Trinkaus Bank

HSBC Trinkaus and Burkhardt, main building front view from Königsallee

Trinkaus-Bank on Königsallee

The office and administration building of the Trinkaus-Bank ( HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG ) is located at Königsallee 21 to 23 and on the corner of Trinkausstraße in Düsseldorf . It was built from 1972 to 1975 based on designs by Hentrich , Petschnigg + Partner (Hans Hilgert and M. Zotter).

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Paul Ernst Wentz describes that the color of the reflective glass, aluminum frame and granite cladding harmonize with one another. A foyer on the ground floor provides access to the bank and cashier room on the first floor via escalators. “Two fixed points with the same area” contain elevators and stairs that ensure vertical traffic.

“ A foyer facing Königsallee gives access to the bank and cash desk on the first floor via escalators. The second to fourth floors contain office space that can be used both as individual offices and as open-plan offices. Elevators and stairs in two fixed points of the same area handle vertical traffic. In addition to the bank foyer, the ground floor contains exclusive shops. Passages extend the shopping center at street level across the property in the neighborhood. Reinforced concrete structure with columns 8.70 m apart. The flat facade is structured by narrow individual windows. The tinted reflective glasses in dark brown anodized aluminum frames stand in tone units with the granite cladding of the closed facade surfaces "

Jürgen Wiener emphasizes that the client did not want “a bank building in the usual sense”. Rather, it was his wish to create an office building that should contain an “exclusive business center”. In terms of urban planning, three streets were to be connected through passages. The floor plan is rectangular, but also looks "very blocky". The incision in the floor plan was not intended, but is given by a neighboring building. The inside of the building is characterized by “two fixed points of the same area”, which serve as “two traffic cores” and connect different floors with each other.

“ The four-storey bank building extends in the city of Düsseldorf along Königsallee, Trinkausstraße and Heinrich-Heine-Allee . The client did not plan a bank building in the usual sense, but an office building with an exclusive business center on the recessed ground floor, in which the three streets will be connected by passages. […] The building is rectangular, but has a cut in the plan that is created by the neighboring building. The building rises above a reinforced concrete structure that rests on mushroom-like supports at a distance of 8.70 m. There are traffic cores at two fixed points of the same area inside the building, which connect the levels with one another. The facade is kept simple. It is structured horizontally by closed surfaces with a brownish granite cladding, vertically by narrow single windows that are framed with dark brown aluminum and glazed with reflective glass. Overall, the building planned by HPP [Hentrich, Petschnigg + Partner] looks very blocky. "

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paul Ernst Wentz: Architecture Guide Düsseldorf. A guide to 95 selected buildings. , Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1975, ISBN 3-7700-0408-6 , No. 5
2. ^ Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architekturführer Düsseldorf , Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1st edition, Berlin 2001, No. 78.

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 28 "  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 38"  E