Office building glory 1
The Herrlichkeit 1 office building , also known as the Wuppesahl office building , in Bremen - Neustadt , Alte Neustadt district, on the Teerhof , Herrlichkeit 1, is one of the most important buildings in Bremen .
history
On the war-ravaged Teerhof, the 1967 Insurance Exchange - a 5 and 10-storey, cubically structured building complex with surrounding ribbon windows designed by Martin Zill with Eberhard Kaiser - was the only new building between the two Weser bridges. An architects' competition was held in 1978 for the further development of the Teerhof. It was not until 1991/92 that the Teerhof was largely built up again and the first larger section was completed in 1995.
The Wuppesahl office building for C. Wuppesahl Finanzversicherungsmakler on the Kleine Weser was then built from 1995 to 1998 according to plans by the "successor" Zill, the architects Harm Haslob , Peter Hartlich and Klaus Schütz (Bremen). A distinctive five-storey solitaire made of dark clinker bricks with a stacked storey and a flat tent roof characterizes the side of the Kleine Weser and mediates between the higher insurance building and the low residential area.
The architecture guide bremen writes: "The elongated office building on the Kleine Weser, completed in 1998, is particularly impressive on its south side, where the riverside path on the Kleine Weser was tensely integrated into the building made of dark clinker bricks by means of an arcade."
The Weser-Kurier wrote on January 8, 1992: “Our time-honored“ water chest of drawers ”- now it has had a sister. Somewhat finer and smaller in their dimensions, but in spite of the age difference of almost 120 years of unmistakable similarity. "Eberhard Syring explains:" You can notice a special balance in this architectural attitude, a balance between restraint and presence, between historical and modern references, between imagery and abstraction .... Be it the principle of miniaturization that Haslob and Hartlich applied when they staged the Wuppesahl building on the Teerhof as the little brother of the water tower. A motif that Ungers referred to on various occasions ”.
Even today (2014) the building is used for office purposes by service providers.
Individual evidence
- ↑ architecture guide bremen : Wuppesahl office building
- ↑ Eberhard Syring: traces in urban space , p. 40/41.
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 '23.2 " N , 8 ° 48' 9.9" E