DRESDA Projects 8 Created 07-Jul-11 By nicola perin, padova, Italy New Synagogue Dresden Wandel Hoefer Lorch Architekten community centre, synagogue Dresden Station Redevelopment Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr 3 UFA Cinema Center Saxony City Archive Dresden 6 SLUB Dresden 7 Ortner & Ortner library 4 International Congress Centre Dresden 8 Storch Ehlers Partner Architekten congress centre Daniel Libeskind museum SAA Schweger s archive Foster & Partners train station 2 5 Coop Himmelb(l)au cinema http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nick77/guides/dresda/ Centrum Galerie Dresden 9 Peter Kulka shopping centre 1
photo: Wojtek Gurak photo: Timo Mecking New Synagogue Dresden Hasenberg 1 01067 Dresden After the German Reunification in 1989, the will came up to rebuild Dresden's synagogue at the place where Gottfried Semper's first building was destroyed the 9th of November in 1938 In 1997, after an open competition with 57 entries, the Jewish Community of Dresden chose the third-placed entry by Wandel Hoefer Lorch s The finally-executed building consists of two cubes made of coloured concrete with a connecting courtyard in between The community centre, a partially glazed block, serves administrative purposes and houses a café and a meeting room On the other side of the courtyard, the synagogue has been designed as a twisted cube The interior is structured by fine, wooden, built-in furniture and golden metal chain curtains Daylight penetrates the concrete-gridded roof and adds an atmospheric shimmer to the golden hangings The New Synagogue was awarded 'Best European ure' in 2001 11-2001, Interior architect Wandel Hoefer Lorch Architekten timo_mecking Jüdische Gemeinde Dresden photo: Wojtek Gurak Guided tours are available For further information, please call: ++49-351 - 656070 or write at: Jüdische Gemeinde zu Dresden Synagoge Hasenberg 1 01067 Dresden Dresden can be visited by train or airplane The New Synagogue is situated in the city centre, on the Elbe riverside http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nick77/guides/dresda/ 2
Dresden Station Redevelopment Wiener Platz 4 01069 Dresden Originally one of the most impressive late-nineteenth-century railway stations in Europe, Dresden's railway terminus suffered severe wartime damage compounded by poor post-war maintenance, finally reaching a state where remedial conservation was required This redevelopment peels away later additions to restore the integrity of the original design with modern means (text from architect's website) 2006 Foster & Partners Deutsche Bahn AG Station & Service http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nick77/guides/dresda/ 3
photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Nazar Leskiw Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr Olbrichtplatz 2 01076 Dresden http://wwwmilitaerhistorisches-museumbundeswehrde The Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr occupies a 19th-century building in Dresden The museum's central theme is the human being: those who went into the war and those who have remained at home; people of different eras and people of different generations In the form of a wedge, the British bomber formations had approached the old part of the town of Dresden in February 1945 Moreover, the point of the wedge points to the place in Dresden where the first bombs were thrown off (text from architect's website and Wikipedia) photo: Nazar Leskiw Floor area/size 2010 20000 m² Daniel Libeskind Federal Republic of http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nick77/guides/dresda/ 4
UFA Cinema Center Sankt-Petersburger-Straße 24 01069 Dresden http://wwwufa-dresdende The project for the UFA Cinema Center is the result of the urban design concept developed for the planning competition PragerstraBe Nord PragerstraBe was defined as a dynamic spatial sequence, defined by tan-igents and diagonals rather than by axis The interweaving of public squares, public interiors and passageways was proposed as a way of energizing and densifying the new center of Dresden The junctures between these urban vectors are defined as public spaces The UFA Cinema Center is located at one of these junctures; it is formulated as the urban connection between Pragerplatz and Sankt-Petersburger-StraBe The cinema itself is thereby transformed into a public space (text from architects' website) Floor area/size 1998 6174 m² Coop Himmelb(l)au http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nick77/guides/dresda/ 5
Saxony City Archive Dresden Archivstrasse 14 01097 Dresden http://wwwarchivsachsende The competition was looking for the refurbishment and reorganization of the historic Saxon Archive building and the neighbouring office block, and a storage building as an extension The old building, built 1912-1915, is enhanced architecturally with a new main entrance and a festive foyer, appropriately to its importance (UNESCO: "one of the 100 most important archives in the world") The previously open inner courtyard is reinterpreted as the catalogue hall It is transformed into a roofed light-space, which means that the reduced area of the outer façades also improves the building's energy balance The compact, closed-looking new building adjacent to the office block is out of line with the street's axis and orientated to the building line in Erich-Ponto-Strasse Its large rooms are arranged around a central core On the outside, it displays a climatically advantageous heavy brick façade in Roman bond with reminiscences of historic warehouses (text from architects' website) Public access unknown! 8-2008 SAA Schweger s http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nick77/guides/dresda/ 6
SLUB Dresden Zellescher Weg 20 01069 Dresden http://wwwslub-dresdende/ The amalgamation of the various libraries in Saxony (national, federal and university) has resulted here in a library of European rank Over seven million books and data media are stored here The building itself is composed of two stone blocks of equal size that face each other across a lawn Centrally positioned between the two blocks, an area of glass that matches the floor area of either block is set flush in the lawn, forming the skylight for the central reading room below This reading room is the core of a three-storey library plinth that extends beneath the lawn across the entire area of the former sports grounds (text from architects' website) Floor area/size 2002 42000 m² Ortner & Ortner Staatshochbauamt Dresden http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nick77/guides/dresda/ 7
International Congress Centre Dresden Ostra-Ufer 2 01067 Dresden http://wwwdresden-congresscenterde/ International Congress Centre Dresden is one of the most modern and beautiful congress centres of Europe Situated directly on the river banks of the Elbe, it is a few steps away from Dresden's masterpieces of architecture: the Semper Opera House, the Zwinger and the world-famous Frauenkirche The ICD was designed by architects Hinrich Storch and Walther Ehlers It offers a unique architecture, modern infrastructure and state of the art equipment for international events The main hall will accomodate up to 139 tables In addition, 6 conference rooms and 9 group rooms are at disposal for Seminars, exhibitions or at companies rental A 5000-square metre foyer connects the different areas of the ICD (text from website CEPIC) 2004 Storch Ehlers Partner Architekten http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nick77/guides/dresda/ 8
Centrum Galerie Dresden Prager Straße 15 01069 Dresden http://wwwcentrumgaleriede/ The former GDR 'Centrum' department store was designed by Hungarian architects Ferenc Simon and Ivan Fokvari and built in 1978 It was converted to a Karstadt after the fall of Communism Karstadt later moved across the street to a new, larger building and the Centrum building was demolished in spring 2007 so a new, huge mall, 'Centrum Galerie', could be built on the site With a total retail space of 52000 m², 'Galerie' is the biggest shopping mall in Dresden The car park includes around 1000 spaces Floor area/size 8-2009 52000 m² Main designer, Peter Kulka T+T Design MULTI VESTE Dresden GmbH http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nick77/guides/dresda/ 9