Vision Pier One
Creating Connections
With Pier One, a spectacular new building is making its mark in Düsseldorf’s harbour. The building hovers above the water on 160 piles. Planned according to the highest environmental standards, it offers space for high-quality offices, showrooms, cafés, and restaurants.
An exceptional location with short distances – four new, filigree bridges connect Pier One with Speditionsstrasse, Kesselstrasse, and Weizenmühlenstrasse, creating a direct link to its distinguished neighbours at the Media Harbour. This also creates a new infrastructure at Düsseldorf’s harbour, which removes outmoded divisions between work and leisure, retail and industry.
Based on an idea by Christoph Ingenhoven, the project is being developed by harbour properties. Start of construction: 2022; completion: 2025.
Pier One, view from the west. Short distances and new connections at the Düsseldorf harbour. © ingenhoven associates / Alexander Schmitz
Christoph Ingenhoven © ingenhoven associates / Max Brunnert
With Pier One, we are creating a lively new location – on the water, for Düsseldorf. Connecting the different harbour zones removes outmoded boundaries between work, leisure, retail, and industry.
Christoph Ingenhoven
Pier One, view from the northwest. Plange Mühle main building with its historic clock tower, Holzsilo, and Betonsilo (both historic silos). © ingenhoven associates
View of the Pier One west wing with the Hyatt Hotel, Media Harbour, and Düsseldorf TV tower in the background. © ingenhoven associates
Future site of Pier One between Plange Mühle and the Hyatt Hotel, with a view of downtown Düsseldorf (situation in 2019, before renovation Betonsilo). © ingenhoven associates / HG Esch
Places for People
The architecture is based on the lightness of typical pier buildings. Two five-story building sections – the East Wing and West Wing – each enjoy an additional stacked floor plus a generous roof terrace. The two wings are connected by an enclosed winter garden that is flooded with natural light.
The generous gross floor area of 21,500 m2 provides space for highly flexible offices and showrooms. The ground floor invites visitors to enjoy a variety of cafés, restaurants, and extraordinary views.
It extends into two spacious public plazas – in the northeast with a view to the city, and in the southwest facing the Kesselpark. Together with the four bridges, this forms a new public space on the water. A new location for Düsseldorf.
View from the café on Pier One’s northeast plaza across the harbour to downtown Düsseldorf. © ingenhoven associates
supergreen
Pier One is certified according to the highest green building standards: LEED Platinum, DGNB Platinum, and WiredScore Gold. It is designed according to cradle-to-cradle principles. This means it meets the highest ESG criteria, which are driving the sustainable transformation of construction via the EU taxonomy.
We are guided by our own supergreen® concept. Our buildings are climate-positive, meaning we consider their entire life cycle during the planning process. Our principle of «replacement» means we give back the biocapacity we take away from the earth through targeted building concepts. At Pier One, which is built on a pile foundation in the water, we developed a unique site-specific response to support aquatic wildlife and biodiversity. We build in an «extracurricular» way – meaning we bring added value to the area by creating new public spaces. We build inclusively. We are convinced that resilient buildings can help mitigate the effects of global warming that are already being felt today.
Promote carbon-free mobility
Minimised heating and cooling loads
Photovoltaics & district heating
Intelligent building management system
Cradle-to-cradle design
High-efficiency ventilation systems, hybrid ventilation options
Minimal CO₂ footprint
Maximum use of low-hazard materials
Recycling & waste management
Sustainable water management
New public spaces
Inclusion & maximum accessibility
Working on the water
Promote carbon-free mobility
Minimised heating and cooling loads
Photovoltaics & district heating
Intelligent building management system
Cradle-to-cradle design
High-efficiency ventilation systems, hybrid ventilation options
Minimal CO₂ footprint
Maximum use of low-hazard materials
Recycling & waste management
Sustainable water management
New public spaces
Inclusion & maximum accessibility
Working on the water
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