concrete shaft The watch was developed by the light artist Horst H Baumann and received an entry in the Guinness Book of Records The exclusive restaurant 'Top 180' rotates around the shaft of the tower once an hour At a height of 168m there is a cafeteria and below it at 164m an open observation deck These facilities for the general public were inaugurated in March 1982 In 1984, the Rhine Tower was awarded a prize as an exemplary building by the North Rhine-Westphalian minister for urban development, housing and transport (text from wwwduesseldorfde) 1982 Harald Deilmann City of Düsseldorf Roderick photo: Roderick Trompert Tram 704 or 709 to Stadttor 29

30 photo: Roderick Trompert photo: Roderick Trompert Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park Emscherstrasse Duisburg If you are looking for recreation, an exciting experience, education or fun, the Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park is all you need At a site where the blast furnace heat was almost unbearable you can now cool down and relax Young trees and old furnaces overlook a park for everybody and everything - and even more, as you can simply climb to the roof of the Ruhr and enjoy the view, experience top events live in a factory building or track regional history in a world of steel (text from website Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park) photo: Roderick Trompert 1999 Landscape architect Latz + Partner Roderick From Duisburg Central Station or Dinslaken Station by tramway/ subway train no 903 to Landschaftspark Nord stop Walk (7 minutes) through Emscherstrasse to Emscherstrasse Gate From Duisburg Central Railroad Station or Duisburg Walsum station by tramway/ subway train no 902 (Monday to Friday) to Landschaftspark Nord stop Walk (7 minutes) through Emscherstrasse to Emscherstrasse Gate From Duisburg Baerl station or Duisburg Obermeiderich station by bus No 909 to Hüttenwerk stop 30

31 photo: Jeroen Meijer photo: Jeroen Meijer Museum Haus Lange and Haus Esters Wilhelmshofallee Krefeld The Villas House Ensemble Lange and Haus Esters is one of the architectural highlights of the new in and still offers an impressive way the Bauhaus idea of the unity of space and the subject, as well as the interaction between mind and crafts provided In 1927 the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe presented the clients Hermann Lange and Josef Esters a first draft of the drawing In 1930 houses of the families Lange and Esters were joined The houses have now been converted into museums for Contemporary art photo: Jeroen Meijer 1928, Landscape architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe jpmm daily except Monday, Phone: Fax: