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Dreams Of Three Slices

Posted by
MadScientist (Düsseldorf, Germany) on 4 April 2013 in Architecture and Portfolio.

This is the former corporate headquarters of a long-standing industrial concern, called Dreischeibenhaus (which would be Three Slices Building in English). The company left this building two years ago, and the Dreischeibenhaus changed its owner. The new owner is now busy transforming this office building into - guess what - upmarket apartments, exactly. Also here I can't think of living in that building; this will perhaps be a home for people who will invest a lot of money, but who never will move into there.

franz from Baden, Austria

zweckarchitektur a la bonheur !!! ich könnte mir auch niemals vorstellen, in so einem gebäude zu wohnen - und sehr wahrscheinlich können das die architekten und baumeister, die so etwas zu verantworten haben, ebenfalls nicht ...
(das hindert aber niemand daran, weiterhin so zu bauen ...)

4 Apr 2013 2:59pm

@franz: Oh, dieses Gebäude ist _das_ Symbol für Düsseldorfs Wiederaufbau und Wohlstand im Wirtschaftswunderland. (Denkmalgeschützt ist es auch.) Es hat durchaus Wirkung, hat aber keine nennenswerte Kommunikation nach außen. Rund ums Gebäude wehen starke Fallwinde, sodaß man aus seiner Nähe wieder schnell zu entfliehen versucht. Wer da wohnt, wird seine Fenster wahrscheinlich nicht öffnen können.

Ted from South Wales, United Kingdom

it's hard to imagine this building ever developing a soul or becoming [a] home.

4 Apr 2013 7:24pm

@Ted: Ha, you bet!

Steven from Chicagoland, United States

Quite an expansive view that you've captured which fills this frame beautifully with such symmetry!! Don't know how attractive it will be as residences though. Perhaps if there were some breaks in the facade with covered lanais?

4 Apr 2013 11:52pm

@Steven: Ha, urban heritage conservation forbid! :-D Thanks, Steven!

Abena from Illinois, United States

That is amazing. It has such a sense of brilliant size...out of this world, seriously and that's brought into perspective with the tree.

5 Apr 2013 3:52am

@Abena: This building still is the city's symbol for redevelopment and regaining wealth after the destructions of the war. It's a solitaire, though.