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From Department Store to 'Stadtgalerie'
Buildings for retail trade by Walter Brune
ISBN/EAN: 9783868591057
Umbreit-Nr.: 998080
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 176 S.
Format in cm: 1.9 x 30.9 x 24.2
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 19.04.2011
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- Developments in retail architecture in the second half of the twentieth century considerably altered our inner cities. Walter Brune, one of Germany's great architects and business personalities, had a strong influence on this architecture during his sixty-year career and he was also a strong critic of its negative impact. He advocates the preservation of lively inner city zones not least because of the negative effects of oversized, non-integrated shopping centers. His longterm activities as department store architect for the Karstadt group began in the 1950s. His RhineRuhr Center in Mülheim, built in 1970, was one of the first shopping centers to be erected in Germany. Based on the experience that he had gathered over the decades in developing, building and running retail real estate, he was able to test his idea for an inner citycompatible shopping center with the KöGalerie, built from 1983 to 1986 in Düsseldorfa "Stadtgalerie" that aimed to preserve a lively innercity. His most important retail buildings are presented in this volume.