Building for the State Parliament of Lower Saxony, Hanover, Germany Interior: blocher partners Photos: Heinrich Hecht
To meet the requirements of a modern-day parliament, Stuttgart-based architects, blocher partners, trans- formed the state parliament of Lower Saxony with its ensemble of the Leine Palace and post-war building by architect Dieter Oesterlen, both of which are protected as historic buildings. They added a new structure to the ensemble’s interior, which, with a glass plenary chamber and central portico, translates a contemporary understanding of democracy into timeless architecture. The members of parliament can now look through the glazed parts of the outstanding facade and out into the urban space all the way to the town hall.
The classicist facade of the former Leine Palace, designed by Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves, is the main entrance to the new, light-flooded portico, which acts as a central point from which other parts of the building branch off.
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