New Town Centre of Bergkamen, Germany
Contract: 1993
Construction period: 1998
Design: Eckhard Gerber
Project team: Birgit Hassenteufel et al.
Client: Stadt Bergkamen und WBG Lünen und Hüttermann Schörken Threimer GbR (HST) und Unnaer Kreisbau und Siedlungsgesellschaft
A “market roof”, forming a large gate, opens up the new town centre towards Ebertstraße. Here, an urban plaza acts as the prelude to a sequence of spaces followed by a generous stairway that connects the upper and the lower market squares with each other and stresses the spatial layout.
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