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Heidelberger Beton/Dressler Bau

Precision and elegance

Figure: HeidelbergCement/Fuchs

The new production and administration building accommodating the world of Leica will provide visitors and photo enthusiasts from all over the world insights in the past, the present and the future of photography

Figure: HeidelbergCement/Fuchs

Figure: HeidelbergCement/Fuchs

The precast concrete elements of the curtain-type fair-faced concrete façade snuggle against the curved building structure

Figure: HeidelbergCement/Fuchs

Figure: HeidelbergCement/Fuchs

Rooms like objective lenses depend on an optimum light

Figure: HeidelbergCement/Fuchs

One hundred years after manufacturing the Ur-Leica (first original Leica) in the German city of Wetzlar, the company now returns to its original location. In the newly designed Leitz-Park, the three-piece building complex of the Frankfurt-based architects Gruber + Kleine-Kraneburg complements two already existing fair-faced concrete buildings. From this year on, the new production and administration building of Leica Camera AG provides visitors and photo enthusiasts from all over the world insights in the past, the present and the future of photography.

In the second construction stage, the...

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