Visualisation: The parcel post hall could become a covered open space.
Visualisation: Open spaces and restaurants are planned for the neighbourhood park.
Visualisation: the flair in the future high-rise buildings
Design: The height of the high-rise buildings is derived from the span of the hall.
View on the Paketposthalle from the Friends towers
The post office has built a small hall into the parcel post hall. Here letters are sorted, 2020
1,600 precast concrete elements form a folded supporting structure.
The parcel post hall is over 23 metres high. It towers over the surrounding residential buildings.
View of the parcel post hall from Harisch-Lengauer-Straße, 2023
Planning area PaketPost
With a span of 148 metres, the hall construction of the former parcel post hall built in the 1960s is considered one of the most important engineering structures in the world! A residential quarter with 1,100 flats, offices with 3,000 workplaces, retail and commercial space, hotels, culture, social infrastructure and an elderly care facility are to be built on the surrounding 8.7-hectare site between Arnulfstrasse and Wilhelm-Hale-Strasse.
The listed parcel post hall is to form the centrepiece of this quarter. The architects from Herzog & de Meuron are proposing to remove the old fixtures. This would create a covered open space in which markets, concerts or sporting events could take place. The master plan also envisages two 155 metre high towers flanking the hall. They will have a mix of office, hotel and residential uses. The top floors are to be open to the public. The southern buildings will mainly house offices, while the northern buildings on Wilhelm-Hale-Straße and Arnulfstraße will mostly house flats and social infrastructure. The entire neighbourhood is being planned in accordance with the principles of socially responsible land use (SoBoN), which guarantees a fixed proportion of subsidised or affordable ("price-controlled") flats.
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Builder: Büschl Unternehmensgruppe
Planning: Herzog & de Meuron with Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten