Wissenschaftszentrum--Gemeinsame Dienste, Science center in Bad Godesberg, Germany.
The Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn is a reinforced-concrete building of up to seven storeys, designed from 1973 by Erich Schneider-Wessling and Ernst van Dorp and opened in 1976 on the Ahrstraße in Plittersdorf. A three-storey extension added in 1995 to the north side connects it to the German Academic Exchange Service building on the Kennedyallee; the same year the Deutsches Museum Bonn was installed in its southern section.
Architects Ernst van Dorp and Erich Schneider-Wessling designed this building after 1945 as part of Bonn's scientific infrastructure development. The structure reflects post-war reconstruction and modernization efforts in the region.
The centre hosts changing exhibitions on scientific topics, drawing on state museums and the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Since 1996 the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China (Taiwan) has kept a representative office here, and in the 1990s the DFG ran its own computing centre on the north-western ground floor.
The Wissenschaftszentrum stands on Ahrstraße in Plittersdorf, north of Bad Godesberg's centre, with the DFG headquarters directly to its west and the Kennedyallee entrance to the north. The 1995 three-storey extension links the building to the DAAD offices on Kennedyallee. The Deutsches Museum Bonn occupies the southern part of the complex.
The building's south section has housed the Deutsches Museum Bonn since 1995, when the center was extended northward by a three-storey structure linking it to the DAAD headquarters on the Kennedyallee. The conversion and extension, planned by Sepp Rössle and Wilfried Pilhatsch, was funded with 24 million euros from the Bonn region compensation agreement.
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