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Altmarkt-Galerie QUICK FACTS Location Dresden, Germany May 2015 ULI Case Studies Altmarkt-Galerie QUICK FACTS Location Dresden, Germany Project type Mixed use—three or more uses Site size 26,150 square metres (281,476 sq ft) Land uses Retail, office, hotel Keywords/special features Urban regeneration, historic building renovation, urban integration, natural air ventilation, regional and international tenant mix, daylight simulation, urban perforation/high number of entrances, central city development, pedestrian-friendly design, transit-oriented development Website PAULINE FABRY PAULINE www.altmarkt-galerie-dresden.de Altmarkt-Galerie comprises both historic and modern structures. The second-phase extension of the project opened up Altmarkt-Galerie to Dresden’s city centre for the first time. The first phase was contained within a Project address courtyard of residential buildings. Webergasse 1 01067 Dresden PROJECT SUMMARY Germany Altmarkt-Galerie is a mixed-use retail development in the centre of Dresden, Owner Deutsche EuroShop AG Germany, that features a shopping centre containing 64,400 square metres Heegbarg 36 (693,200 sq ft) of gross leasable area (GLA) that was originally opened in 2002 22391 Hamburg Germany and later expanded in 2009–2011. The project also includes a 5,300-square- www.deutsche-euroshop.de metre (57,049 sq ft) hotel and 7,300 square metres (78,577 sq ft) of office space. Developer ECE Projektmanagement GmbH & Co. KG The first phase of the project includes three modern blocks, arranged north to Heegbarg 30 south in a courtyard—surrounded on three sides by existing four- to six-storey 22391 Hamburg Germany residential apartment buildings. The modern blocks are connected by glass- www.ece.com covered pedestrian walkways. An extension, which opened in 2011, added 19,200 Initial investors Deutsche EuroShop AG square metres (206,700 sq ft) across a T bar–shaped block at the north of the Heegbarg 36 original site. During the expansion, an existing 1960s office block was demolished 22391 Hamburg Germany and replaced with a modern building, while a listed building was renovated. The TLG Treuhand Liegenschaftsgesellschaft mbH expansion added 93 retail shops on three floors, with offices and a hotel above. Hausvogteiplatz 10117 Berlin Germany Altmarkt-Galerie is a mixed-use shopping centre for Dresden in many respects, as it represents ECE/Otto Family in the heart of Dresden with a retail GLA of a key piece of the city’s urban regeneration. Heegbarg 30 64,400 square metres (693,200 sq ft), 200 Conceived soon after the reunification of East 22391 Hamburg Germany shops, a 5,300-square-metre (57,049 sq ft) Germany with West Germany in 1990, Altmarkt- hotel, and 7,300 square metres (78,577 sq Galerie has helped Dresden find a new centre ft) of offices. The project has been significant as well as a new architectural identity. Owing www.uli.org/casestudies Altmarkt-Galerie Case Study 1 to the scheme’s strategic importance in the site is that it was surrounded on all four sides which was a densely populated urban area urban landscape, the local government has long by existing buildings, with no direct street before the World War II bombing.” supported Altmarkt-Galerie. frontage on any of the sides. This presented To guide the development, ECE used a The shopping centre and mixed-use an interesting design challenge. The site had steering committee, whose members included scheme have provided the city with a new heart, previously been occupied by retail uses, so there city council officers and ECE executives, a body which was not previously obvious in the city. was a history of retail operating on the site. Hoffmann sees as key to the success of the Dresden’s lack of identity is a legacy of heavy The development and long-term manage- development. “We had outstanding cooperation World War II bombing as well as the socialist ment of Altmarkt-Galerie have been directed by from officials, and full support from the local urban planning that favoured wide, spacious ECE, which was also the general planner and government and politicians,” he says. boulevards, concrete office towers, and large leasing agent for the project. The initial investors residential blocks, ignoring to a large extent the included ECE/Otto Family, Deutsche EuroShop, Development Background historical town layout. and TLG Treuhand Liegenschaftsgesellschaft. ECE first visited the city in 1990, prompted Altmarkt-Galerie has been owned by Deutsche by its interest in investing in the former East The Site and the Development Team EuroShop AG since 2013. Germany, newly reunified with West Germany. Located south of the historic core of the city, Dresden’s city council has maintained a While Dresden was struggling with its transition Altmarkt-Galerie is adjacent to Altmarkt Square, high-profile role in bringing both the first and from a centrally planned economy to a market once a thriving public square for market traders. second phases of Altmarkt-Galerie to fruition. economy, the developer believed it was only The site links two previously distinct parts of Although the city had three different mayors a matter of time before the city would see the city. The centre is sited between Dresden’s before ECE finally got approval, this did not halt an increase in prosperity. Retail supply in the historic district—which includes Zwinger ECE’s project progress, as Burkhard Hoffmann, central city was lacking, and ECE felt that a big Palace, the Semper Opera House, and the ECE Development’s managing director, explains: opportunity existed to bring new stores, formats, famed church known as Frauenkirche—and “All three mayors strongly believed in that store sizes, and retailers to the city’s heart. Prager Strasse, the city’s main shopping street. location; they believed in ECE and strongly At the same time, Dresden’s city council This means the location is well positioned as supported the project. Over those years, it was was looking for a way to revitalise the town. both a meeting place and point of attraction for clear that the vast majority of politicians in the Fundamentally, Dresden needed a project that residents and tourists alike. city’s parliament wanted to see a big shopping would create a lively neighborhood in the city. One of the most unusual aspects of the centre in Dresden in this almost-derelict area, The city needed retail that would attract footfall roughly 26,000-square-metre (281,500 sq ft) PAULINE FABRY PAULINE Atlmarkt-Galerie is adjacent to Altmarkt Square, a thriving public square in the heart of Dresden. 2 Altmarkt-Galerie Case Study www.uli.org/casestudies within the city, away from the shopping outlets Development Concept and Site on the city’s periphery. Acquisition This led to a partnership between the In 1993, when the design competition was developer and the city council. In 1993, ECE, organised, the Altmarkt-Galerie plot was mainly the city government, and state-owned Treuhand, in the hands of the state-owned company the main plot owner, cofinanced an urban Treuhand, established to privatise all state- design competition to find farsighted ideas that owned companies and assets of the former East would offer an identifiable urban centre. “No Germany. “It wasn’t clear at this point that we one knew where the heart of the city would be. would be future owners of the site,” explains We had around five inner-city locations that we Hoffmann. could have used for a huge shopping centre,” Architects Manfred Schomers and Rainer says Hoffmann. Schürmann won the urban design competition. Visually, the city reflected its difficult history. The first concept that was prepared was not The legacy of large-scale bombing in February ideally laid out for shopping centre use with all its 1945, which destroyed 647 hectares (1,600 ac) functionalities. It showed three blocks of buildings of Dresden’s city centre, was evident. Impersonal that were not connected to each other, but were socialist architecture sat alongside baroque, separated by open (i.e., not covered by any kind Renaissance, and classical structures that had of roof) streets. These buildings were, in turn, PAULINE FABRY PAULINE survived the Allied bombings. Huge open spaces surrounded by long blocks of residential buildings The centre is sited between Dresden’s historic and wide streets—characteristic of socialist on three sides that created a visual barrier. district—which includes Zwinger Palace, the Semper urban planning—meant the city did not have a Opera House, and the church known as Frauenkirche— human scale. and Prager Strasse, the city’s main shopping street. STÄDTISCHES VERMESSUNGSAMT DRESDEN VERMESSUNGSAMT STÄDTISCHES Altmarkt-Galerie includes 64,400 square metres (693,200 sq ft) of retail space, 200 shops, a 5,300-square-metre (57,049 sq ft) hotel, and 7,300 square metres (78,577 sq ft) of offices. The project is surrounded on three sides by residential blocks. The development represented a key piece of the city’s urban regeneration. www.uli.org/casestudies Altmarkt-Galerie Case Study 3 An intensive discussion among the These included prominent entrances located in 1962. These retail buildings were demolished architects, the municipality, and the developer at portals on the exterior of the residential in order to make room for Altmarkt-Galerie. The started to create a more detailed and work- buildings. residential blocks still remain. able layout, which was adapted to meet the After the investors bought the plot in 1997, First phase. The first phase of the develop- requirements of a shopping centre—at the construction began in 1998 and the first phase ment consisted of three new three- to four- same time taking the original block structure was finished in 2002. storey buildings in a large courtyard within the from the urban design competition into ring of residential buildings.
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