Rheinhallen (RTL Studios), Cologne, Germany, 2011 It’s a building of superlatives: the biggest building site in Germany while under construction, one of the largest office complexes all over Europe and the biggest one in Germany, measured by its gross floor area of 160,000 square meters. And Europe’s biggest private TV station has moved in, the RTL media group, consisting of the channels RTL, RTL2, Super RTL, VOX and NTV. 2,000 employees of RTL media group – finally united at one single location – took over two thirds of the huge building, the last third became the administrative center of HDI Gerling Assurance Company. Construction and architecture had to fulfill a challenging task. Originally the “Rheinhallen“ were Cologne’s fair grounds, erected during the twenties of the last century o

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