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Entwurf • Design hdg / raumspielkunst, Bad Kreuznach
Bauherr • Client Sander/Bauer Wokküchen, Stuttgart
Standort • Location Eberhardtstraße 35-37, Stuttgart
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Nutzfläche • Floor space 134 m Bar, 198 m Club
Fotos • Photos Antje Quiram, Stuttgart
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More infos on page 185

Foto: © Ninette Sander BAR & CLUB WHITE NOISE

IN STUTTGART

The nightlife in Stuttgart is generally not considered to be
particularly adventurous. With the White Noise, however,
a kind of nightlife architecture has recently been able to
establish itself in the staid Swabian metropolis which
almost has a touch of Berlin. The venue includes a com-
municative bar designed like a stepped stand as well as a
dance temple hard as concrete for electronic music.
Aufgang
Stadt
O ne name, two locations: a bar on the left, a club on the right,
between them the access to the Stuttgart Rathaus underground
station! And the surroundings? More of a non-space, a lowered B-level
in the heart of the city, emerging at the beginning of the 1980s as part
of the new municipal administrative complex – ambitiously thought-out
Restaurant
Breitengrad 17 with twisting stairways, greened walls and a tree in the middle to soften
Aufgang the desolation of the façades around it. It worked: This was formerly the
Club
Stadt
White Noise location of the Litfass, an institution of the Stuttgart nightlife. When it
closed at the end of the 1990s, however, the area went steadily down-
hill. The neighbourhood stores didn’t seem to be profitable anymore,
the public space visibly deteriorated into a public lavatory. For many
years, the acrid smell of urine was in the air. Yet ever since a younger
generation discovered the large forms of architectural late modernism
as hip lifestyle stages, something is happening again on the lowland
Bar plain of Stuttgart. The initial spark came in 2015 with the Breitengrad 17,
White Noise
a cool Vietnamese restaurant with ambitious cuisine and contemporary
design (see AIT 6/2015). The White Noise followed – first the bar, then
the club. Both rooms were designed by the hdg Architekten / raum-
spielkunst joint office. In the bar, seeing and being seen is in the focus.
The architects Fabrice Henninger and Florian Lachenmann accordingly
designed an ascending seating landscape opposite the large glass front
which opens the White Noise towards the square. The bar in front of it
consists of open shelves, the counter of three thin steel legs and a nar-
row top. The view through the glass wall is thus preserved. Initially, film
Zugang
U-Bahn screenings had also been planned. Meanwhile, however, the concept
Grundriss • Floor plan was given up and the elements in the room were rearranged. The adja-
cent club, on the other hand, is as closed as possible. Two elements
characterize the design: a high, no-frills bar counter on the one side, a
breakwater for the waves of visitors; opposite it is the free-standing DJ
desk of concrete. Between them extends the dance-floor “basin”, later-
ally bordered by two concrete seating steps. Not for a long time has
Schnitt Club • Section Club Schnitt Bar • Section Bar Stuttgart been as much Berlin as it is here!

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