Hansa Hochhaus
Cologne, Germany

HEIGHT: 65m
FLOORS: 18 floors
COMPLETION: 1925
ARCHITECT: Jacob Koerfer


Sidenote: Inside this building you'll find a Saturn electronics store, with the biggest CD/DVD-sortiment in Germany afaik. Also you can find a pasternoster lift in here which is still in use.

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8/10 Actually a good building IMO, and old. Btw - it's 18 floors right? ;)

Dont really like the color, to brown for me. But its cool that its a brick building. :) 6.5/10

It looks alright,not too stunning though ;) 7.0/10

I don't like it, 5/10

6.5/10

Doesn't look too old.

4 because the clor is horrible!

looks monotonous. sorry...

5/10

To be honest, I would love to have such a building like this in my city......looks like there are lots of history in it along with great architecture...:)

6.5/10


sorry, nothing special

Nothing special ... 6/10

not bad, but not the best. 6/10

7/10 for something built in 1925!

5.5

I don't care about it's age, or the sentimental value attached to it, I think it's just a plain ordinary looking brown building!

LOL. people who say a thing like that have no idea about architecture. it is bland by today's standards but it was revolutionary in 1920's europe. by today's standards the lever house in new york would be just a boring glass box but when it was built it was the beginning of a new era in architecture nad that's why it is still loved today....

really some people are just too ignorant...

Okay then, tell me more about this building.

What's the history behind it? What was so 'revolutionary' about it?

nothing special!

4/10

LOL. people who say a thing like that have no idea about architecture. it is bland by today's standards but it was revolutionary in 1920's europe. by today's standards the lever house in new york would be just a boring glass box but when it was built it was the beginning of a new era in architecture nad that's why it is still loved today....

really some people are just too ignorant...
Excuse me, nothing against that building,but THIS was built at the same time in Sao Paulo: Edifício Martinelli, built 1928, 130 m
http://www.arrakeen.ch/saopaulo/007%20%20Edificio%20Martinelli.JPG
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http://www.fotosedm.hpg.ig.com.br/CV4/117_1780.JPG
http://www.fotosedm.hpg.ig.com.br/CV4/117_1778.JPG :cheers: :)

So you expect how many points vor Hansaturm? Come on, Cologne has many better buildings than that one! :cheers:

4/10

It looks an industrial style building, isn't it? I like it very much. I'm sure that it's an architecture treasure in Cologne.

8/10 for this very interesting and nice building.

Ugly 5.5/10

not too bad, 6/10

Yuk. There is NOTHING revolutionary about that other than its astounding resemblance to a 1920s edge-of-city light-industrial building... just extruded.

below 3

Not bad for its age, but rather boring... 6/10

Simple, sort of boring.... Wonder what the inside look like.... Lobby etc?
1925, must have a great history....
6.5/10

4.5/10 the coulor is not so good!!!! it is horrible

3/10

NO, 5/10

6.5/10 for its age it´s ok!

5.5/10. It looks like a prison :(

A bit grim 5/10

5.5/10

terrible!! 3/10

7/10

6.5/10 unimpressive.

5/10

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6/10

2/10

6,5/10

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7/10

5/10

7/10

6/10

i don't like this tower

5.0

4/10

6/10

4/10

8/10

5/10

6/10

3.5

6/10

not bad 8/10

7/10

just edited the entry posting :)
and i rate it with 7 points. would like it more if the top was nicer.

6/10

3.5/10

3,5

4/10

6/10 + 1 (age) - 7/10

7. Regards.

6/10

7/10

5,5/10

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7/10

5/10