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Leica Camera Wetzlar

Prize(s) Honorable Mentions

Lighting Design/Product Company Lichtvision Design GmbH

Lead Designers Karsten Ehling & Isabel Sternkopf

Completion Date 2014

Project Location Germany

Entry Description

The new corporate headquarters of Leica is situated close
to the city center of Wetzlar, a small town in the middle of
Germany. It is arranged together with two existing buildings
and a freestanding coffeehouse along a representative central
plaza. Besides the headquarters the building comprises an
art gallery, a museum, a Leica flagshipstore, a restaurant
and open production areas. All applications are connected at ground floor which can be experienced as a circumferential
fully glazed faÃ§ade. The lighting concept at the galleries
enables high flexibility in terms of different applications.
During darkness the faÃ§ade along the ground floor appears as
a shining ribbon, which emphasizes together with the lit plaza,
the illuminated coffeehouse and lit up facade of the existing
buildings the uniqueness and individuality of the place.