ThyssenKrupp Headquarters in Essen, Germany by Zaha Hadid Architects

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A landmark architecture with dynamic-sculptural and technical-innovative form that promotes the values of ThyssenKrupp. Axes span spiral-like in all directions creating a centrifugal field that forms the outline of the buildings and the surrounding landscape. This spatial development evokes images of dune landscapes or glacier fields formed and polished by nature.

ThyssenKrupp Headquarters

• Architects: Zaha Hadid Architects
• Project: ThyssenKrupp Headquarters
• Location: Essen, Germany
• Completion Date: 2006 – 2006
• Area: 146,100m2
• With Parking Houses: 210,000m²
• Design: Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
• Project Architect: Cornelius Schlotthauer

ThyssenKrupp Headquarters

• Design Team (Phase 1): Federico Dunkelberg, Jaime Serra Avila, Sophie le Bienvenu
• Design Team (Phase 2): Jan Hübener, Dillon Lin, Federico Dunkelberg, Gonzalo Carbajo, Liat Muller, Susanne Lettau, Fadi Mansour, Daniel Bearlecken
• Construction: Arup Berlin
• Energy & Climate: Transsolar Stuttgart
• Landscaping: ST Raum A
• Traffic: Arup London
• Fire: HHP West

ThyssenKrupp Headquarters

The importance of the new ThyssenKrupp Headquarters as the heart piece of the well-known international acting concern sets the challenge to create a landmark architectural design that is acknowledged far beyond the borders of Essen.

Along with the development of the new headquarters area, the urban masterplan includes the design of office buildings for the most important divisions, as well a multi-functional building, an academy and a hotel. It also solves the integration of an existing building on the site, together with some more subsidiary buildings orientated towards one central plaza to form the new quarter.

ThyssenKrupp Headquarters

Starting from this centre, axes span spiral-like and in streamlined shapes in all directions, creating a centrifugal field that forms the outline of the buildings and the surrounding landscape. Originated in such a way, the spatial development evokes images of dune landscapes or glacier fields, formed and polished by the elementary forces of nature such as wind, water and ice drift.

ThyssenKrupp Headquarters

The arrangement of the buildings within the headquarter area reacts to the functional interactions and organisational structures within the different divisions.

All prominent buildings are located directly next to the central plaza – the communicative centre – and, like a focal point, gain in height and volume within the sharp and diverging figure.

ThyssenKrupp Headquarters

The buildings of the operational divisions, the future development and the hotel are found towards the edges of the planning area. The central, star-shaped pedestrian and bicycle way system ties everything together and, at the same time, provides a connection to Essen city centre.

ThyssenKrupp Headquarters

ThyssenKrupp Headquarters

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Tags: Essen, Germany

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