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Since autumn 2007, the Opera House rebuilt piece by piece. Target that the space're perceived as a total area of design and developed according to the history of the place into a unity ", it is.
In a first Section was changed from autumn 2007 to spring 2008, the traffic flow in August 2008 to June 2009 was the second in a Rathenauplatz Phase transformed. In the 3rd
Construction phase is the transformation of green space planned at the opera. Here are umpflanzt including the parking garage entrances with strictly geometrically arranged hedgerows. Behind the opera created a hedge sculpture. This stage was to have begun in fall 2009. Since the funding is decided by the city already can be expected this spring with construction starts.
is in addition a 4th Construction phase of the renovation of the fixed space opera planned. There are eg the patterns of the hedges of the Rathenau Square will continue in the pavement. The 5th
and final section then includes the revision and integration of space at Kröpcke. With the realization of this phase of construction is not expected before completion of the Kröpcke Center (in 2012).
positive So the goal, the Opera House again making experience as a whole may be, it is with this concept in my opinion difficult to achieve. Too heavy here outweigh the mistakes that were made in the past:
1) Raising the level of the construction of the underground parking space in 1960, the opera is its slightly raised position, in contrast lost to their surroundings. (If you rantritt to the opera, you can see through the bars of the rest of the base)
2) The construction of the oversized Mövenpick-cafes in the 70 years the Shared space and has taken the place his place.
3) (An-) construction of the Expo enercity-cafes in the 90s has exacerbated this problem.
4) The extended Ständehausstraße on the Opera square separates the "place" with coffee from the rest of the place. Also interferes with the huge underground car park exit, which is used to supply the Kröpcke Center and the walkway.
already Followed The transformation and integration of the Rathenau Square at the opera, as well as the integration of the memorial, I think these are very successful.
