Kranhaus
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300px|thumb|upright=1.8|Kranhäuser viewed from the Rhine: Kranhaus Süd ("south"), Kranhaus Eins ("one") and Kranhaus Nord ("north") 300px|thumb|upright=1.5|The buildings at night
A Kranhaus ("crane house") is one of three 17-story buildings, collectively , in the Rheinauhafen of Cologne, Germany. Their shape, an upside-down "L", is reminiscent of the harbor cranes that were used to load cargo from and onto ships, two of which were left standing as monuments when the harbor was redesigned as a residential and commercial quarter in the early 2000s. Each building is about high, long, and wide. They were designed by Aachen architect Alfons Linster and Hamburg-based Hadi Teherani of BRT Architekten. Construction began on 16 October 2006, and the first building was completed in 2008.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kranhaus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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