Laying the foundation stone in Leonberg

Last week there was something to celebrate! Together with the board of directors of the Kreissparkasse and the mayor of Leonberg, Martin Georg Cohn, our project team and other planning participants laid the foundation stone for the savings bank’s new head office building in Leonberg. In accordance with the established tradition, the stone was filled with symbolic objects as well as a current issue of the local daily newspaper. The competition design is therefore now on its way to becoming a structural reality. We look forward to successful cooperation with all those involved in the planning!

 

The planned new building is part of a newly designed area with social housing and forms a contemporary "cornerstone" at the Sonnenkreuzung, the site of the former Oberes Tor or Upper Gate. Its shape is derived from the existing urban context. Slightly twisted, the head office building faces the Old Town, which also opens it up to the planned neighbouring residential development. Steps and recesses in the upper floors as well as the vertically structured facade with fine cornices create a striking structure. The new savings bank head office is consequently a self-confident and differentiated building with a standalone character, allowing the site to acquire its own identity.

 

Photo: Kreissparkasse Böblingen, Auer Weber

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