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SchwabenGalerie: View to the Market Hall
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SchwabenGalerie: Porticus
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SchwabenGalerie: Atrium
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SchwabenGalerie: Atrium
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SchwabenGalerie: Entrance to the Atrium
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SchwabenGalerie: Citizens Hall
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SchwabenGalerie: Ground Floor
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SchwabenGalerie: Normal Floor
City Centre Stuttgart-Vaihingen: SchwabenGalerie
Leon Wohlhage Wernik Architekten. Stuttgart, Germany
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Name of work in English
City Centre Stuttgart-Vaihingen: SchwabenGalerie
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Name of work in original language
Stadtzentrum Stuttgart-Vaihingen: SchwabenGalerie
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2005
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Work Location
Stuttgart, Germany
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Studio
Leon Wohlhage Wernik Architekten
EUmies Awards 2005 Nominees
Collaborators
Collaborator (office): M Ulrich (Project Leader), Vetter, L Ulrich, Sabine Artnz, L, Tilman Bock, L, J B, Julia Hausmann, L, Walter Miller, L, Abdullah Motaleb, L, Lydia R, Francesca Saetti, L, Tim Schmitt,L, Henning Schulz, L, Andrew Strickland, L, Michael T, Iris Wagenplast, L; Design: L with H.J. Lankes and J. Menzer; Project management: H Stuttgart; Coordination: Chapman Taylor Architekten Planer GmbH D (implementation planning); Landscape architect: Gesswein. Henkel + Partner Ostfildern; Structural engineering: Deufel Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH Deizisau; Climatisation: Ingenieurb Stuttgart, K+S Haustechnik Rheinbach; Lighting: LichtVision GmbH Berlin; Consulting: Brecht Ingenieure Stuttgart (Facade), Ferdi Fimmers, Krefeld; Fire consulting: T Ulm; Consulting: Dr. Bender und Stahl, B Ludwigsburg (Traffic Design), Spiekermann GmbH & Co. Stuttgart; Building physics: GN Bauphysik Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH Stuttgart; Others: DEKRA Umwelt GmbH V (Security Health Costs (SiGeKo)); Civil, soil and survey: Prof. Dr.-Ing E. Vees und Partner Baugrundinstitut GmbH Leinfelde-Echterdingen; Climatisation: Clima- and Fire Protection-Simulation Atrium TU Braunschweig
Program
Mixed use - Cultural & Social
Completion
2004
For a long time, the historic city centre of StuttgartVaihingen had not been formed by church, townhall and school, but by the huge brewery complex & the main employer in the city and a 'monster structure'. The place elsewhere reserved for public spaces had been occupied here by the walledin brewery. The new city centre project, named 'Schwabengalerie' gave Vaihingen a true urban focus with public squares and buildings for the first time. The competition brief for the 'Suabian Gallery' included an Americantype shopping mall. The new design develops the spaces of a European city with the old townhall and new townhall square now forming the centre and three pedestrian precincts ending in another square, 7m higher. The new Civic Forum and the market hall are between both squares. Other structures are arranged as three urban building blocks with shops, offices and a hotel, each one as an own typological form. The centre piece of the ensemble is the socalled Atrium, a glass hall with a double function: one as the winterly counterpart to the open square, both forming a unity, and second as the skylight for, and path to and from, the underground car park.