A building as a political Last Saturday presented the designs for the modification of the diet. The top ranked design looks like this:
Source: competitionline.de
The political Whether the old Oesterlen-Chamber, will be torn down and the glass temple of the architect Yi is being built decide in a few weeks, a commission of representatives of the parliamentary factions.
It is not anymore depends on what individual politicians or even the people want, but only what the parties intend as a whole.
Greens and the Left are opposed to the demolition, mainly for financial reasons.
The SPD is undecided, but will vote for the first-ranked draft because Stephan Weil, OB of Hanover, the draft endorsed.
CDU and FDP do the new parliament building. Above all, Hermann Dinkla, the parliament president, who fought fiercely for a new building.
The architecture The glass temple Yi meets fully the spirit of the times (the architects). On the hypocrisy of the supposed transparency, the architects and politicians so would like in the Diet, I would like not at all. This was done here
and in a pretty good editorial in the HAZ of yesteryear.
Let the draft look like Yi from the line side still very good to expose the weaknesses in particular in view of the Leinstraße.
stands at a distance of 14 meters to the line lock of the new Chamber and developed no relation to the neo-classical building - even though Yi has tried to "congenial to work with Laves. The poor Laves would turn in his grave. He himself had in 1820 a draft to complete the carabiner developed by the East Wing, but was never realized:
Source: Diet-niedersachsen.de
Laves The draft would have both the symmetry in the Leinstraße left and right made the portico, and the symmetry of Waterloo square.
Some of the submitted designs for a new Chamber took this idea, but eliminated either the same (nps tchoban voss from Berlin):
or received only a recognition (Fritze and Mueller-Giebel from Ahlen):
Source: HAZ.de,
competitionline.de Overall, it must be said that the new building is one of the old Chamber Leineschloss a problem.
A direct extension provides the most Cases is not very good from a stand-alone building, the castle can be mutilated back.
From 22 February will be issued all draft public in the lower lobby. Open daily from 10.00-18.00 clock (until March 7).
I'll just watch.
Addendum: A draft, which I also like and which I would like to see again in any case more precise, this one from Mijic Architects from Italy: Architectural
extravagance, while a straight front to Leinstraße.
The model is unfortunately not sufficient to form a detailed opinion.