New Headquarters for the Deutsche Bundesbank in Chemnitz

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.

Typology: Office building
Competition: 1st Prize
Project: 1997
Construction: 2001-2004
Surface:  9,500 m2 + 5,500 m2 landscaping surface
Location: Chemnitz, Germany
Photo: Jan Bitter

Landes Sachsen-Anhalt Award 2005, Best building

Project documentation currently owned by MOMA San Francisco, USA