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Heidelberg Congress Center in Baden-Württemberg
31 May 2022
Design: Degelo Architekten
Location: Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Photos: Degelo Architekten
Heidelberg Congress Center in Germany
The shell is complete, the scaffolding has been removed from most external areas: for the first time a real impression of what the new Heidelberg Congress Center will look like can be made. Just a couple of minutes by foot from the main railway station, in the city’s new “Bahnstadt” (“Railway city”) quarter, a generous event location for conferences and congresses is being developed.

A site like this has been sorely missed in Heidelberg, which has such a focus on science and research, but thanks to this IBA-project that will now be rectified.
The Basel-based architecture bureau Degelo Architekten had won the competition for the project already back in 2017: with an expressive building, which initially appears compact and rather plain on the outside, but reveals a high degree of complexity and subtleness once inside.

The facade is made – just like the famous castle towering over the city – from local red sandstone which on closer inspection reveals a slightly waved structuring.

This evokes impressions of a theatre curtain, and the resulting interplay between light and shadow upon its surface provides the otherwise massive...