Five yards

Entrance to the Five Courtyards on Theatinerstrasse

Steel ball "Sphere" by Ólafur Elíasson in the Viscardihof

"Hanging Gardens" by Tita Giese

The shopping arcade Fünf Höfe in downtown Munich (in the area of Salvator-, Theatiner- , Kardinal-Faulhaber-Straße and others) was built from 1998 to 2003 after a building complex of the Unicredit Bank was gutted . In 2004 the Fünf Höfe were sold to DIFA (today's name: Union Investment Real Estate AG), and since then the official name has been CityQuartier Fünf Höfe .

General

In total, the Fünf Höfe offer their visitors around 60 shops on around 14,000 m² and eight cafés and restaurants on around 2,500 m². They also include the Hypo-Kunsthalle (approx. 3,200 m² floor space), which shows temporary exhibitions on changing themes, artists and eras.

There is also 24,300 m² of office space and around 3,200 m² of apartments that are barely noticeable from the passageways.

The ensemble is considered to be cosmopolitan, elegant to cool. It was mainly purchased from shops and bars in the upper price ranges.

Building history

The plan for the redesign of the entire block was the first international competition success of the Basel architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron in 1994 . The client was Fünf Höfe GmbH & Co KG, represented by HVB Immobilien AG .

While largely preserving the facades and parts of the old buildings, Herzog & de Meuron radically rebuilt the old town block, which had been closed until then, gutted it and designed it into an ensemble of courtyards and passages with different perspectives and insights, with each courtyard having its own character should. In the first construction phase, which was completed on February 8, 2001, the Perusa- and Portiahof , as well as the Pranner- and part of the Salvatorpassage and the Hypo-Kunsthalle were created according to their designs . The architect Ivano Gianola designed the Maffeihof and designed the area south of the Fünf Höfe to become the Schäfflerhof . In the second construction phase, which was inaugurated on March 19, 2003, the Munich architects Hilmer & Sattler and Albrecht designed the facade facing Salvatorstrasse.

art

Some of the courtyards and passages are decorated with works of art:

The “Hanging Gardens” by Tita Giese were installed in the Salvatorpassage .

In the Prannerpassage , 317 m² of glass sequin mosaics made by the Mayer'schen Hofkunstanstalt from round-cut clear window glass are placed in the gray fair- faced concrete in such a way that glitter effects result.

The “Sphere” designed by Ólafur Elíasson is attached to the Viscardihof , a large, hanging ball made of steel mesh.

literature

Nicolette Baumeister: Architecture of the New Munich. Munich building culture 1994-2004 . Verlagshaus Braun, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-935455-50-X , p. 12.
Christoph Hölz, Gabriele Schubert: Munich's new old town. Schäfflerhof - five courtyards . Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-930184-30-3 .

Web links

Commons : Fünf Höfe - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.baunetz.de/mektiven/Mommunikations_Fuenf_Hoefe_in_der_Muenchener_innenstadt_eroeffnet_8367.html
↑ http://www.baunetz.de/mektiven/Mommunikations_Zweiter_Bauabschnitt_der_Fuenf_Hoefe_in_Muenchen_eingeweiht_13163.html
↑ Gabriel Mayer (Ed.): Mayer'sche Hofkunstanstalt: Architecture, Glass, Art . Hirmer-Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7774-5601-0 , p. 102 .

48.140277777778 11.575277777778Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 25 ″ N , 11 ° 34 ′ 31 ″ E

[1] ttp://www.baunetz.de/mektiven/Mommunikations_Fuenf_Hoefe_in_der_Muenchener_innenstadt_eroeffnet_8367.html

[2] ttp://www.baunetz.de/mektiven/Mommunikations_Zweiter_Bauabschnitt_der_Fuenf_Hoefe_in_Muenchen_eingeweiht_13163.html

[3] Gabriel Mayer (Ed.): Mayer'sche Hofkunstanstalt: Architecture, Glass, Art . Hirmer-Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7774-5601-0 , p. 102 .