Schocken Department Store Stuttgart

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Schocken Department Store Stuttgart was a pioneering modernist department store in Stuttgart, Germany, renowned for its expressive, streamlined design by architect Erich Mendelsohn.

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Schocken Department Store Stuttgart canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf commercial building
department store building
modernist architecture work
architect Erich Mendelsohn
architecturalConcept emphasis on transparency and display
expression of movement through form
integration of structure and façade expression
architecturalMovement Nieuwe Bouwen
surface form: Neues Bauen
client Schocken department store network
surface form: Schocken Department Stores
constructionStartDate 1926
country Germany
designedInStyle Expressionist architecture
Modernism
Streamline Moderne
era interwar period
hasArchitecturalFeature banded façade
cantilevered upper stories
continuous horizontal glazing
corner entrance
curved corner façade
dynamic, streamlined massing
emphasized horizontal lines
flat roof
horizontal strip windows
large display windows at street level
projecting cornices
ribbon windows
setback upper floors
hasContext urban commercial center of Stuttgart
hasFloorCount multiple stories
hasInfluenced later department store architecture in Germany
locatedIn Baden-Württemberg
Stuttgart
locatedInTimeZone Central European Time
materialUsed glass
reinforced concrete
steel
namedAfter Schocken Books
surface form: Schocken
openingDate 1928
owner Schocken family
partOf Schocken department store network
surface form: Schocken department store chain
significance important example of interwar European retail architecture
key work in Erich Mendelsohn’s commercial architecture
pioneering example of modernist department store design in Germany
streetAddress Königstraße (Stuttgart)
surface form: Königstraße, Stuttgart
usedFor department store
retail

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Erich Mendelsohn notableWork Schocken Department Store Stuttgart
Mendelsohn notableWork Schocken Department Store Stuttgart
subject surface form: Erich Mendelsohn
Schocken Department Store Nuremberg relatedWork Schocken Department Store Stuttgart