Roof Terrace with Rhine View– Kap am Südkai

Roof Terrace with Rhine View– Kap am Südkai

With its red tower it nearly looks like a light-tower – matching the new Rheinauhafen.

The eleven floors belong to the building Kap am Südkai, for which the architectural bureau KSP Engel und Zimmermann from Frankfurt was responsible for from design documentation and investment planning down to using it for their own purposes.

With its red tower it nearly looks like a light-tower – matching the new Rheinauhafen. The eleven floors belong to the building Kap am Südkai, for which the architectural bureau KSP Engel und Zimmermann from Frankfurt was responsible for from design documentation and investment planning down to using it for their own purposes. From the outside it is pretty plainly structured, since it falls neatly in line with the neighboring “Siebengebirge“.

However, taking a closer look pays off, since the peculiarities can be spotted in the details: Already when entering the building it becomes clear that the architects had many ideas concerning details.On nearly 12,000 square meters the building cores of contrasting color meet on the roof area to form the building’s spine.

Including a generous roof terrace granting a wide view. However, this is not accessible to anybody like the first floor, which is open to interested visitors and can also be used as a showroom for exhibitors. If you wish to get from the first floor to the roof terrace you will have to pass the openly arranged offices of the upper floors.

Arranged around the building’s colored cores one can already guess the view across the river Rhine provided by their glass fronts, a view one can enjoy unhindered from the roof terrace. “Room for working people, their guests and the public“ the Rheinauhafen intended to create with the Kap am Südkai according to its marketing slogan. And the concept seems to work.

The in-house “KAP Forum“ offers unusual meals such as “Salade Niçoise“ or potatoe almond balls in a mediterranean setting to employees and guests alike. And some think while getting treated by the creations of chef Steffen Kimmig, that there might be even more details hidden inside the Kap am Südkai.The extra weight gained there or inside the nearby chocolate museum can then be lost again while taking a walk along the Rhine shores. 

Further projects from Cologne…

Project details

Architect:

KSP Engel und Zimmermann

Status:

Construction start: 7/2003
Completion: 10/2004

Size:

GFA: 1,8053 sqm
GV: 6,3073 m²
MUA: 8,900 sqm

Constructor:

Objektgesellschaft Kap am Südkai mbH

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admin 10. April 2011 - 1:27

Breathtaking skycrapers...

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admin 10. April 2011 - 1:27

NEW ERA OF CONCEPTION.......

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admin 10. April 2011 - 1:27

new concepts turns the methods of creations.......

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admin 10. April 2011 - 1:27

WOUUUUU! new concepts and new landscape

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admin 27. April 2011 - 11:50

The four sides do not go out of style.

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