Jahrhunderthalle

The former Gas Power Centre of the cast steel company „Bochumer Verein für Bergbau und Gußstahlfabrikation“, an industrial listed building from the year 1903, was reconstructed at the beginning of the millennium to a concert hall and extended by a large foyer and a cloakroom building. The historic construction could be sensitively toughened by means of continually cambered cables. The installation of a structural heating screed provided intelligent strengthening for the basement slabs. The new building construction of steel was abutted on an old external wall and suspended via the toughened cables on the existing construction.

Thanks to the ingenious structural framework planning, only a few parts of the old structure had to be strengthened. This resulted not only in a very economical solution, but also appealed especially because of the barely recognisable intrusion in the old, listed basic structure of the building. The Jahrhunderthalle Bochum is the main venue for the international cultural festival „Ruhrtriennale“ since the completion of the reconstruction in 2003.

Architect
Petzinka Pink Architekten, Düsseldorf

Client
LEG Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft NRW GmbH, Dortmund

Gross area
18.000 sqm

Gross volume
200.000 cbm

Awards
Auszeichnung Deutscher Stahlbaupreis 2004, Engere Wahl
Balthasar-Neumann-Preis 2004
BDA Auszeichnung Guter Bauten 2004