SOS! If the city of Mannheim has its way, the Collini-Center will very soon no longer exist. The ele

SOS! If the city of Mannheim has its way, the Collini-Center will very soon no longer exist. The eleven-story office tower and the shopping passage located on the first floor are in need of renovation and are currently vacant. The buildings are to be demolished and replaced by a new ensemble, designed by the Frankfurt-based architecture firm schneider+schumacher. Only the 95-meter-high residential tower would remain (the whole building is held by private owners). But resistance is stirring: the Collini Rebels – committed residents of the Center – are fighting for the preservation and careful renovation of the buildings, as they are important architectural testimonies from the 1970s. And from today’s point of view, maybe even more important: The preservation of the large-scale structures can save a great deal of energy and resources. A pity that the city of Mannheim publicly advocates for sustainability and at the same time makes decisions like the useless demolition of beautiful Collini-Center!

Please help saving the Collini-Center and sign the petition for its preservation (https://chng.it/DK5Sz6bWzM). The demolition is already planned this month!

Also, just yesterday this exciting text about the Collini-Center was published by Alexandra Vinzenz and Oliver Sukrow: https://www.moderne-regional.de

http://wirimcollini.de/

Karl Schmucker: Collini Center, Mannheim, Germany, 1971–1975

https://www.sosbrutalism.org/cms/17515033

Photo: Hubert Berberich 2016 (CC-BY-SA-3.0)