International Congress Center Dresden
The International Congress Center Dresden (ICD) was opened in 2004 and offers space for up to 6,000 conference participants. It is located not far from Dresden's old town on the southern bank of the Elbe in the immediate vicinity of the Erlweinspeicher . It is part of the Neue Terrasse building ensemble , consisting of the Saxon state parliament , the Erlweinspeicher and the congress center.
history
The architecture office Storch Ehlers Partner from Hanover won a realization competition for the future congress center of the city of Dresden . It was built between 2001 and 2004 according to the plans of Hinrich Storch , Walter Ehlers, Martin Bockelmann, Reinhard W. Klaus with Speckmann "in continuation of the architectural language of the New Parliament" and opened on May 16, 2004.
On the evening of September 26, 2016, one week before the celebrations for the Day of German Unity , there was an explosive attack on the terrace of the ICD with a suspected xenophobic background. Shortly before, another explosive device had exploded in front of a mosque in Dresden's Cotta district . Nobody got hurt.
description
Just like the state parliament, the congress building has a "far cantilevered canopy" that protrudes over the main entrance. However, while the parliament building, the Neue Nationalgalerie by Mies van der Rohe in Berlin quoted, has visited Congress, stylistic similarities with the mail order company Neckermann by Egon Eiermann from 1958-1961 in Frankfurt built building. As with the department store, the stairs were moved outside. The building is built entirely in the style of "dialogic architecture". The structure is interrelated with the shapes of the Elbe and transfers the curves of the river to the architecture. From the terrace of the congress center you have a good view of Dresden's old town in the southeast, of the Japanese Palace on the opposite bank of the Elbe and of the eastern enclosure in the northwest.
use
The operator of the congress center is the Maritim Hotelgesellschaft , which also operates the hotel in Erlweinspeicher. From 2006 to 2008 the International Supercomputer Conference , the largest European specialist conference for supercomputing , always took place in June at the ICD . The Dresden Congress Center was the venue for the 2007 European Chess Championship and the 2008 Chess Olympiad . From 2008 to 2010 the Printed Electronics Europe trade fair took place in the building .
reception
“Today in Germany a famous historical city skyline rarely changes due to the addition of new building blocks. In Dresden this is not only happening through the growth of the large dome of the Frauenkirche. The congress center has also recently become a prominent part of the Dresden cityscape on the old town side. The rising slope of the terrace marks the western end of the city center and creates a direct view of the landscaped eastern enclosure. Curved lines are a metaphor for the waves of the river. The access via the terrace stages the city: the high-lying entrance foyer allows a complete panoramic view of the banks of the Elbe. Generous glazing also allows visual contact with the city from inside. The congress center is a successful and further addition to the magnificent historical large buildings. "
Transport links
In the Könneritzstraße there is a stop for the Dresden tram called "Kongresszentrum ( House of the Press )".
Web links
- Operator's website
- City of Dresden - Urban Development and Environment - Congress Center ( Memento from 7 July 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Entry in Das Neue Dresden
literature
- Ingeborg flag : Dresden, city guide of contemporary architecture . The example, Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 3-935243-48-0 .
- Gilbert Lupfer, Bernhard Sterra, Martin Wörner (eds.): Architecture guide Dresden . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01179-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b das-neue-dresden.de
- ↑ a b Explosives attacks in front of the mosque and congress building . Spiegel Online . September 27, 2016. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
- ↑ Flag, p. 31 (New Terrace Congress Center)
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 31.3 " N , 13 ° 43 ′ 53.5" E