Bayer-Hochhaus

The Bayer tower was a 122 meters high, former administration building of Bayer AG in Leverkusen. It was designed by the architects Hentrich, Petschnigg & Partners and built from 1960 to 1963. After the failed attempt to convert the house into a large media façade, was on 20 January 2011 that it is to be demolished. The demolition was carried out in 2012.

History

65 meters long and 19 meters wide, Bayer tower has 29 floors with a usable floor area of ​​26,000 m². It is on the 35th place of the tallest buildings in Germany. This building was used from 1963 to 2002 as Bayer Group headquarters. This then moved to a new building, which is located right next to the tower. By the end of 2006, the high-rise building was headquarters of the Bayer Group company Bayer MaterialScience ( BMS ), and also hosted individual departments Lanxess AG. These were then divided into other buildings. Since then, the building was completely empty.

The Bayer tower was for advertising purposes in March 1999 and dressed on the occasion of the Bayer anniversary for several weeks with a slide in an aspirin box.

Demolition and reconstruction plans for media sculpture

Originally, the Bayer tower to be demolished in 2001. After the demolition date delayed again and again, was waived in May 2007 on the demolition.

Bayer AG is now planned the conversion of the former corporate headquarters in a highly visible media of sculpture, which is used as a communication tool. To this end, the building was gutted and renovated the facade. There 5.6 million LED lights were attached to the outer wall, the moving images can represent in large size. Inside the building, a so-called "green core" of semi-transparent Makrolon was built.

Upon completion, which was initially scheduled for autumn 2009, the Bayer tower in Leverkusen should be among the largest media facades in the world. Due to technical problems the project, the demolition was abandoned in January 2011 and again announced.

The demolition was carried out in 2012, the resulting open space was an extension of the adjacent Japanese garden planted (March 2013).