»Dreischeibenhaus« - Verwaltungsgebäude der Phoenix-Rheinrohr AG (Thyssen)

“the Thys­sen­haus were zu­ge­dacht ob­li­ga­ti­ons con­cerning town con­struc­tion. The north south po­si­tion of its disks drew the di­rec­tion course of im­portant after road connections… and cla­ri­fied it in the third di­men­sion, by at the same time de­li­ver­ing the POINT de vue for a mul­ti­pli­city of perspectives… The house rests, from the core and in­ter­nal wall screens apart, on steel tubes, which stand be­hind a cur­tain wall facade… Whe­ther, not­hing ap­pears re­stau­rants, halls, en­gine rooms or nor­mal of­fices of it on the fine-linked har­mo­ni­zed fronts. The house works ea­sily, trans­pa­rency, weightless… For the weight­less­ness of the large mass and the self-assertion, with which the house loo­ked for and found its place in the town­scape, only the few knew to offer its suc­ces­sor equi­va­l­ents.”