Dorotheen Quartier in Stuttgart
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Dorotheen Quartier in Stuttgart
Redesigned Masterplanned Urban Area in Germany ? design by Behnisch Architekten
17 Oct 2018
Dorotheen Quartier
Architects: Behnisch Architekten
Location: Dorotheenstrasse, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany
Dorotheen Quartier
The re-planning of the Dorotheen Quartier not only creates new areas for public use, it also offers a unique opportunity to reassess the relationship with the Karlsplatz arcade.
This thoroughfare has, until now, always been perceived as the less important ?back? of the site, situated behind the Breuninger Department Store, and leading towards Sporerstraße and Karlstraße. With this project, which includes three mixed-use buildings with offices, small-scale retail and urban living, the highly valuable central city core is now infused with a new identity and vitality ? complete with a broad range of user activities. Thus, the new area augments Stuttgart?s existing, thriving network of lively pedestrian areas.
There have been some major changes to the scheme since Behnisch Architekten won the competition in spring 2010. The building of the former Hotel Silber has been preserved. Here the state of Baden-Württemberg committed itself to install a memorial, in memory of the building?s the former use as a Gestapo headquarter from 1937 to 1945.
The preservation of this building, which was almost completely destroyed during World War II and su...
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