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Challenge: Architecture VI (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Location: Heidelberg - Print Media Acádemy
Date: Aug 16, 2010
Aperture: 5,6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Architecture
Date Uploaded: Aug 16, 2010
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The Building
The Print Media Academy is an impressive building in the heart of Heidelberg. This 50-meter-high glass cube is not only beautiful, but also chock full of metaphors and symbols alluding to printing processes and the history of printing
The moment you enter the building, you grasp its credo: thinking requires space. From the lobby, you can look all the way up to the 11th floor. There is room for your ideas to grow. The two towers containing meeting rooms clearly represent the cylinders found in printing presses.
The building was constructed between March 1998 and March 2000. It is square, measuring 37 meters on each side, and 50 meters high. The façade has a double-shell construction, and it is possible to walk through the space between the shells.
The following elements can be seen from the outside through the transparent façade: the two "cylinder towers" holding seminar rooms, the auditorium surrounded by a pool of water, four glass elevators, escalators and the angular shapes of the office floors.
Architects:
Hensel-Bechtloff-Partner, Hamburg;
H.J. Schröder, Architect BDA/Partner H.P. Stichs, Heidelberg |
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