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Rheinauhafen Crane Houses

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    November 6, 2021

    Very creative crane houses on the Rhine

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      November 7, 2021

      After the cathedral there are other landmarks of Cologne

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        In the northern section of Cologne's Rheinauhafen, a striking and widely visible building ensemble was built between 2006 and 2010 with the three crane houses.
        The urban development competition announced by the city of Cologne in 1992 was won by the architects Hadi Teherani (BRT-Architekten, Hamburg) and Alfons Linster.
        The high-rise buildings are characterized by their crane shape, which is typical of cranes, with their right-angled cantilevered arms reaching all the way to the Rhine. The three rows of crane houses are a free interpretation of El Lissitzky's utopian cloud arches from 1924 and thus a new typology of high-rise buildings.
        The crane houses are 61 meters high, with the cantilevered crane arm in the form of two five-story building blocks pushing in the air towards the Rhine at a height of 40 meters (above the ninth floor). The total length of the upper floors is approximately 70 metres, that of the cantilevered floors 48 metres and the total width 33 metres.

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          Location: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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