Galleria Mendini

South facade of the Galleria Mendini

Galleria Mendini is a residential and commercial building in downtown Lörrach . The house, built in 2003 and 2004, was conceptually designed by the Italian architect Alessandro Mendini from Milan, after whom the building was named.

history

After the renovation of the southern inner city area was completed with the establishment of the Migros supermarket and the center of the city center had shifted to the southern part, the aim was to remove the imbalance with the upgrading of Chesterplatz.

After the groundbreaking ceremony on December 10, 2002 with the participation of the then mayor Gudrun Heute-Bluhm and the architect Alessandro Mendini, construction actually began in February 2003 and was completed in July 2004. Because the house was originally planned as a shopping center , it was named Galleria . The architects of the building were the Milanese Atelier Mendini, who designed the facade, and the Rheinfeld architects Claudio Guida. In 2007 the house was completely occupied.

Location and description

The Galleria Mendini is located on the corner of Tumringer Straße and Chesterplatz, which is part of the northern part of the inner-city pedestrian zone . To the west of the Galleria Mendini is the fountain sculpture Interrupted Cycle of Nature , which is part of the Lörrach Sculpture Trail ; to the south is the high-rise on Chesterplatz.

The Galleria Mendini consists of two basement floors and five upper floors, with the ground floor and top floor being set back on the three sides of the shop window. In the basement there is an underground car park for around 40 vehicles, as well as functional and technical rooms as well as additional storage and archive areas. Overall, the house has a total area of around 5,660 square meters, which is divided into around 3,030 square meters of retail space and around 2,630 square meters of office space. The house has two staircases and elevators.

The facade cladding of the west facade consists of aluminum post and transoms . The mullion-transom elements are statically anchored to the concrete ceilings. The laminated safety glass has a sun protection function. The window surfaces on this page are printed with a spiral pattern in blue. The eye-catching south facade is primarily a concrete shell construction with rectangular window cutouts.