Monday, May 3, 2010

300-million vision to Bonn's peeling Sick



Bonn - It is one of the major construction projects in the city. On the former site of 90,000 square meters large Portland cement plant in Oberkassel 2010, until it becomes a piece of Bonn's future in the best locations.
Since a few days to run on the site on the right bank of the preparations for the construction of the fourth construction site that the area north to the Konrad-Adenauer-Bridge closes down.
The work on the so-called "Bonner Bogen" to be completed by early 2010. Then here are offices for around 4000 people, a five-star hotel with 200 rooms, restaurants, exclusive meeting rooms, a daycare center and apartments, shops and beach are in the best position Rhine. All surrounded by approximately 64 000 square meters of green space.
Initiator of the ambitious project that has already completed about a quarter and work in the already 1,000 people at 21 companies, the Bonn Visio. "We want to create the" Bonner Bogen "a functioning, vibrant location at which to develop vitality and creativity," says Louis Frede by the management of Bonn Visio.
Guarantor are also the many small details, like a conference room in the water tower, or a boat landing along the Rhine and cherry trees. The overall aim is to be re-planted 270 trees on the site. The planning for the entire project comes from the pen of the renowned architect from Bonn, Karl-Heinz Schommer.
In planning, there is quite environmentally aware: One of the largest geothermal power plants in Europe is more than ten wells to keep the temperature constant in the buildings, thus saving approximately 400 tonnes of CO2 a year.