House of the glass industry
The house of the glass industry at Couvenstrasse 4 in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort was built from 1950 to 1951 according to plans by Bernhard Pfau . The building was an example of how glass was used as a building material: "To demonstrate the uses of glass, this material was used in almost all structural members of the house". While the gable walls were faced with tuff stone on the outside, the street and rear fronts of the house were also "glazed over the entire width". The steel posts of the ceiling-high composite windows also served as load-bearing structural members of the glazed facade. The concrete ceilings were supported in the middle of the building on four pairs of steel supports. The building was built on a "two-hip floor plan with a central corridor". The stairwell and an exhibition hall were outside the building. According to Jürgen Wiener , the house was one of the buildings that "have since disappeared or have been disfigured beyond recognition" and "would have been included in the architecture guide in 1985".
literature
- ^ A b c Paul Ernst Wentz: Architecture Guide Düsseldorf. A guide to 95 selected buildings. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1975, No. 16
- ↑ a b Jürgen Vienna: Introduction to architectural history of Düsseldorf. In: Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (eds.): Architectural guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1st edition, Berlin 2001, pp. XI – XXII, on this p. XXII.
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 52.4 ″ N , 6 ° 47 ′ 18 ″ E