Technical Administration Building of the municipality of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
The design of the new Technical Administration Building of the municipality of Düsseldorf by AllesWirdGut together with Hertl.Architekten rests on the foundation of a permeable plinth and articulates the large built volume required in the competition brief as a slender tower of four interlocked tall blocks. A cleft in this building part—kept deliberately low in relation to the surrounding houses—marks the park-side main entrance. Intensive planting on the facades and the plinth-area rooftops invites passing through, and lingering in, the little urban oasis.