Königsallee
- Corneliusplatz, Tritonenbrunnen, Kö-Bogen, Schadowarkaden, Sevens, Kö-Galerie, Galeria Kaufhof an der Kö, Steigenberger Parkhotel, Gucci, Cartier, Emporio Armani, Burberry, Chanel, Kö
Königsallee (King's Avenue), or just "the Kö", is a 1km long fashionable boulevard with a canal in the middle, completed in the early 19th century. Tritonnenbrunnen has interesting sculptures at the beginning of the canal. Düsseldorf is Germany's most prominent fashion city and "the Kö" is known for its expensive stores, like Gucci, Cartier, Emporio Armani, Chanel, Burberry, Porsche, Prada, Calvin Klein etc, and as a center for fashion. It is one of Germany's busiest upscale shopping boulevards.. It starts at Corneliuplatz, known for it's old beautiful fountain Schalenbrunnen and ends at Graf-Adolf-Platz, where you find two tall glass skyscrapers (GAP15 from 2005 and Landesversicherungsanstalt from 1976). Along Königsallee you also find posh shopping gallerias as Sevens, KÖ-Galerie and Schadow-Arkaden. Galeria Kaufhof department store is also there in a beautiful art deco building, as well as the luxorious hotels Steigenberger Parkhotel, InterContinentaland Breidenbacher Hof. North of the Königsallee, at Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz and the green Hofgarten, is the Kö-Bogen, brand new postmodern/deconstructivist buildings with offices and stores designed by Daniel Liebeskind and Kö-Bogen II that is a completely green angular building.
![Graf-Adolf-Platz](Dusseldorf_Konigsallee_gallery_files/vlb_thumbnails2395/grafadolfplatz.jpg)
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