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27%OFFRoger Hargreaves - Steidle + Partner - 9783930698486 - V9783930698486
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Steidle + Partner

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Description for Steidle + Partner Hardcover. Munich needs nothing more than attractive building land. In 1997, an architectural competition was looking for ideas for an "inner-city, dense mixture of use for culture, as a central, for housing and commerce". The prize-winning suggestion by Steidle + Partner became the basis for planning. Num Pages: 60 pages, Illustrations(some col.). BIC Classification: 1DFG; AM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 306 x 288 x 11. Weight in Grams: 788.
Text in German. Munich is lucky. A city that is at the top of the popularity scale needs nothing more than attractive building land. There has been a great deal more of this in recent years since industry and commerce have moved off to the periphery, barracks have been closed, the goods station and the airport have been relocated and the exhibition centre has gone to the empty site in Riem that was freed up. This meant that the Theresienhohe became an urban development area as well. Trade-exhibition halls were still being built around the historic parkland, established as an exhibition park around the turn of the century, in the 1980s. In 1997, an architectural competition was looking for ideas for an "inner-city, dense mixture of use for culture, as a central, for housing and commerce". The prize-winning suggestion by Steidle + Partner became the basis for further planning. The convincing feature was the instinctive sureness with which the practice imposed scale and urban character of the surrounded quarters on to the former exhibition-centre site. The development proposal, which could be interpreted in many ways but proposed an easily remembered line, is continued in the architecture, with its sets of buildings staggered against each other. The first buildings to be completed included the KPMG head office, which emerged from a workshop procedure: the ground plan for the complex uses a meander pattern, completed at one corner by a high-rise residential building -- which means that the quarter principle of reversible residential and office use is demonstrated within a single block. A central entrance courtyard provides access to the office block, but there is access from the outside elsewhere as well, should the function ever be changed. The building rises to seven storeys, and is pleasingly disturbing because of the lively colours on its facade of glazed ceramic panels. The even staccato of the narrow windows forms a contrast with this. Both together give the architecture the appeal of a mysterious musical instrument -- certainly intended for very young, rhythmic music.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Language
German
Number of pages
60
Condition
New
Number of Pages
60
Place of Publication
Fellbach, Germany
ISBN
9783930698486
SKU
V9783930698486
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About Roger Hargreaves
Wolfgang Bachmann has served as editor of Construction World in Berlin and as chief editor for Builder in Munich, and is now its editor. Arno Lederer is a German architect, a partner at Lederer + Ragnarsdóttir + Oei, and a professor of architecture.

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