Edeka building

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View from the southwest in 2017
Facade design

The office building New-York-Ring 6 / 6a or Edeka-Gebäude is a building complex completed in 1974 in the Hamburg office city City Nord , which is the seat of the headquarters of Edeka . The building is a listed building .

Construction and architecture

In 1970 Edeka decided to concentrate the central administration, which was distributed over more than 20 locations in the Hamburg city area, in a new building in City Nord. The architectural competition contained two specifications that were unusual for the planning time, both of which were based on surveys among the employees: the building should not have full air conditioning and the offices should have a maximum of eight workstations and offer flexible room layouts. The design by architects Siegfried Wolske and Peter Erler only took second place, but still received the order. The main reason for this decision was the flexible usage options.

The building design is quite simple but very functional. Two L-shaped buildings are connected at their center by a core that contains elevators, stairs and escalators . The outstanding design element of the building is the facade with its circumferential escape balconies made of light-colored exposed concrete . The design was based on the facade designs of the Japanese architect Kenzo Tange . In this form, the escape balconies are transformed from originally purely functional parts of a building to its plastic structure. The facade still shows the original condition and the original colors.

Construction began on April 24, 1972, the foundation stone was laid on September 26 of the same year and the topping-out ceremony on November 2, 1973. In the course of 1974, all departments of the central administration gradually began their work in the new building. The building, designed for 1,000 workplaces, offered a range of services for employees. In addition to a more "classic" canteen, this included a shop for groceries, a branch of the in-house Edekabank , a sports hall, a fitness room and a sauna.

The original interior design provided for a defined color for all information boards on each floor, with which the dark ceilings should contrast.

use

Edeka has been the sole or predominant user of the building since it was built.

Shortly after moving in, efforts to decentralize the Edeka head office began. At the same time, more and more work was done by electronic data processing or external companies. As a result, the number of employees at Edeka fell to a low of 650 at the end of the 1980s. During this time, parts of the building were rented to other companies based in City Nord and large parts of the areas in the basement were converted into exhibition and conference rooms. From the mid-1990s, Edeka again centralized its employees in City Nord.

Renovation and modernization

Since 1997 the building has been fundamentally modernized in several steps. The outer facade remained almost unchanged, but the entire interior was redesigned and adapted to modern requirements. All rooms were given a much lighter and more subtle color scheme, the separation between hallways and offices was broken up by glass walls and doors, and some functions such as meeting areas, file storage, printers and fax machines were relocated to the former hallways. Overall, this resulted in a significantly more efficient use of the building's floor space, which today enables 1150 jobs.

In 2003, the overhaul of the entire building technology began, including all conference rooms, the data center, the energy supply, the kitchen and the canteen. As a final measure, the tried and tested escalators in the supply core were replaced.

Photographs and map

Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 10.3 "  N , 10 ° 1 ′ 13.4"  E

Map: Hamburg
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Edeka building​
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  • Façade details and color scheme

  • Entrance area

  • View from the park side

  • The model was the administration building of the Kagawa prefecture

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint of the website of the Edeka association. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
  2. ^ Entry on Siegfried Wolske in the Hamburg Architecture Archive. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
  3. ↑ Rating based on Sylvia Soggia: City-Nord - Europe's model city of modernity . Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-937904-83-2 , p. 136 .
  4. ↑ Complete renovation of the supply core by the Steffen architecture office. Retrieved May 27, 2019.

literature

  • Sylvia Soggia: City-Nord - Europe's modern model city . Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-937904-83-2 , p. 136-143 .

Web links

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