all photography © Jan Bitter

The project consists in the construction of the new regional Deutsche Bundesbank head office in Chemnitz, formerly Karl Marx Stadt, in a place with a dense and traumatic history.The proposal addresses the issue of permanence and solidity (felt as being necessary for the first time, almost), and also of nature understood in a paleontological way as the petrification and crystalline solidification of organic matter.

Project Facts

Typology:Office building

Project:1997

Construction:2001-2004

Surface:9,500 m2 + 5,500 m2 landscaping surface

Site:Park der Opfer des Faschismus, Chemnitz (Germany)

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