gmp FOCUS: The New Hans-Sachs-Haus in Gelsenkirchen
Library, concert, and reading room—the Hans-Sachs-Haus has been a multifunctional building from the beginning, dedicated to cultural events. The industrial town of Gelsenkirchen, up-and-coming in the 1920s, wanted to present itself as a modern city. After the war, large parts of the exceptional heritage of brick expressionism had been destroyed or damaged. In recent years, gmp architects have built a new building into an old facade, as a successful example of building within existing structures.
In this volume of the gmp FOCUS series, the architects present their approach and show the particularities of this task by means of plans and images. The architecture journalist Dirk Meyhöfer illuminates the significance of this building in a detailed essay, as well as the conversion in the context of the historical development of the Ruhr area.
2018
Jovis Verlag, Berlin
104 pages, 19 x 29.2 cm, hardcover
German/English
ISBN 978-3-86859-353-2
Edited by Volkwin Marg and Hubert Nienhoff
With an essay by Dirk Meyhöfer
Editorial direction: Detlef Jessen-Klingenberg, Berit Liedtke, Sarah Schöning
Picture editing: Trixi Hansen, Guido Brixner, Berit Liedtke
Translations: Hartwin Busch
Layout and typesetting: ON Grafik, Tom Wibberenz with Hendrik Sichler
Printing and binding: DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg
