It was part of the annual exhibition of Deutscher Arbeit Dresden – Die Technische Stadt (German Labor Dresden - The Technical City) in 1928 and had a diameter of 24 meters. The spherical body was mounted on a ball neck of 11.5 meters in diameter and 4 meters high. The total height of the building was 26.5 feet, at a constructed area of 110 square meters of enclosed space measured 7600 cubic meters.
There were six levels and an elevator. The building could be through a circular, atrium-like opening up or look down. Only the top floor of the restaurant had a closed floor area. The windows of the restaurant allowed a good view over the nearby exhibition area.
The supporting structure of the building had been built in steel frame construction. The metal outer skin consisted of sheet aluminum. The construction work took Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG (Branch Gustavsburg at Mainz).
From 1928 it served in several exhibitions at the Municipal Exhibition Hall as a presentation space for numerous industrial companies, mostly in the field of electrical engineering and energy. The last verifiable involvement in an exhibition concept was within the realm Garden Festival of 1936. Terms of its architectural effect, it was located at a central location. The ball house stood between the so-called fountain and tower-yard, two self-contained Hallenkompexe at the exhibition site, and across from the concert venue, with its large restaurant area. In this way, it was located at the intersection of two main axes of the building and was singled out by a building within sight of many relationships.
The building was demolished in 1938, because no buyer or operator was found. Previously it had been attacked by the Nazi press as "degenerate art". According to others the ball home was destroyed in 1938 as a supposedly "un-German."
Today, there is the station of the park railway and opposite the round tower of the Transparent Factory, where Volkswagen AG outsourced their manufacture VW Phaeton vehicles. In the foyer of the Transparent Factory, a spherical movie theater is reminiscent of the Kugelhaus.
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