Chemnitz, 2021
Photo © Michael Moser

The Johannis-Quartier was built on a 5,700 sqm site at Johannisplatz in Chemnitz city centre. It consists of an office and commercial building including an underground car park and a hotel building with 172 rooms. The design by TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten was the winner of a Europe-wide investor tender.

Photo © Michael Moser

The new hotel building with its seven above-ground storeys and 20% barrier-free rooms was completed in just 18 months. It adjoins the Schocken department stores' built by Erich Mendelsohn at the end of the 1920s, which has been used as the Saxon Museum of Archaeology since 2014.

Photo © Michael Moser

The façade of the building was clad in natural stone on the ground floor and fitted with a thermal insulation composite system on the upper floors. Cornices on each storey and recessed reveals around the windows provide structure, calm and plasticity. There are 40 car parking spaces in the garage in the basement.

Photo © Michael Moser