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AIDA’s Kissing Lips greet Rostock from roof of AIDA Home

AIDAHome office complex receives DGNB Gold certification

Since July 20, 2016, a bright redpair of kissing lips has been greeting Rostock locals and welcoming visitors tothe Hanseatic city from the roof of the new AIDA Home office complex in thecity harbor. In fact, it's two pairs of kissing lips to be precise: one facingin the direction of the old town, the other towards Warnow-Ufer. Any number ofcurious people stopped to watch as the corporate logo with its striking kissinglips and the colorful AIDA letters were installed on the roof of the corporateheadquarters of the cruise operator, AIDA Cruises. The creator of the famousAIDA kissing lips – which also adorn the bows of all eleven AIDA ships – is theRostock artist, Felix Büttner.

The logo on top of AIDA Homeweighs 110 kilograms and, thanks to state-of-the-art LED technology, can alsobeen seen from far away at night. The AIDA inscription is around five meterslong and 1.4 meters high. The kissing lips are 2.6 meters high and 4.9 meterswide. To give you a comparison: the kissing lips on AIDAprima cover a totalarea of 150 m², a size that exceeds all decorative painting on the AIDA fleetto date.

Furthermore, the plaques displayingthe building's Gold certification from the German Sustainable Building Council(DGNB) have also been mounted. Last year the new office complex was alreadyawarded DGNB Silver certification. Because new standards for sustainablebuilding have since come into effect at international level, AIDA Home has nowbeen recertified as Gold. This makes the new office complex one of the mostsustainable buildings in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

AIDA Home's certificationinvolved the evaluation of a number of criteria including the conservation ofnatural building materials, renewable primary energy and drinking water, aswell as the amount of sealed floor space used, barrier freedom, and heat andnoise insulation.

Rostock, July 21,2016

About AIDA Cruises

AIDA Cruises is one of thefastest growing and most financially successful tourism businesses in Germany.The company employs about 8,000 people from 40 different countries at theircorporate offices and on board AIDA ships. AIDA Cruises operates and marketsone of the world's most state-of-the-art fleets, currently comprising 11 cruiseships. The ships are operated in compliance with the highest internationalquality, environmental and safety standards. Three additional ships will becommissioned in the coming years. With its "green cruising" concept, AIDA willbe the first cruise line in the world to operate ships entirely with LNG(liquefied natural gas) starting with the new ship generation 2019/2020.www.aida.de

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