The Angerhof is a building in
Munich
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that serves as a residential building, office building, hotel with restaurant, service location and parking garage.
Location
The location of the property is the street ''Oberanger'' near the ''
Marienplatz
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History
During the Middle Ages, markets and tournaments were held ...
'' and the ''
Viktualienmarkt
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The Viktualienmarkt developed from an original farmers' market to a popula ...
'', between Munich's oldest monastery St. Anna and the new
Jewish center
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on ''St-Jakobs-Platz''. The nearest stops of the
U-/
S-Bahn
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are the
Munich Marienplatz station and the
subway station ''Sendlinger Tor''.
Architecture
The Angerhof combines, in its horizontal construction, the classic uses of traditional
European
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townhouses for living, working and going out. On the ground floor there are retail stores and restaurants, in the floors above it are offices and in the fifth and sixth levels, on a total of 4,000 square meters,
condominium
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s were created – with three-meter-high ceilings and
roof terraces of up to 100 square meters. The interior architecture is reflected in its technically elaborate
facade. Behind the sand-colored
terracotta
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façade, light artist
Ingo Maurer installed digitally programmed "façade glow" made up of energy-optimized
LED lights
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and can be significantly more efficient than mos ...
. The Angerhof created a 1,000-square-meter inner
courtyard
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for the public that opens directly onto the newly created pedestrian zone on the lower Anger.
Construction and dates
Construction began in 2005 according to the plans of architects Otto Steidle and Johann Spengler. The
topping out
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ceremony took place in 2007 and the completion of the approx. 38,000 square meter floor spaced property was in 2009. The total construction costs amounted to approx. 150 million
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s.
The place where the Angerhof stands today, was known for a long time in the
post-war
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period as an "urban lumber pile". A post-war car park made of raw
concrete
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with a gas station blocked the development plans of city construction advocate Christiane Thalgott for a long time. Lord Mayor
Christian Ude
Christian Ude (born 26 October 1947) is a German politician who served as mayor of Munich from 1993 to 2014. He is a member of the German Social Democratic Party.
Career
Ude was born in Munich. From 1967 to 1969 he worked for the daily newspa ...
(
SPD
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) had not expected an urban construction before 2037, since that was how long the leasehold guaranteed of the parking garage existed. A solution was found when the
Wöhr + Bauer GmbH managing director Wolfgang Roeck made the suggestion at the turn of the millennium to place the parking garage at the same place in an underground car park.
Following the architectural competition for the Angerhof, the planning for the "Boulangerie Oberanger" followed from July to December 2003 - together by the construction department, planning department, district committee (BA) and the builder of the Angerhof, Wöhr + Bauer. On 17 February 2004, the BA, headed by Wolfgang Püschel, decided on the design from "real green" landscape architects. In May 2005, the city council approved the overall concept.
Particularities
* Shortly after the start of construction, in 2006,
Linde plc
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, as a tenant, secured almost all the office space for its new corporate headquarters.
* The new building received constant positive responses from the press. Above all, critics welcomed the urban upgrading of the area. For a while, one of the penthouse apartments was considered the "most expensive apartment in Germany" and aroused great media interest.
* In the high garage of the future penthouse apartments, Wöhr + Bauer GmbH put on a multimedia show about the Angers quarter on a 32hektar exhibit for Munich's 850th city birthday.
* Inside the courtyard is a large
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sculpture
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by Christopher Klein made out of
stainless steel
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. The production was carried out by the company Sandmeir in ''
Rain am Lech
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''.
The largest element of the sculpture has a diameter of over six meters.
* The newly created alley between the Jewish Center and Angerhof is illuminated by two rotating light sculptures from
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artist
Keith Sonnier
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in the colors red and blue.
* The artist Andrea Schmeing-Häusler immersed in the
cobblestones
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Setts, also called Belgian blocks, are often casually referred to as "cobbles", although a sett is distinct fr ...
at the Angerhof
sound stones that allow real church bells to ring through
digital technology.
Architecture Prize
Angerhof Munich was nominated for the "MIPIM-Award" 2009 in the category "Business Center" on 12 March 2009, at the international real estate fair MIPIM in
Cannes
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as one of only three buildings.
References
External links
Reportin the evening paper from 5 May 2008
picture galleryin the ''
Süddeutsche Zeitung
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reportin the ''
Süddeutsche Zeitung
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