The Neue Vahr area of Bremen was one of the largest housing developments to be built at one time in Europe in the 1960s. The 22-story high-rise apartment house forms the accent in the center of the Neue Vahr area of the city— between a shopping area and an artificial lake with landscaped grounds.

— Deborah Fritz from Karl Fleig. Alvar Aalto. Scarsdale: Wittenborn & Company. p258.

"The tower is a 'through house' with one-room and (at the most) two-room apartments for people who will live there for only a relatively short period of time (childless couples and single persons)."

— Karl Fleig. Alvar Aalto. Scarsdale: Wittenborn & Company. p258.

"The fan-like plan was conceived so that the very small one-room apartments would benefit from a broader outlook through the larger windows which this arrangement makes possible."

— Karl Fleig. Alvar Aalto. New York: Praeger Publishers. p195.

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Designed 1958, built 1959 to 1962.The twenty-two story apartment block was designed in 1958 and built 1959 to 1962.