North Rhine-Westphalia archive

Duisburg, Germany
Drawing © Ortner & Ortner Baukunst
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Architects
O&O Baukunst
Location
Schifferstraße 30-34, 47059 Duisburg, Germany
Year
2014

Towards the motorway and the inland port the NRW State Archive presents itself as a prominent brick building. An archive tower at the centre is added to the existing warehouse from the 1930s. The archive material, previously distributed in a number of different locations, can now be brought together and can be made visible in built terms as society’s memory. The façade openings and the skylights of the existing warehouse are closed up and the clinker brick façade is cleaned. The new storage tower is distinguished from the old brick structure by the use of a fine relief; the edges and surfaces are softer, less easily grasped by the eye. The five-storey addition that meanders along the inland port houses the foyer and administration, as well as a number of other functions.

Client
BLB NRW, Duisburg

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