Architect Reiner Becker:
"We avoided to plan a library that is competing with the Bauhaus buildings. The building has a reduced and reserved appearance. You enter the library through the former Kaufhalle (a supermarket). Inside we have the "Bücherbox" as a centerpiece of the whole building and only a small amount of carefully selected coloured items. The eye catcher of the building is the red Marmoleum Walton floor.
Project name | Neue Bibliotheken im Bauhaus Dessau, Dessau |
Location | Dessau, Deutschland |
Date of completion | 2012 |
Architect | Reiner Becker Architekten BDA, Berlin |
Installation by | Schülers Fußbodentechnik, Dessau-Roßlau |
Building Contractor | Landesbetrieb Bau- und Liegenschaftsmanagement Sachsen-Anhalt |
Photographer | Werner Huthmacher, Berlin |