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Rheinauhafen Crane Houses

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Location: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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3. Rhine Meadows, Rodenkirchen – Weißer Bogen on the Rhine loop from Cologne

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Irmgard macht Meter

November 6, 2021

Very creative crane houses on the Rhine

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Karl unterwegs 🥾🚲

November 7, 2021

After the cathedral there are other landmarks of Cologne

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April 22, 2024

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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1. View of the Südbrücke (South Bridge) – Old Market loop from Köln-Mülheim

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