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Stuttgart – An Architecture Walk
The Swabian metropolis not only sets new standards in the automotive industry with the world’s well-known brands Mercedes and Porsche. In the city, elegance and dynamism are reflected across the epochs of architecture.
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Green city
Stuttgart is nestled between hills and vineyards. The space for the city is limited. However, it was built at all times much. The state capital of Baden-Württemberg is characterised by a charming mixture of historic and modern buildings such as the towering TV tower. It was built in 1956 as the world’s first structure of its kind.
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The Porsche Museum
In Stuttgart, the headquarters of the sports manufacturer, the car the Porsche was in Zuffenhausen, 2009-the Museum opened. The bold design in futuristic Design, designed by the Viennese architects Delugan Meissl, offers plenty of space for the presentation of legendary Porsche models. All of the be driving. In the “Museum” roaring out of a six-cylinder boxer engine with 600 HP.
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Mercedes-Benz-Museum
In the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart-Cannstatt, the over 125-year history of the automobile has spectacular looking house. As the car builders, the Dutch architects Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos of aluminum and glass for the envelope of the Museum. Each of the 1800 triangular window is one of a kind.
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Castle square
The Baroque garden in front of the New Palace is the Central square of the city centre. In the summer of Stuttgart as a second living room. In the 1950s, a Hotel was actually at the point of the war, the New castle was destroyed planned. The citizens, however, were for the reconstruction. The palatial residence is now the headquarters of the Ministry of Finance and economy.
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Old Castle
The Old castle was four hundred years the centre of power of the rulers of Württemberg. Its courtyard is a magnificent piece of Renaissance from the 16th century. Century. Unusual for this time of the pillars of the Corinthian capitals, whose vertical bends up to the top of the Column. In the rooms of the national Museum today shows the dragon’s den of württemberg.
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Königsbau
The promenade of king street after the late classicist Königsbau of the 19th century. Century named. The court architect Johann Michael Knapp, and Christian von Leins designed the representative building as a venue. At its back, the glass roof of the Königsbau-Passagen, a shopping center domes since 2006, with five floors.
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Weissenhof-Siedlung
A first trademark for a modern Building in Stuttgart, the Weissenhof-settlement of 21 houses. They were designed in 1927 by avant-garde architects such as Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier as a vision of the future. Now the settlement is as an icon of the Modern point of attraction for people interested in architecture from all over the world.
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New State Gallery
A public footpath, the New state gallery through the Museum complex. The unconventional design of the British architect James Stirling in the year 1984, the combined curved structure, colorful steel constructions and historical elements. In the post-modern construction is the art of the 20th century. Century issued.
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Museum of art
Since 2005, the glass cube reflects in the king’s road during the day, the sky, and at night he is lit from the inside. The Berlin architects Hascher and Jehle-designed building with 5000 square meters of exhibition space for the Museum of art. Here is the most important work is the collection of expressionists Otto Dix at home.
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Market hall
The Stuttgart-based can go every day in one of the most beautiful market halls in Germany, shopping. The art Nouveau building according to plans by the architect Martin Elsässer was inaugurated in January 1914. In a 18-Meter-high light-flooded hall with international and Swabian specialities, such as maultaschen and Spätzle are sold.
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Station
The train station is a master Builder, Paul Bonatz in 1928 made headlines in connection with the Stuttgart 21 project. The monument-protected station is to be converted into an underground through station. The billion project, against which the citizens protested strongly, is still under construction.
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City library
Who in Stuttgart in the evening of the reading material, they can provide since 2011, in the city library after 21 o’clock with supplies. Half a Million books will fit in the cube with a footprint of 44 by 44 meters. The idea for the symmetric building with a facade of boxes of glass blocks comes from the South Korean architect, Eun Young Yi.
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Green city
Stuttgart is nestled between hills and vineyards. The space for the city is limited. However, it was built at all times much. The state capital of Baden-Württemberg is characterised by a charming mixture of historic and modern buildings such as the towering TV tower. It was built in 1956 as the world’s first structure of its kind.
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The Porsche Museum
In Stuttgart, the headquarters of the sports manufacturer, the car the Porsche was in Zuffenhausen, 2009-the Museum opened. The bold design in futuristic Design, designed by the Viennese architects Delugan Meissl, offers plenty of space for the presentation of legendary Porsche models. All of the be driving. In the “Museum” roaring out of a six-cylinder boxer engine with 600 HP.
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Mercedes-Benz-Museum
In the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart-Cannstatt, the over 125-year history of the automobile has spectacular looking house. As the car builders, the Dutch architects Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos of aluminum and glass for the envelope of the Museum. Each of the 1800 triangular window is one of a kind.
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Castle square
The Baroque garden in front of the New Palace is the Central square of the city centre. In the summer of Stuttgart as a second living room. In the 1950s, a Hotel was actually at the point of the war, the New castle was destroyed planned. The citizens, however, were for the reconstruction. The palatial residence is now the headquarters of the Ministry of Finance and economy.
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Old Castle
The Old castle was four hundred years the centre of power of the rulers of Württemberg. Its courtyard is a magnificent piece of Renaissance from the 16th century. Century. Unusual for this time of the pillars of the Corinthian capitals, whose vertical bends up to the top of the Column. In the rooms of the national Museum today shows the dragon’s den of württemberg.
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Königsbau
The promenade of king street after the late classicist Königsbau of the 19th century. Century named. The court architect Johann Michael Knapp, and Christian von Leins designed the representative building as a venue. At its back, the glass roof of the Königsbau-Passagen, a shopping center domes since 2006, with five floors.
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Weissenhof-Siedlung
A first trademark for a modern Building in Stuttgart, the Weissenhof-settlement of 21 houses. They were designed in 1927 by avant-garde architects such as Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier as a vision of the future. Now the settlement is as an icon of the Modern point of attraction for people interested in architecture from all over the world.
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New State Gallery
A public footpath, the New state gallery through the Museum complex. The unconventional design of the British architect James Stirling in the year 1984, the combined curved structure, colorful steel constructions and historical elements. In the post-modern construction is the art of the 20th century. Century issued.
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Museum of art
Since 2005, the glass cube reflects in the king’s road during the day, the sky, and at night he is lit from the inside. The Berlin architects Hascher and Jehle-designed building with 5000 square meters of exhibition space for the Museum of art. Here is the most important work is the collection of expressionists Otto Dix at home.
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Market hall
The Stuttgart-based can go every day in one of the most beautiful market halls in Germany, shopping. The art Nouveau building according to plans by the architect Martin Elsässer was inaugurated in January 1914. In a 18-Meter-high light-flooded hall with international and Swabian specialities, such as maultaschen and Spätzle are sold.
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Station
The train station is a master Builder, Paul Bonatz in 1928 made headlines in connection with the Stuttgart 21 project. The monument-protected station is to be converted into an underground through station. The billion project, against which the citizens protested strongly, is still under construction.
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City library
Who in Stuttgart in the evening of the reading material, they can provide since 2011, in the city library after 21 o’clock with supplies. Half a Million books will fit in the cube with a footprint of 44 by 44 meters. The idea for the symmetric building with a facade of boxes of glass blocks comes from the South Korean architect, Eun Young Yi.