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Düsseldorf ’s
Media Harbour
Culture,
communication and
creativity
Düsseldorf ’s
Media Harbour
The development of part of the old harbour into prime office space
and a new trendy district was a successful urban planning project
that has served as a role model for similar projects in Germany.
From commercial harbour to
architectural showcase
When structural change set in during the seventies
and eighties it became obvious that the around 212
hectare commercial harbour site wouldn’t be needed
for its origina l pur pose any longer. However, t he
harbour’s location close to the city centre offered a
unique opportunity to transform it into an attractive
district with offices, restaurants and hotels.
The city council decided to close the Berger Hafen
and Zollhafen sections of the harbour in 1976. The
wet dock was filled in to create the land on which the
Rheinturm tower and the Landtag parliament building today stand. And the WDR broadcasting company’s new building was constructed on the site of
the old customs harbour (Zollhafen).
Work to convert Kaistraße and Speditionstraße into
the Media Harbour began in 1989, resulting in what
is today known as Düsseldorf ’s Architecture Row, a
trendy office district with a diverse mix of tenants
and a lively restaurant scene. Soon, there will also be
residential properties in the Media Harbour. The
transition from commercial harbour to Media Harbour ref lects t he fundamenta l changes t hat have
taken place in Düsseldorf ’s economy. Today, the city
is predominantly a service hub with a strong industrial background. This same structural change is also
evident in the Media Harbour, with the media, the
movers and the shakers in the foreground and the
typical harbour industries on the land spits further back.
Past and present
Plot for plot, each site was developed to ref lect its
future user’s requirements. An urban planning competition was also held by the city council, but only
for the areas surrounding Speditionstraße and Franziusstraße. These efforts not to force the area into a
monotonous architectural straightjacket have resulted
in some impressive results and an inspiring diversity
of buildings. Listed warehouses have been transformed
into trendy, modern offices, with historical buildings in
new outfits standing alongside brand new architecture.
Düsseldorf’s Media Harbour 3
The works of famous German and
international architects against the
stunning backdrop of historical architecture have helped to forge the Media
Harbour’s international reputation.
Despite all the development work
that has taken place, the Media Harbour is still steeped in atmosphere.
The commercial harbour, with its quay
walls, stairways, cast-iron bollards
and railings dating back to 1896, as
well as the railway tracks and cranes
on the former dockside, are now
listed as historical monuments. And
the old customs harbour is now a
marina for boats and yachts.
Form and function: colourful
contemporary architecture in
the Media Harbour
If want to see some of the very best
examples of modern-day architecture, Düsseldorf ’s Media Harbour
is the place to go. It’s a genuine architectural tourism location that has
attracted vast numbers of visitors over
the years, many of them to see Frank
O. Gehry’s leaning towers.
Düsseldor f Media
Harbour: architecture
and atmosphere.
The New York Times asked, “Why
haven’t we got any towers like these
here?” and the English daily The
Independent headlined a report on the
multicoloured Colorium, “Why didn’t we build that
here?” In the German version of Monopoly, you can
buy the Media Harbour for EUR 1.4 million and the
cards feature a picture of the Gehry buildings.
School textbooks also cite the Media Harbour as a
successful and groundbreaking example of urban
planning.
Buildings designed by renowned international
architects such as William Alsop, David Chipperfield, Jo Coenen, Steven Holl, Fumihiko Maki,
Murphy/Jahn and Claude Vasconi stand alongside
German designs by BM+P Beucker Maschlanka
und Partner, Harald Deilmann, Döring Dahmen
Joeressen Architekten, ingenhoven architects,
Gatermann + Schossig Architekten, Grimbacher
Nogales Architekten, HPP Hentrich-Petschnigg
& Partner, Professor Eller, parade architekten,
Professor Wansleben, pinkarchitektur, RKW Rhode
Kellermann Wawrowsky and sop architekten.
Other highlights include the FLOAT by Renzo Piano
(no. 48), and above all the new headquarters of
trivago designed by sop architekten. Private invest-
ments of more than EUR 1.2 billion have been
made here since development work on the Media
Mile first began.
Culture, communication creativity, media,
fashion, movers & shakers
Around 800 companies are now based in an area formerly dominated by gloomy empty warehouses. All
of them enjoy the unique waterside atmosphere and
profit from the Media Harbour’s image. Many of the
companies that have based themselves in the Media
Harbour are in the media, information and communication or advertising industries. They include
Landesanstalt für Medien LfM, Europäische Zentrum
für Medienkompetenz ECMC and the WDR broadcasting centre. Filmstiftung NRW, one of the biggest
film funds in Europe, was one of the first companies
to move to the Media Harbour.
It is estimated that some 9,000 people work in and
around the Media Harbour, and on the neighbouring
land spits and streets. The Media Harbour’s image as
a prime office location and its impressive architecture
make it a coveted business address for fashion companies, law firms and advertising agencies. Its mix of
architecture and atmosphere has encouraged many
fashion labels to relocate their headquarters or marketing companies to the Rhine. Shiseido’s head office
is firmly anchored in the Media Harbour. There are
also dozens of pubs, restaurants and bistros which
make the Media Harbour a trendy location for
lunchtime and evening socialising, especially the
area between Handelshafen and Hammer Straße.
There are also four very impressive hotels there:
Hyatt Regency, Radisson Blu, Courtyard by Marriott
and INNSIDE by Meliá Düsseldorf Hafen in the
Colorium building.
The Media Harbour has an excellent local supply
infrastructure from doctor’s surgery to pharmacy,
bank to post office, and photography store to gym.
The restaurants, bars and clubs along Hammer
Straße are popular destinations for the young crowd.
Since 2014 there has been a new tramline running
into the Media Harbour (see insert page).
Start-ups in the
Media Harbour!
Düsseldorf is becoming a magnet for start-ups, and the Media Harbour is
turning into a hub for new companies: trivago, the biggest hotel search
engine in the world with 80 million users per month, is constructing its
new company headquarters on Kasselstraße.
The story of trivago’s meteoric rise to success in
Düsseldorf is worthy of a movie. It is the f lagship
start-up of the state capital, and will soon employ
up to 2,000 people. One block up, the new start-up
centre STARTPLATZ Düsseldorf has opened its
doors in the Flossi building.
Start-up hub and university campus
In 2011, the European Media and Business Academy,
a private university, moved its campus onto three
f loors of the Colorium building. EMBA Düsseldorf
offers 15 degree courses in subjects such as Applied
Media, Business Management and Digital Business
Management. It also collaborates with many Düsseldorf-based companies, which appreciate the students’
innovative ideas.
STARTPLATZ Düsseldorf, a new start-up centre,
opened its doors in the Flossi Haus building a little
further down Speditionstraße in summer 2015. It
offers business start-ups an ideal location with everything under one roof so that they can transform their
A fresh breeze in the Media Harbour: STARTPL ATZ Düsseldorf inspires the Media Harbour by providing a new home for the start-up scene.
Düsseldorf’s Media Harbour 5
business idea into a f lourishing enterprise and create
new jobs. STARTPLATZ offers small office units and
secretarial ser vices, as well as experts, consultants
a nd f ina ncia l professionals. Most of a l l, t hough,
t here are both established companies t hat prof it
from t he young creative individua ls a nd want to
collaborate with them, as well as other start-ups that
face similar challenges. The Economic Development
Office orchestrated this project as part of its StartUp
initiative and has an office at the new start-up centre.
Kaistraße/Zollhof and the eastern section of
Speditionstraße are finished
Seeing and being seen – on the Living Bridge.
The development on the 15 hectare site at Kaistraße/
Zollhof was completed first. The second phase of the
Media Harbour development continued on an 11.3
hectare site on the opposite land spit on Speditionstraße. The majority of tenants on this area opposite
Kaistraße (the eastern section of Speditionstraße) are
in the media, art and culture, design and advertising
industries, though some are in fashion, catering and
consultancy services. At the end of Speditionstraße,
the last development to be completed was the twin
tower ensemble consisting of the Hyatt Regency
Hotel and offices.
The western section of Speditionstraße is in
the planning phase
On the western side of the Speditionstraße peninsular an office tower is being built directly next to the
twin towers. Over the next few years, this will also
be the site of the first residential development in the
Media Harbour, spectacular high-rise apartment
buildings by pinkarchitektur. On Franziusstraße/
Holzstraße, a new building by star architect Renzo
Piano is in the planning: the FLOAT.
A visualisation of the new trivago headquarters, d ue for
completion in 2018.
The Living Bridge
A pedestrian bridge provides a fast-track route
between Kaistraße and Speditionstraße. With its
three-storey glass cube restaurant extending across
all three levels of the bridge pontoon, it is a popular
meeting place. In the summer months, the bridge is
the perfect place to take a stroll, meet friends or sit
down to enjoy the view of the Gehry buildings, the
Düsseldorf skyline and the Rhine. The Living Bridge
provides first-row seats at the waterside!
Guided tours/sightseeing
Media Harbour tour
` Düsseldorf Marketing & Tourismus GmbH
www.duesseldorf-tourismus. de/medienhafen
Phone: +49 (0)211 17202854
Panorama boat trips including Media Harbour
` Düsseldorf Marketing & Tourismus GmbH
www.duesseldorf-tourismus.de/rheinschifffahrt
Phone: +49 (0)211 17202854
willkommen@duesseldorf-tourismus.d e
Guided tours
` Düsseldorfer Stadtführer e. V. Focus on architecture, history and economic development
Phone: +49 (0)177 4283548
info@duesseldorfer-stadtfuehrer.de
www.duesseldorfer-stadtfuehrer.de
` Guided tours for companies and groups
MedienHafen.de – Düsseldorf
Phone: +49 (0)211 58003417
rundgang@medienhafen.de
www. medienhafen.de
` Architecture and art tours
Kunst Service, phone: +49 (0)211 6799695
info@kunst-service.com
www. kunst-service.com
` Geschichts-Werkstatt Düsseldorf
“Zeitmaschine” e. V.
Phone: +49 (0)211 6504362
www.g eschichtswerkstatt-duesseldorf.de
Further information about guided tours:
` www.duesseldorf .de/medienhaf en/
fuehrungen/index.shtml
Miscellaneous:
` MedienHafen Düsseldorf e. V.
Verein zur Standor tförderung
www. medienhafen-dus. de
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0 Ernst-Gnoß-Straße
1 Stadttor 1
2 Stromstraße 20
3 Stromstraße 24
4–6 Neuer Zollhof 1–3
“Portobello”, 63 m high
The Düsseldorf City Gate
Rheinturm (Rhine Tower)
Westdeutscher Rundfunk Düsseldorf
“Der Neue Zollhof ”
Bayerische Hausbau GmbH
Owner: Bayerische Hausbau GmbH
Design: Döring Dahmen Joeressen
Architekten
Use: 137 apartments,
5,000 m² office space
Completion: 2003
MIPIM AWARD 1998 for best office
building in the world
Floor area: 30,000 m²
Developer: Engel Canessa
Owner: Field Point IV S.à.r.l.
Design: Overdiek Petzinka und Partner
Completion: 1998
234 m high, with the world’s largest decimal clock (Guinness Book of Records),
designed by Horst H. Baumann
Design: Prof. Harald Deilmann
Completion: 1982
Broadcasting centre
Investors:
Developer:
Floor area: approx. 10,000 m²
WDR Cologne, Düsseldorf Studio
parade architekten
Completion: 1991
Use:
Design:
KMR Kunst- und Medienzentrum Rheinhafen GmbH, Philipp
Holzmann BauProjekt AG, Cologne,
Thomas Rempen, Düsseldorf
Design: Frank O. Gehry, USA
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Note: Grey buildings or buildings with grey numbers are in the planning stage and are pending approval of the
relevant government bodies. If not stated otherwise, floor area is to be understood as gross floor area, above
ground. Architects not mentioned with a city name are based in Düsseldorf. n
I formation about current tenants
is available online at: www.duesseldorf.de/eng/medienhafen
Graphic art: Alexander Schmidt, version of September 2015
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4 Neuer Zollhof 3
Floor area: 5,400 m²
7 Kaistraße 20
White building
Completion:
Kai-Center
Owner: BSA + OFK Germany Real Estate
1998
Floor area: 13,100 m²
6 Neuer Zollhof 1
Completion:
Brick facade
1998
5 Neuer Zollhof 2
Middle building with reflective facade
Owner: Knapp Voith, private
Owner: Hoechst-Pensionskasse
Floor area: 9,900 m²
Completion:
1999
Investor and owner: Shiseido Deutsch-
land GmbH, Hansainvest, private
Floor area: 9,600 m²
Design: Döring Dahmen Joeressen
Architekten
Completion: 1996
8–10 Kaistraße 16, 16 a, 18
Owner: alstria office REIT-AG
9 Kaistraße 16 a
Office and studio building in a
converted and extended former
8 Kaistraße 18
Floor area: 3,600 m²
Design: Steven Holl, USA
Completion: 1997
warehouse
Floor area: 6,400 m²
Design:
ingenhoven architects
1997
Completion:
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43, 49 a
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10 Kaistraße 16
Floor area: 6,400 m²
Design: David Chipperfield, GB
Completion: 1997
12 Kaistraße 12–14 a
13 Kaistraße 10
14 Kaistraße 8 b
15 Kaistraße 8 a
Converted storage building
Conversion, KAI 10 – Raum für Kunst
Conversion
New development “Haus vor dem Wind”
Owner: City of Düsseldorf
Owner: private
Owner: private
Floor area: 3,215 m²
Design:
11 Hans-Albers-Plastik
By Jörg Immendorff
Architekten KLMT
1994
Completion:
Floor area: 1,440 m²
Design: Droste Droste & Urban
Architektengesellschaft
Completion: 1987, KAI 10: 2008
Completion:
1990
Investors: Axel Haase Verwaltungs GmbH,
Axel Haase Projektentwicklungs GmbH
Design: Prof. Zamp Kelp, Berlin
Completion: 2006
28 Zollhof 2, 4, 6, 8
34 Speditionstraße 5
“GrandBateau“
“Maki-Solitär”
CF Bauprojekt (Codic
Düsseldorf GmbH and Frankfurter
Vermögens-Holding)
Design: Claude Vasconi, France
Owner: InVision AG
Zollhof 2, 2 a
35 Speditionstraße 7
1st building section
“Alte Mälzerei”
17–19 Kaistraße 4, 4 a and 6
Owner: Beta Grundstücksentwicklung
GmbH & Co. KG
Design: RKW Rhode Kellermann
Wawrowsky
Completion: 1993–1995
welfare service organisation
Co-owner: Landesanstalt für
Medien (LfM)
Floor area: 5,000 m²
Completion: 1999
Former Dortmunder Union Kronen
brewery malthouse, listed building
(1897), renovated
Owner: Hartmut Ibing
Floor area: 7,700 m²
Design: Bob Gansfort
Completion: 2002
17 Kaistraße 6
2nd building section
Owner: NRW Chamber of Architects’
welfare service organisation
Floor area: 5,000 m²
Completion: 2001
16 Kaistraße 8
Developer: Calliston Gesellschaft
für Projektentwicklung mbH
Owner: CENTRUM Holding
Deutschland
Floor area: 1,040 m²
Design: HPP Hentrich-Petschnigg &
Partner
Completion: 2000
Investor:
Owner: NRW Chamber of Architects’
Floor area: 2,000 m²
Fumihiko Maki, Japan
Completion: 2001
Design:
Zollhof 4/Hammer Straße 13–15
New development
Floor area: 5,500 m²
18 Kaistraße 4
Warehouse built in the 1930s
Floor area: 4,500 m²
19 Kaistraße 4 a
Floor area: 1,270 m²
20 Kaistraße 1
Owner: City of Düsseldorf
Use:
reserve area
21 Kaistraße 3
Listed building (warehouse built
in 1899), restored
Owner: City of Düsseldorf
Floor area: 4,800 m²
Norbert Winkels
Completion: 1995
Zollhof 6–8/Hammer Straße 17
3rd building section
Owner: NRW Chamber of Architects’
welfare service organisation
Floor area: 9,500 m²
Completion: 2002
23 Kaistraße 7–9, Zollhof 11–15
Media centre
Developer and investor:
“Colorium”
18-storey tower, 62 m high, screenprinted coloured glass facade
Owner: Hartmut Ibing
Floor area: 7,600 m²
Design: William Alsop, GB
Use: Hotel INNSIDE by Meliá Düsseldorf Hafen, 134 designer rooms and
suites; European Media and Business
Academy (EMBA)
Completion: 2001
29 Hammer Straße 19/Zollhof 10
37–40 Speditionstraße 11–15
“H19“
“Dock 13”
Owner: Union Investment Real
Estate GmbH
Floor area: 13,000 m²
Design: pinkarchitektur
Completion: 2002
Investor:
Hochtief Projektentwicklung
Dr Alberto Priolo
Completion: 2001/2002
Design:
37 Speditionstraße 11
Demolition and r edevelopment as hotel
Design:
22 Kaistraße 5
Owner: DBV Deutsche
Beamtenversicherung
Developer: Calliston Gesellschaft
für Projektentwicklung mbH
Floor area: 8,800 m²
Design: HPP Hentrich-Petschnigg &
Partner
Completion: 1999
36 Speditionstraße 9
30 Zollhof 28/30, Hammer
Straße 29, Franziusstraße 1
UCI Multiplex Cinema
Project developer: Architekturbüro
Thomas Fründt, Dorsten; IPEM GmbH,
Cologne
Owner: Theseus Immobilien
Verwaltungs GmbH & Co. KG –
LBB Fonds Zwölf
Floor area: 15,000 m²
Design: Till Sattler, Cologne
Completion: 1998
31–32 Am Handelshafen 4,
Kaistraße 2
Owner: Hotel Net LLP
Use: Courtyard by Marriott
Düsseldorf-Hafen, 139 rooms
Floor area: 8.500 m²
Completion: 2001
38 Speditionstraße 13
Former silo used by the Lamers
company, listed building, completel y
refurbished, office building
Owner: AFIAA Dock 13-Speicher
GmbH
Floor area: 5,650 m²
39 Speditionstraße 13 a
Lindner Unternehmensgruppe
Owner: CCP II Düsseldorf
S.à.r.l. & Co. KG, Lux.
Floor area: 17,120 m²
Design: BM+P Beucker Maschlanka
und Partner
Completion: 1995
“PEC Port Event Center” and “DOCK –
Renovated former Lamers villa,
Düsseldorf Office Center Kaistraße”
office building
modernes Düsseldorf
Gesellschaft für Stadtentwicklung mbH
Owner: Volksfürsorge 4.
Kaistraße”
“Neuwerk”
24 Platz der Medien
Investor: City of Düsseldorf
Floor area: 2,205 m²
Design: Günther Uecker and
Thomas Beucker
Completion: 1996
High-rise block, 59 m, 16 floors
Owner: WEGA Immobilien GmbH
Floor area: 8,315 m² office space and
111 m² retail space
Design: Jo Coenen, Maastricht
Completion: 2002
New office building
Owner: Volksfürsorge 4.
Immobilien AG & Co. KG
Floor area: 6,700 m²
Investor:
31 Kaistraße 2
“DOCK – Düsseldorf Office Center
25 Kaistraße 11
32 Am Handelshafen 4
Conversion of a 1949 warehouse
“PEC Port Event Center”
Owner: Industrieterrains
Listed building, renovated,
PEC monument
Use: nightclub
Completion: 2002
Düsseldorf-Reisholz AG
Floor area: 3,360 m² offices,
222 m² studios
Design: Norbert Winkels
Completion: 1999
Suspended construction
“Wolkenbügel”
26 Kaistraße 13 a
Owner: Metroinvest Wolkenbügel S.à.r.l.
“Kai 13”
Floor area: 3,600 m²
Engel Canessa
Projektentwicklung
Owner: NRW Chamber of Architects’
welfare service organisation
Floor area: 4,800 m²
Design: Döring Dahmen Joeressen
Architekten
Completion: 2003
Design:
Developer:
Professor Wansleben, Cologne
Completion: 2002
33 Speditionstraße 1
“SIGN!”
20-storey office tower, 75 m high
Owner: FRANKONIA Eurobau AG
Architects’ House
Düsseldorf Hafen Office GmbH
Floor area: 14,600 m²
Design: Murphy/Jahn, Chicago/Berlin
Completion: 2010
Owner: North-Rhine Westphalian
Chamber of Architects
Floor area: 3,450 m²
Design: werk.um architekten, Darmstadt
Completion: 2003
34–36 Speditionstraße 5, 7, 9
Investor: Hartmut Ibing
Project planning: Drees & Sommer,
Cologne
27 Zollhof 1
Immobilien AG & Co. KG
Floor area: 1,100 m²
40 Speditionstraße 15
41 Speditionstraße 15 a
Floor area: 36,600 m²
52 Plange Mühle 1
Design:
Conversion of the listed Plange Mühle
sop architekten on behalf of JSK
Dipl. Ing. Architekten, Frankfurt
Completion: 2010
44 Plockstraße 30
Owners (land and leasehold):
LH Düsseldorf GbR, ingenhoven
architects, Overdiek GmbH
Floor area: 18,000 m²
Design: Ingenhoven Overdiek Architekten
Completion: 2003
channel QVC
Headquarters and studios
Developer and owner:
IDR Düsseldorf-Reisholz AG
Design 1st section: Norbert Winkels
Design extension: agiplan integrale bauplanung GmbH, Duisburg
Floor area: 10,770 m² plus two 800 m²
studios and one 180 m² studio, with a
6,500 m² headquarters built in the
second construction phase
Use: QVC Deutschland GmbH
Completion: 1st phase: 2001,
2nd phase: 2005
45 Holzstraße 2
53 Kesselstr aße
Note: The plans for Kesselstraße are
currently being revised.
54 Weizenmühlenstraße
Planned zone
Creation of planning security for the
businesses located there
55 Holzstraße 12
Planned project
Media-Tower
High-rise office building, 67 m, 18 storeys
Project development: Media-Tower GmbH
Project management: PLB ProvinzialLeben-Baubetreuungs-GmbH
Owner: Media-Tower GmbH
Floor area: 7,800 m² office space,
280 m² gastronomy
Design: Architekten Prof. Findeisen &
Wächter, Cologne
Completion: 2005
56 The Living Bridge
46 Holzstraße 4
“Königskinder” (planned)
Glass Killepitsc h Factory
Luxury tower apartment blocks each
60 m high, rooftop sculptures by
Markus Lüpertz, each 12 m high
Ground floor: restaurant/retail
Between the two buildings: a square
opening out on to the waterfront
Investor: FRANKONIA Eurobau AG
Design: pinkarchitektur
6-storey liqueur factory with visitor
centre
Project development: Busch Batiments
Consulting
Project management: PLB ProvinzialLeben-Baubetreuungs-GmbH
Owner: Busch Batiments Immobilien
GmbH
Design: Architekten Prof. Findeisen &
Wächter, Cologne
Completion: 2005
47 Holzstraße 6
“Capricor n House”
New 7-storey office building
Owner: capricorn DEVELOPMENT
Floor area: 25,800 m² rentable space
Design: Gatermann + Schossig
Architekten, Cologne
Completion: 2005
Pedestrian and cyclist bridge
150 m long, 11.60 m wide, glass bridge
building where the Lido restaurant is
located with two storeys and a patio
Design: sop architekten on behalf of JSK
Dipl. Ing. Architekten, Frankfurt
Use: Lido restaurant
Completion: 2005
57 Speditionstraße
58 Gladbacher Straße/
Hammer Straße/Gilbachstraße
“Rhine Residence in the Media Harbour”
13 residential buildings with 101 residential units, 2 stores, Europe’s biggest
solar-powered residential estate
Owner: Rheinwohnungsbau GmbH
Floor area: 1,400 m² in the office building
Design: HGMB Architekten
Completion: 2006/2008
59 Holzstraße 10
Jörg Fuchs car repair services
48 Franziusstraße
“FLOAT”
New 6–9-storey office building complex
Investor: IMMOFINANZ Group
Floor area: approx. 30,000 m²
Design: Renzo Piano Building
Workshop, Paris
Construction start: 2015
49 Speditionstraße
Former Roggendorf storage building,
completely renovated facade featuring
Flossis by the artist Rosalie, Stuttgart
Owner: City of Düsseldorf
Use: STARTPLATZ Düsseldorf,
start-up centre, services for business
start-ups under one roof
Floor area: 2,100 m²
Design: Norbert Winkels
Completion: 2001
Mixed residential and commercial property
49 a Speditionstraße 23
New development
7-storey office building, 26 m high
Deka Immobilien GmbH
Floor area: 5,970 m²
Design: sop architekten on behalf of JSK
Dipl. Ing. Architekten, Frankfurt
Completion: 2010
Investor:
42 Speditionstraße 17
50 Hammer Straße 25
New development
Radisson Blu Media Harbour Hotel
Investor: Josef Roggendorf
Lagerhaus GmbH
Owner: Bayerische Apothekerversorgung
Floor area: 9,278 m²
Design: Ingenhoven Overdiek Architekten
Completion: 2002
Owner: INFRA Hafen-Hotel
Düsseldorf GmbH & Co. KG
Grimbacher Nogales
Architekten
Completion: 2005
43 Tip of Speditionstr aße 19
Residential and/or office building
The left tower houses the 5-star HyattRegency-Hotel and the right tower
houses offices
Owner: Projektgesellschaft Hafenspitze
mbH & Co. KG (Hyatt Turm)/Deka
Immobilien GmbH
Surrounding buildings such as the old
metal workshop and silos were integrated.
New development for home shopping
“Roggendorf-House”
New-built 65 m high twin towers
mill building (1906)
Owner: Kfz-Meisterbetrieb Jörg Fuchs
Floor area: 560 m²
Design: Dr Schrammen Architekten
BDA, Mönchengladbach
Completion: 2007
60 Holzstraße 8
Lenz Rega Port Yacht Shop
Owner: Lenz Rega-Port
GmbH & Co. KG
Floor area: 510 m²
Design: Dr Schrammen Architekten
BDA, Mönchengladbach
Completion: 2007
61 Plange Mühle 4, 5
Concrete silo (1929, 1934)/wooden
silo (1906) belonging to the former
Plange Mühle mill (see 52), listed
buildings , office conversion planned
Floor area: 4,087 m²/5,170 m²
Design:
ingenhoven architects
planned
Construction start:
62 Marina Düsseldorf
Design:
63 Kesselstr aße 5
New headquarters of trivago
Design:
51 Hammer Straße 27
In the planning phase
sop architekten
Building contractor: IMMOFINANZ,
Vienna
gross floor space above ground,
approx. 30,000 m2 (1st building section)
Start of construction: spring 2016
Completion: mid 2018 (1st building
section)
Space:
Future plans
Kaistraße is at the heart of the
The diversity of architecture in the
Media Harbour is inspiring; her e are the
Gehry buildings and the glass city g ate.
pulsating, multifaceted Media
Harbour. Kesselstraße leads down
to the area where the typical harbour
industries are located and offers a
lot of scope for new usage concepts.
The west side of Speditionstraße
There are plans to create a vibrant urban infrastructure for mixed use on Speditionstraße, with
apartments combined with office and commercial
units adding new life and urban f lair. A spacious
plaza and a green promenade along the harbour
basin will provide new and attractive recreational
space once finished. The western side of Speditionstraße has potential for the development of 200–250
residential units and some 600 additional workplaces. When the land use plan has been approved
for this area the development plan will quickly be
made legally effective.
Kesselstraße/ Weizenmühlenstraße
The Kesselstraße peninsula is a transition zone
between Speditionstraße, which will have both resi-
Futuristic: old has been tur ned into new, and listed b uildings stand c heek by jowl with modern architecture.
Düsseldorf’s Media Harbour 11
The harbour atmosphere makes it a magnet to visitors who come there to stroll around, s it and relax, s ee and be seen.
dential and commercial tenants in future, and the
typical harbour businesses on Weizenmühlenstraße
that is suitable for a wide range of uses. Potential
uses include commerce as well as science, culture
and sport facilities. Specific objectives are currently
being defined and the future urban design for this
zone is in the planning phase.
The Weizenmühlenstraße peninsular is where the
mills are located. An urban master development
plan is being drawn up to provide the companies
there with planning security.
The Fortuna co-generation plant that is being built
on the Lausward land spit will be one of the most
efficient gas power stations in the world. By the
end of 2015/2016 it will be providing Düsseldorf
with green electricity and district heat, making an
important contribution to the region’s security of
supply and to the achievement of climate protection
objectives. The Aachen-based firm of architects,
kadawittfeldarchitektur, created the very special
design for the plant.
Plange Mühle mill, a listed building at the very
end of Weizenmühlenstraße, today houses several
well-known companies, quite a few of them in the
fashion business. The mill silos, which are also
listed buildings, will be converted into office buildings in the next few years by ingenhoven architects.
Lausward/Hamburger Straße
This zone will be designated as a “special harbour
zone” and Lausward power station will be designated as a “special power station zone”. The urban
planners’ objective in the commercial harbour zone
is to guarantee the harbour’s future sustainability
by ensuring that the companies located there have
both planning and investment safeguards. At the
same time, the planning objectives for the Media
Harbour will ref lect the surrounding residential
development.
Cargo handling in the commercial harbour against a moder n backdrop.
The most efficient natural gas power plant in the world (centr e) is currently being built on Lausward. Spectacular ne w buildings are being
planned for Franziusstr aße with FLOAT (right) and the tr ansformation of the silos of the Plange Mill into moder n offices (left).
Restaurants, hotels and entertainment
The Media Harbour has all kinds of bistros, beer gardens, bars, nightclubs and gourmet restaurants catering to every preference.
Courtyard by Marriott
Düsseldorf Hafen
in the Radisson Blu Hotel
46 Killepitsch Bar
Apollo Restaurant, Apollo-Platz 1
* La Donna Cannone Trattoria
Appetit Happen, Hafenkiosk,
& wine bar, Hammer Str. 28
Gladbacher Str. 93
* Le Bar de Bistro, Wupperstr. 2
Berens am Kai
56 Lido Brasserie on The Living Bridge
Bistro Blue Screen
1 Limoncello café, restaurant and
Bob & Mary best burger and salad,
wine bar
Hammer Str. 26
6 Meerbar
Bocconcino Ristaurante
* Mischpult salad bar by Woyton,
Bodega 17
Erftstraße 3
Bogart’s Bar Lounge
30 Mojito’s Fine Cocktail-Bar
Böser Chinese
29 Mongo’s Restaurant
Breuer’s Restaurant, Hammer Str. 10 29 Oduggi Sushi-Bar
Café D
29 Oehme bakery
Mauermann’s Curry, Hammer Str. 2
27 Patrick’s Seafood No. 1
DOX Bar in the Hyatt
40 Perla Porto Ristorante
Eigelstein, pub
Icecream and café Zollhof,
Hammer Str. 6
Ess-Klasse Hüber, catering, lunches,
takeaways, Erftstr. 12
Pub Hafenquelle,
Gladbacher Str. 74
Gehry’s, Neuer Zollhof 1–3
Günnewig Rheinturm
Restaurant Top 180
Hans im Glück, burgergrill,
Bar, Hammer Str. 38
Julian’s Bar & Restaurant in
Restaurants & bars
43 Pebble’s Champagner-Lounge
50 Amano Verde Veggy Good
in the Hyatt
* Pizzeria am MedienHafen,
Wupperstr. 14
* Porters Premium Steakhouse & Bar,
Stromstr. 47
* Prickynoo, Thai Restaurant,
Gladbacher Str. 51
* Reusch Restaurant, Erftstr. 20
23 Riva Restaurant
* Robert’s Bistro, Wupperstr. 2
* Salumeria Mercatino, Erftstr. 3
* Sampi, Brückenstr. 12
* Shabby Chic Restaurant, Wupperstr. 14
* Bakery, Gladbacher Str. 52
28 Starbucks Coffee
* Sushi Maruyasu,
Hammer Str. 10
38 The View Skylounge
& Bar
*
*
10
30
*
18
29
30
23
*
43
*
43
28
*
*
*
4
2
*
37
The numbers refer to the building numbers. Establishments
designated with * are located on side streets that are shown on
the map overleaf. You can search for individual bars and restaurants according to type at www.duesseldorf.de/medienhaf en.
Links to their websites are also provided.
Thouli’s Green Garden Restaurant,
Auf der Lausward 51
* Trattoria Zollhof, Hammer Str. 6
28 Vindega, wine bar, Zollhof 8
* Woyton café and business catering,
Erftplatz
*
Hotels
37 Courtyard by Marriott
Düsseldorf Hafen
36 Hotel INNSIDE by Meliá
43 Hyatt Regency
50 Radisson Blu Media Harbour
Entertainment/recreation
Apollo Varieté and restaurant,
Apollo-Platz 1
* Germany’s first public golf course,
Golf-Sport-Verein Düsseldorf e. V.,
Auf der Lausward 51
13 “KAI 10” Raum für Kunst
(Arthena Foundation – art gallery)
23 Rudas Studios, club
30 UCI Kinowelt
32 Discotheque/club
*
Directions for car and public transport users
Key
Bus stops
Tram stops
S-Bahn rail stops
S-Bahn railway lines
Tramlines
(704, 708, 709, 719)
Parking
P1: Apollo Theatre car park
Entrance on Neusser Straße/Rheinknie brücke, 125 spaces, open 24 h
P2: Rheinturm car park
Entrance on Stromstr aße,
150 spaces, open 24 h
P3: Neuer Zollhof/
Gehry buildings car park
Entrance on Hammer Straße,
154 spaces, open 7 a.m.–1 a.m.
P4: Medienzentrum car park
Entrance on Zollhof, 80 spaces, open 24 h
P5: Cinema car park
Entrance on Zollhof, 457 spaces,
Open Mon.–Fri. 6 a.m.–4.30 a.m.;
Sat./Sun. 9 a.m.–4.30 p.m.
P6: Speditionstr aße car park
Entrance on Speditionstr aße,
350 spaces, open 24 h
This brochure was created with the kind support of:
Publisher
Photos
City of Düsseldorf
The Mayor
Office of Economic
Development, Burgplatz 1
40213 Düsseldorf, Germany
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Contact for enquires about plots of land
Office of Economic Development
Burgplatz 1, 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany
Markus Dörsing, phone: +49 (0)211 8993880
markus.doersing@duesseldorf .de
Harbour Coordinator
Hans-Dieter Jansen,
phone: +49 (0)211 8922580
hansdieter.jansen@duesseldorf .de
Planning and Building Department
The Media Harbour on the Internet
www.duesseldorf .de/medienhaf en