Barcelona, ES
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.
Status: Built
Location: Park der Opfer des Faschismus, Chemnitz, Germany
Additional Credits: Project: 1997
Construction: 2001-2004
Surface: 9,500 m2 + 5,500 m2 landscaping surface
Photo: Jan Bitter