Fünf Höfe

The Shopping mall Fünf Höfe (English: Five Courtyards) in the center of Munich (in the area of Salvator-, Theatiner-, Kardinal-Faulhaber-Straße) was created from 1998 to 2003 after the coring of a HypoVereinsbank building complex.

They also include the Hypo-Kunsthalle (approximately 3,200 m2 of floor space), which displays temporary exhibitions on changing themes, artists and epochs.

The plan for the redesign of the whole block was the first international competition success of Basel architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron in 1994.

The client was the Fünf Höfe GmbH & Co KG represented through HVB Immobilien AG (a subsidiary of the then HypoVereinsbank) In the long-term preservation of the façades and parts of the old building, Herzog & de Meuron radically altered the old town block, which had been closed down until then, and made it into an ensemble of courtyards and passages with different views and insights, in which each courtyard should have its own character.

In the second phase, which was inaugurated on 19 March 2003,[2] the Munich architecture firm Hilmer & Sattler und Albrecht designed the façade to Salvatorstrasse.