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Neuer Zollhof, general view
New Zollhof No. 2
Night view with office building city ​​gate in the background
View over the harbor bridge

The Neue Zollhof is an ensemble of buildings in Düsseldorf's Medienhafen that was inaugurated on October 19, 1999. The buildings are also known as Gehry buildings after their architect and designer Frank Gehry .

history

At the beginning of 1990, a competition for a new building on the site of the customs yard to be demolished was announced, which Zaha Hadid won, but whose "deconstructive design" was ultimately not carried out.

From 1996 to 1998 instead were designed by Frank Gehry and Beucker, Maschlanka and partners for about 120 million German marks three deconstructivist built buildings. The three buildings show neither cornices nor bases. The curvature of the facade with a “flowing, undulating surface” is striking. The division into three structures and the keeping of spaces between footpaths was owed in the project to the goal of keeping access to the harbor free for the adjoining residential area.

literature

Web links

Commons : Der Neue Zollhof  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. For lateral thinkers. New Zollhof opened in Düsseldorf . Article from October 20, 1999 in the portal baunetz.de , accessed on July 5, 2013
  2. City Planning Office Düsseldorf: The Neue Zollhof (Gehry buildings) ( Memento from April 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Gehry's swaying new buildings on the Rhine. In: RP-Online. March 26, 2015, accessed February 28, 2019 .
  4. Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural Guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01232-3 , p. 76, object no. 105
  5. a b Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural Guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01232-3 , p. 83, object no. 114
  6. ^ Heike Werner, Mathias Wallner: Architecture and history in Germany. Heike Werner, Munich 2006, p. 156.
  7. Michael Brockerhoff: Gehry built the symbol of the modern city . Article from July 5, 2013 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on July 5, 2013

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 58.3 "  N , 6 ° 45 ′ 27.7"  E