EAM high-rise
The EAM high-rise is the first post-war high-rise in Kassel . It is located at the northern end of stairs street on the corner of Scheidemannplatz . It was built from 1954 to 1956 according to plans by the architect Werner Seidel. It is an urban dominant feature between the main train station and Friedrichsplatz . The building was built in a rectangular ground plan with a ten-storey reinforced concrete skeleton with 14: 8 axes as an administrative building for the energy company Elektrizitäts-Aktiengesellschaft Mitteldeutschland (EAM). The facade consists of distinctive house bindings, combined building edges and high-angular pivoting sash windows. It is clad with sandstone-colored stone slabs. There are sunken window niches on the upper floor. The ground floor has a protruding cornice and large shop windows.
The building was used by EAM for decades, but was sold to a Kassel real estate company in 2011. Since the city of Kassel wants to rent the building in order to accommodate their youth welfare office there, the building is currently being renovated and converted.
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literature
- Berthold Hinz, Andreas Tacke: Architectural Guide Kassel Oxford. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-496-01249-8 , p. 31.
Individual evidence
- ↑ EAM-Hochhaus Kassel - Architektur-Bildarchiv. In: architektur-bildarchiv.de. June 26, 2010, accessed October 11, 2018 .
- ^ Kassel: Former EAM high-rise is being converted for the city - center (Kassel). In: hna.de. March 18, 2017, accessed October 11, 2018 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 58.7 " N , 9 ° 29 ′ 35.7" E