New building
55 flats, offices, restaurant, shops, kindergarten, hotel
Model 1:50: Andreas Bodi, 2000
Presentation of the model: June 2000 (exhibition in the town hall of Magdeburg)
Start of construction: December 19, 2003
Laying of foundation stone: March 19, 2004
Topping-out ceremony: March 4, 2005
Inauguration: October 3, 2005
Auf Initiative / on the initiative of Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft Stadt Magdeburg von 1954
Architekt Heinz M. Springmann (Ausführung / construction)
In the course of the transformation of Magdeburg's Cathedral Square, one of the first prefabricated slab buildings in the GDR, located on Breiter Weg, was replaced by Hundertwasser's innovative architecture.
The Hundertwasser project fits into an architecturally unique ensemble that includes a Gothic cathedral, an eleventh century Romanesque monastery and the state parliament built in a mixture of baroque and classical styles. At the same time it represents the antithesis of the nearby bank and other buildings with their austere, and rather cold, post-war architecture.
The western side of the building, facing onto Breiter Weg, as well as the side to the north exhibit relatively closed facades, while the rest of the ensemble, facing south and overlooking the Elbe river to the east, features ramps leading upwards, which have been landscaped - like all of the roof areas - and thereby returned to nature. The bands of ceramic material that run diagonally from bottom to top, structuring the facade, are extended up beyond the parapet like merlons in a battlement.
There are fifty-five residential units in the Green Citadel of Magdeburg, along with shops and cafés on the ground floor; on the upper floors there is also a kindergarten and a hotel.
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- Pm - pedagogiska magasinet, no. 1, February 2008, Stockholm, pp. 52/53 (c)
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- Ar'site, insert of no. 45, 2013, p 53 (and b)
- Femme Actuelle, Jeux voyage, February/March 2014, p. 20 (c)
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- Ar'site, insert of no. 48, 2015, pp. 3, 5 (c)
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- Postcard, Schöning Verlag, Lübeck, 2008
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Architecture 2008, teNeues, Kempen
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Architecture, Verlag Foto Pultar, Vienna, 2007
- Poster (2 versions), Verlag Foto Pultar, Vienna, undated
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Architecture, Borer & Wörner, Zug, 2008
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Jahresplaner 2008, Borer & Wörner, Zug
- Hundertwasser span-a-year Architecture Calendar 2009, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Architecture 2009, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Architecture 2009, teNeues, Kempen
- Hundertwasser Vertical Wall Calendar Architecture 2009, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Architecture 2010, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Architecture 2010, teNeues, Kempen
- Hundertwasser Vertical Wall Calendar Architecture 2010, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser span-a-year Architecture Calendar 2010, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Architecture 2011, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser Vertical Wall Calendar Architecture 2011, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser span-a-year Architecture Calendar 2011, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Architecture 2012, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser span-a-year Architecture Calendar 2012, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser Vertical Wall Calendar Architecture 2012, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser Pocket Art 2013, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Architecture 2013, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser Vertical Wall Calendar Architecture 2013, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser span-a-year Architecture Calendar 2013, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Post card, Wörner, Rutesheim, 2013 (landscape and portrait format)
- Hundertwasser span-a-year Architecture Calendar 2014, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Architecture 2014, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser Vertical Wall Calendar Architecture 2014, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
- Calendar, F. Hundertwasser Green Architecture 2014, Tushita Verlag, Duisburg
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Architecture 2015, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser Vertical Wall Calendar Architecture 2015, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser span-a-year Architecture Calendar 2015, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser Slim Architecture Calendar 2016, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (detail)
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Architecture 2016, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (detail)
- Personalised postage stamps, biberpost, Magdeburg, 2015 (10 different versions, each ? 0,52)
- Hundertwasser square Architecture Calendar 2016, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (c, detail)
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Architecture 2017, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (detail)
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Architecture 2017, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (square size) (detail)
- Hundertwasser Vertical Wall Calendar Architecture 2017, Verlag, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser span-a-year Architecture Calendar 2017, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (detail)
- Post card, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim, 2017 (AK-031)
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Architecture 2018, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (square size) (detail)
- Hundertwasser Vertical Wall Calendar Architecture 2018, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (detail)
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Architecture 2018, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (detail)
- Hundertwasser span-a-year Architecture Calendar 2018, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (detail)
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Architecture 2019, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (detail)
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Architecture 2019, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (square size) (detail)
- Hundertwasser span-a-year Architecture Calendar 2019, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (detail)
- Hundertwasser Vertical Wall Calendar Architecture 2019, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (detail)