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Take a look how the urban network of trams/metro/S-bahn/U-bahn changed from 1999 to 2004
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Follow the demolition of the Palast der Republik here:
http://www.dhm.de/zcam Some old pictures of the original Berliner Schloss to be rebuilt on the same spot: http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/6...sel19136sn.jpg http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/7...schloss0lc.jpg http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/6...lin19397ns.jpg http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/8...ergraben2f.jpg This new castle is to be integrated into the Humboldt Forum a part of the Museumsinsel area => http://www.museumsinsel-berlin.de/. + some aerial pictures of the old city centre: http://www.luftschiffreise.de/bilder...land-large.jpg http://www.luftschiffreise.de/bilder/zf-alex2-large.jpg http://www.luftschiffreise.de/bilder/zf-alex1-large.jpg |
BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- Germany's capital will have a major international air hub, after a federal court cleared the way for plans to expand the former East Berlin airport following nearly a decade of resistance from citizens.
Work to transform Schoenefeld airport into the new, state-of-the-art Berlin-Brandenburg International is to begin this summer, after the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig gave the project the go-ahead Thursday. Officials welcomed the ruling, saying the project, which has been hamstrung by protests and lawsuits, would give the capital and its surrounding region a badly needed economic boost. The new airport is expected to open in the fall of 2011 and create roughly 40,000 jobs. "This is the most important decision for Berlin since parliament voted to move the capital there," said Eric Schweitzer, the president of Berlin's Chamber of Commerce. Chancellor Angela Merkel said the airport would be a boon for the capital. "Now the path is clear for a modern, competitive international airport in Berlin," she said in a statement. "The new BBI is of great significance for the economic development of the Berlin-Brandenburg region and for the federal capital." Although the court said it saw no legal reason why the euro2.5 billion (US$3 billion) project to develop the former East Berlin airport should not proceed, it placed restrictions on night flights, including prohibiting landings after 10 p.m., and noise pollution. It also required developers to adequately compensate affected residents. Germany's second-largest carrier, Air Berlin, which currently has some flights in an out of Schoenefeld, criticized the night flight restrictions for seriously limiting business travel and freight flights, which normally arrive after passenger hours. "If you can't land between 10 p.m. and midnight, then it's not possible to attract business travelers," Air Berlin chief Joachim Hunold said. Pending completion of the new airport, West Berlin's more centrally located Tegel and Tempelhof airports are to remain open. Some 4,000 residents of Berlin and its surrounding state of Brandenburg, where Schoenefeld airport is located, had filed a series of legal suits in an attempt to block the expansion, which they maintain will cause environmental problems. |
The Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport (BBI), in the planning for almost 15 years, has had its wings clipped repeatedly. First conceived in the heady days after reunification, the airport has run into protests every step of the way from drawing board to construction crane.
Work had actually already begun on the site southeast of Berlin, but the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig ordered workers to put down their hammers last April until it heard complaints from almost 4,000 residents who opposed the two-billion-euro ($2.4 billion) project. But that same court today handed down a final ruling that allows construction to resume on the airport that proponents say could create up to 40,000 jobs in the economically struggling region and is essential if Berlin wants to remain in the top tier of European cities. BBI is scheduled to be opened by 2011. No further appeal against the ruling is possible New conditions set At the same time, the court did say authorities would have to take additional measures to reduce noise and the overall environmental impact of the air hub on the surrounding region. Opponents had argued that Berlin was well served by its three already existing airports, Tegel, Tempelhof and Schöneberg -- the latter once communist East Berlin's airport. But proponents, including politicians and business leaders, had argued that an international airport in Berlin was crucial for the further economic development of the region. Currently, Berlin is not easily reachable with direct flights from destinations outside of Europe. Often, it is necessary to fly through larger airports such as Frankfurt, Paris or London, when traveling overseas. Critics admitted even before the ruling that they did not think their chances of winning were great, but said if the court ruled that more environmental protection measures had to be put in place, it would be a partial victory. The airport would eventually result in the phasing out of Tegel and Tempelhof airports, and would make the German capital the country's second biggest air hub after the western city of Frankfurt. aerial picture of the BBI Airport: http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/8438/bbi7da.jpg |
Tiergartentunnel finished this Sunday
The 2,4 km long tunnel under the Tiergarten, Berlin has been completed this Sunday after ten years of construction.
Further information: (in German) http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/0...408036,00.html |
The world wheel
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Personally, I think there still is a role for Tempelhof. It can never handle large aircraft, but it would make the perfect city break airport once Berlins economy comes back to shape. It is very close to downtown Berlin, and would make the perfect equivilent to London's "City" airport. Any idea Grumpy what the plans for this airport are once it closes? Normon Foster called this building "The mother of all airports". Here are some photos. http://www.heine-foto.de/Heine&Heine...lhofDia_03.jpg The great curve of the terminal http://www.aborigines-aviation.de/RB...1010079_ff.jpg |
I'm sure that the government won't allow it to destroy the airport building.
I remember that there were plans to keep the area for a future Olympic Games develpoment. http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/1091/tempel17gv.jpg http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/2618/tempel29vq.jpg |
I have to check if there are flights from Frankfurt to Tempelhof, as I'd love to land in that airport before it closes.
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I know that the eastern part next to the airstrip was once planned to built a autobahn to Kreuzberg , got cancelled afterwards.
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the new main trainstation of BLN , official inauguration : may 27th and I am invited :yes:
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That's quite an honor to have been invited. So have a great time, Grumpy!:drummer:
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May I ask how tall that tower is in those aerial pics? the one with the dome in the middle? :)
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That is Berlin's tv tower with a total height of 368m.
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The Removal of the Palast der Republik
The Procedure The construction site at the Palace of the Republic was set up in January 2006 - the actual dismantling work began one month later. The first phase of the removal will last until June 2006 and involve dismantling the steel, glass and aluminium exterior elements, and removing the roof. To do this, two revolving tower cranes will be set up on the side of the Palace facing away from the Spree River and one on the side facing Rathausstrasse. Two more cranes will be involved in phase two of the removal: one along the Spree and one on the Palace Square. As soon as the fill has been successfully poured into the basement, these five cranes will remove the steel framework and ceilings piece by piece starting with the centre section, the foyer. When the removal of the centre foyer is complete, the two remaining Palace sections on each side will stand apart from each other like individual buildings. At this point, it will be possible to extend the ground rail track of the revolving crane located on the Palace Square through the former foyer area almost all the way to the Spree. Much like the crane on the Rathhausstrasse side of the Palace, this crane will be able to function over the entire breadth of the building and move easily between the two remaining sections. The supporting frame of each of the two remaining sections will consist of seven steel trussed beams, each weighing up to 325 tons and extending up to 81 metres. In the third dismantling phase, these beams will be hoisted upwards one at a time by two heavy mobile cranes and disassembled on the ground. After this, the principal supports that held the frame will be torn down. In the end, only the eight reinforced concrete towers that housed the staircases and elevators will remain standing. In the final dismantling phase, these 30-metre high concrete cores will be demolished using four long front excavators with hydraulic pincers. Trucks and wheeled loaders will transport the shattered concrete pieces to the pier where they will be transported away. A total of 78,000 tons of demolition material will result from the dismantling of the Palace. All of it must be recycled or disposed of properly and in an environmentally friendly manner: * 19,300 tons of iron and steel (sections and reinforced) * 56,600 tons of concrete * 600 tons of bricks and wood * 500 tons of glass (approx. 8,200 m2) * 1,000 tons of bitumen mixtures, plastics and insulating materials * 200 tons of material needing special monitoring |
The Olympic Stadium is ready to host the guests
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"Alexa" shopping centre U/C:
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Go ahead for new Berlin airport !
http://www.berlin-airport.de/bbi/dir...kartedaten.jpg Presentation of the Latest Plans for the Capital’s New BBI Airport The mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, the state premier of the state of Brandenburg, Matthias Platzeck, German federal transport minister, Wolfgang Tiefensee, and the managers of Berlin Airports presented the latest plans for the capital’s new BBI Airport at a joint press conference on Monday. The project data are impressive: * As a result of the extension work, Schönefeld Air-port will be expanded by an area measuring 970 hectares. In total the new airport will cover 1470 hectares or 2,000 football pitches. * The midfield terminal will have six floors and the initial version will have enough space to handle 22 – 25 million passengers a year. * According to current plans, the initial version of the terminal will have 16 jetways. Plans have also been drawn up to provide about ten walk board-ing positions. * BBI will have more than 65 aircraft parking stands. * Passengers at BBI will find everything ranging from domestic to European and even interconti-nental flights under one roof in the central termi-nal (“one roof concept”). * As many as 6,500 passengers will take off or land during a typical peak business hour at BBI. * The building costs for the airport amount to two billion euros. The costs for road and rail connec-tions and outside investments (e.g. car parks, ho-tels and conference centres) are not included in this figure. Berlin’s mayor, Klaus Wowereit, had this to say about the BBI plans: “Berlin will take a huge step forwards with BBI. We are expecting new intercontinental flights to come here and we believe that passenger numbers will continue to rise over the next few years. BBI is firmly anchored in the region with its distinctive architecture. I am certain that the new airport will be a fitting business card for the German capital.” Matthias Platzeck, the state premier of Brandenburg, said he believed that BBI was the key project for the Ber-lin/Brandenburg region. “BBI is extremely important for the domestic economy. I am sticking to my guns: it will enable us to take off into the future. Everybody can now get an idea of what the new airport will look like by look-ing at the terminal architecture. This image will become reality over the next few years. It will also play its part in giving our region a new face.” German federal transport minister Wolfgang Tiefensee stressed the importance of the airport for Germany as a whole: “In BBI, the German capital is obtaining an airport that can hold its own in the face of international services and competition. This will also set a clear signal for the regeneration of eastern Germany. BBI will not only stimu-late the employment market in the region around the capital, but it will also further reinforce the economic power of eastern Germany. We will also tackle the steps needed to provide excellent transport connections quickly, so that BBI can enter service as planned in 2011.” BBI will provide the urgently needed airport for the region around the German capital to cover the volume of air traffic in the next few decades. Once the airport opens at the start of the 2011/2012 winter timetable with a capac-ity to handle 22 – 25 million passengers per annum, it will be possible to expand BBI in modules to handle as many as 40 million passengers, depending on the way that the market develops. “Berlin Airports are already growing faster than the mar-ket at the moment. We will continue this success story with BBI. We are placing BBI on the market as an airport at the heart of Europe with a strong focus on European and intercontinental point-to-point traffic,” the CEO of Berlin Airports, Dieter Johannsen-Roth, said in summa-rising the marketing strategy. “BBI will be one of a new generation of airports: func-tional, with clear lines, flooded with light and cosmopoli-tan. We will realise architecture to match this at low cost prices,” said BBI managing director Thomas Weyer. “Af-ter a start has been made on the building work in 2006, the major work needed for the new runway and the rail-way station will begin in 2007. Work on the terminal will start in 2008. Then the airport will start to take shape”. Here is a summary of the airport of the future: The architecture: With its echoes of regional architec-ture, BBI will clearly find its place in the region near the German capital. The terminal with its divided facades and clear geometric forms continues architectural ele-ments ranging from the Prussian designer Karl Friedrich Schinkel to the Bauhaus style. The central access road, which will be an avenue lined with trees, picks up charac-teristic features from the townscapes and countryside of the Berlin/Brandenburg region. Check-in: The days of paper tickets are numbered. E-tickets will dominate the airport world of tomorrow. As a result, there will not only be 80 check-in desks, but also about 200 airline check-in machines at BBI. Passengers will then be able to use them to print out boarding cards themselves, e.g. for flights booked on the Internet. Retail/Non-aviation: Modern journeys start at the airport of tomorrow after the security check. Shops and restau-rants, cafés and bars will be just as important at BBI as runways and check-in desks. There will also be top-class catering and retail facilities outside the security zone for visitors to BBI and hotels and conference centres in the AirportCity area. Security: Airports of tomorrow will have even more stringent security areas than today. The EU Commission beefed up the security rules for airports at the beginning of 2006 once again. For example, these make personal checks on staff working at airports obligatory. As many as seven different flows of passengers (incoming, outgo-ing, transfer, EU, non-EU, Schengen, non-Schengen) will have to be strictly separated in future. The BBI planners have already taken these complex requirements into account in their work even before the ground-breaking ceremony takes place. This also enables them to mini-mise any loss of time possibly caused by tougher secu-rity rules. Modern identification processes will play an important role at BBI. Berlin Airports are already suc-cessfully testing biometric identity processes at Schöne-feld and Tegel Airports. Ideal traffic connections: BBI will also have the best possible connections on the ground. It will be easy for passengers to reach the airport by car using the A 113 (new) motorway or the B 96a main road via a central terminal access road. Rail travellers will get off trains at the underground terminal station after the 20 minute trip from the main/Lehrter station and will be able to reach the terminal in a matter of minutes using the escalators and lifts. Environmental compatibility: Environmental compati-bility plays a major role in the plans for BBI. Noise levels caused by aircraft on the ground are largely absorbed by the airport site because of the midfield concept. Rea-sonably priced operating and maintenance costs are an important part of the plans for BBI. The planners have attached particular importance to ideal energy consump-tion in the individual buildings. The plans not only include the use of highly innovative heat recovery systems, but renewable energy systems have also been integrated – e.g. geothermal energy or cooling systems using rain-water. An ecological building supervision process will minimise environmental pollution during building work (e.g. transferring protected species of animals, using low-noise building vehicles and low-noise asphalt for building roads). Comprehensive balancing and substitution meas-ures (e.g. the renaturation of an area measuring 2,000 hectares south of Berlin) will accompany the expansion of the airport. source : http://www.berlin-airport.de |
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Time to put the spotlights on a famous bridge : Oberbaumbruecke
http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.d...ix/bild_19.jpg Static system Historic massive vaults over seven bays with studded elevated railway viaduct (old), middle section of reinforced concrete. For elevated railway, new preflex continuous beams on pendulum frame and middle section as steel frame Foundation Spread pier foundations (old) Equipment Railway facilities, historical bridge facilities (weir towers, gables, coats of arms) Design 1894: bridge construction office, head Dr. James Hobrecht and architect Otto Stahn, 1992: central construction and modern design Architect Dr. Santiago Calatrava Valls SA, Paris/Zürich and WKP Planungsbüro für Bauwesen GmbH, Berlin; Historical construction ABKB, Berlin, with Prof. Deiters, Berlin Execution Arge Wiederherstellung der Oberbaumbrücke Phillip Holzmann AG, Berlin; E. Heitkamp GmbH, Berlin; Gebr. Kemmer GmbH, Berlin Building costs approx. DM 70 million Construction period 1894 - 1902 Refurbishment: 1992 - 1995 Overall length 150 m Clear span of openings 7.50 m, 16 m, 19 m, 22 m, 19 m, 16 m, 7.50 m Total width 27.90 m Effective width 22 m Building height Middle opening 1 m Bridge area 4,185 sq.m The Oberbaumbrücke was constructed over the River Spree in 1724 as a wooden bridge. For centuries it was by far the longest bridge in Berlin. In 1894 it was renewed as a solid construction with seven vaults and a studded viaduct to accommodate the first elevated railway in Berlin. Because of its location in the border area between West and East Berlin, the bridge which was blown up during World War II could not be reinstated until after reunification as a link between the districts of Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain. More extensive refurbishment of its historical appearance involved upgrading the road surface by using reinforced and pre-stressed concrete. The elevated railway was given a completely new load bearing construction. The middle opening was closed as a counter point to the form with a modern steel frame whereas in the side areas preflex supports on steel frames were incorporated into the viaduct. After specification of the definitive design, construction work could begin in 1992. In order to accelerate work, a temporary pedestrian bridge was erected downstream. In time for the fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall the roadway and the lower side walkway were reopened on 9 November 1994. With the integration of the strutted frame in April 1995, the last gap was closed in the elevated railway connection to the station Warschauer Straße to the north of Oberbaumbrücke. This meant that the route extension could be used as planned in October 1995. |
Austrian Embassy looks very nice :)
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Famous spot for sale in Berlin
A premiere real estate address - once the location of one of pre- war Berlin's top department stores, later the home of a legendary night club in the reunited German capital - is up for sale. Last week, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany listed the 22,000-square-meter, or 5.4-acre, property on Leipziger Platz that belongs to the Wertheim family. It is the largest piece of undeveloped property remaining in the city center, and is expected to be worth millions of dollars. Fabian Hüther, managing director of CB Richard Ellis in Berlin, was uneasy about quoting a price, saying only that the land would sell into the "three-digit millions." A similar parcel of two hectares, or five acres, on Potsdamer Platz - which formerly belonged to the Wertheims - was sold for $150 million in 2000 by KarstadtQuelle, the country's largest department-store operator. "The location is surely one of the most well-known in Berlin," Hüther said. "It's on a vital east-west street axis. It's in an area that's frequented by a lot of people, and one of the most attractive properties in that area." Also, Hüther said, there are no limits on development. "I can't imagine such an opportunity will present itself again," he said. But the Berlin commercial market has been anything but welcoming for investors recently. The roller-coaster years that followed the dot-com bust have passed, but a Deutsche Bank analyst, Tobias Just, said there is an oversupply. "It's not yet a market for core investors, if you don't have a property you can rent to the Treasury or Chancellery, for example," Just said. The listing by CB Richard Ellis marks the end of a successful court battle that reflected the fractured history of Germany's capital. "To say it was a twisted saga is greatly underestimated," said Gary Osen, a lawyer based in New Jersey. For four years, Osen has represented the Wertheim descendants in their quest to regain the vast holdings seized by the Nazi dictatorship in the 1930s. The Jewish family had one of the most successful department store businesses in early 20th-century Germany, the crown jewel of which was the upscale store on Leipzigerstrasse. The Nazis forced Georg Wertheim, then the head of the company's board, to leave the business and used its choice property for some of their most notorious buildings, including the Reich's Chancellery and Hitler's bunker. After Allied bombers laid waste to the site in 1944, the property entered a state of limbo. "In the Cold War, it was the death strip, vacant lots, the buffer zone on the other side of the Wall," Osen said. "It was possibly the most worthless property around." During the 1990s, the store's former vaults delighted ravers from all over the world as the home of Tresor, the city's legendary techno club. In 1992 the Jewish claims conference, the group that helps distribute Nazi reparations, started a legal battle to get the former Wertheim properties in Berlin, including the Leipzigerstrasse address, back into the hands of the Wertheim heirs. The legal battle evolved into a political one in which the government briefly questioned the conference's claims and, in 2002, President George W. Bush and Gerhard Schröder, then chancellor of Germany, discussed the issue, according to The Wall Street Journal. The German restitution authority ruled in the Wertheims' favor, and the government eventually withdrew its appeals. In October 2005, the German Administrative Court in Leipzig finally ruled in favor of the Wertheims and forced KarstadtQuelle, which had bought out Wertheim, to relinquish its claims on the Leipzigerstrasse property. "I think for most of the family, pursuing this for the last umpteen years was more a matter of principle," Osen said. The claims conference will receive 20 percent of the sale proceeds, Osen said, with the family sharing the remainder. source: http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/...s/reberlin.php |
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Office Space Guide
- Kurfürstendamm None of the people strolling along Kurfürstendamm today is thinking about Bismarck. And yet it was the Iron Chancellor who laid the foundation stone for Berlin's lively boulevard. On his initiative the avenue was upgraded into a splendid boulevard in 1880. Ku'damm acquired its legendary reputation in the 1920s. After that, its glory diminished somewhat. Today, the times are long forgotten when it was decried as a »meatball boulevard«. Despite all the predictions to the contrary, people are once again investing in Kurfürstendamm. In any case, Berliners and visitors to Berlin never let short-sighted trend news prevent them from regularly frequenting the lifeline of the western city centre. The bourgeois residential buildings became home to a special form of the Berlin mixture of living and housing - with firms of lawyers, architects' offices and doctors' surgeries. Now, new office buildings are putting their 21st century stamp on Ku'damm. The general public approves. Crowds of people flock to the new buildings who are out for a stroll, window-shopping or simply looking for ways to spend their money. Old-established institutions like the Kempinski have survived whilst a new generation of city dwellers now enjoy a Latte Macchiato during the office breaks. The ambience in the side streets is classy and bustling. Jil Sander moved in here at the end of the 1990s. Louis Vuitton, Prada, Cartier, Hermès, Burberry, Cerutti and Gianni Versace complete the picture today. Ku'damm is back in business. - City West Everything points to the future. Amidst the daily hustle and bustle of thousands of people out for a stroll, the City West is giving itself a new face. Numerous new buildings are now occupied and give fresh impetus to the location. For instance on Fasanenstraße. The Ludwig Erhard building with the Berlin Stock Exchange, the restored Delphi terraces at the Theater des Westens and the distinctive roof sail of the Kant triangle have transformed this street. Just a few metres away the Neues Kranzlereck provides the transparent backdrop for a similar new beginning on Joachimstaler Straße. Ku-Damm Karree and City Light House are now finished. Young inline skaters do the rounds on the roof of the Karstadt sports store, the former Bilka department store, which has been carefully refurbished in line with protected building provisions. The urban heart of the region is still Breitscheidplatz with the Memorial Church. New light strips in the ground will soon bath the church in gentle light and turn night into day. All around the square projects are entering the final phase which will add further landmarks to the renowned Europa-Center: The Zoobogen ensemble with the Bikini building and Zoopalast are being converted; the car tunnel in front will soon disappear. With the Zoo Window and another office tower, which will replace the barrier of the Schimmelpfeng Building and open up the square onto Kantstraße, stone exclamation marks of the new age are about to emerge. - Spree Area West The water, which once attracted the manu-facturing industry, makes this location into an insider tip. The inner city quarters along the Spree in Moabit and Charlottenburg are increasingly coming into their own. Traces of bygone eras have been skilfully integrated into the urban landscape. The Federal Minister for Interior Affairs has taken up residence on the site of the former Bolle dairy; supermarkets and restaurants have moved into an old building of the milk supplier. Beside that an old winding tower stands resplendent in the high-tech centre Focus Teleport. The historical oven buildings of the Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur (KPM Royal Porcelain Manufacture) have been converted into an event location of unique atmosphere. The KPM site makes up the centre of Spreestadt Charlottenburg, which is expanding daily between Spree and Landwehrkanal. Mercedes World on Salzufer and a neighbouring office tower have been finished. Next to Tiergarten station a new hotel will open soon, and right behind it, leading health care associations are about to move into their new office buildings. Attention is increasingly focussing on the capital embodied in the numerous waterfront locations. This also applies to the Charlottenburg Spreebogen in which - around the technical production centre of the Technical University and Fraunhofer Institute - new office buildings are springing up on both sides of the Spree. Here, too, the old has not been sacrificed: In the lofts of the industrial yard Helmholtzstraße Osram once manufactured light bulbs, on Gotzkowsky bridge star architect Josef P. Kleihues successfully combined old warehouses with an ellipsoidal new building for the Spree-Forum. - Potsdamer / Leipziger Platz It is and remains the showcase of the new beginning after the political turnaround: Potsdamer Platz was first Europe's largest building site and then a symbol of the new centre of Berlin. For some years now, the DaimlerChrysler-Areal and Sony Center have been established features in the life of the city. It is not just the Berlinale Film Festival that attracts thousands of visitors every year. Berliners and visitors to Berlin have taken over the square - and along with it the Musical Theatre, the shops, cinemas, hotels and restaurants. In the shadow of the new high-rise buildings the derelict plots, which had separated Potsdamer Platz up to now from the rest of the city, are also disappearing. On the Lenné triangle, the scaffold-ing at the Beisheim Center and the Ritz Carlton has been dismantled. Sun worshippers flock to the lawn of the Prachtgleis park between the Park Colonnades and the DaimlerChrysler-Areal during their break. The representative offices of several federal Länder have moved into the Ministers' Gardens. The adjacent Leipziger Platz is also taking shape. On the southern half of the octagon the last three buildings are already stretching upwards. On its northern half the Canadian Embassy is soon to move in. As the neighbour of the Bundesrat, Leipziger Platz is shaping up nicely as an elegant variation of the busy locations on Potsdamer Platz. - Oranienstraße Nights are long in Kreuzberg - not just because people are out and about until the early hours of the morning but because many of them work through the night. Against the backdrop of the Kreuzberg mixture of living and working the boundaries between private and professional life become blurred. The old production buildings are very much in demand today both as work and residential lofts. In the 1970s the Land-owned Gewerbesiedlungs-Gesellschaft started the renovation work. Today, everyone has recognised that the old building fabric is valuable capital in any district. Industrial yards are particularly attractive to young, small and mid-sized companies. They like the high standard of living and housing: shops in the same building, cafés and leisure activities on the doorstep. From the Prinzenbad swimming pool there is direct access to the legendary underground Line 1. Multicultural influences and the in-scene do the rest and turn the district into a popular location for companies which employ young, creative people who are constantly looking for fresh ideas. At the former border crossing point, Prinzenstraße and at the Engelbecken the neighbourhood heals the wounds of the divided city. The Schinkel riding hall has been refurbished and residential buildings and shopping malls have been added. - Southern Friedrichstraße To the south of Leipziger Straße the streams of Friedrichstraße fan out. Just behind Checkpoint Charlie, Kochstraße takes on the most important distribution function. The GSW ensemble of a green »pillbox« and the easily discernible ecological building with its distinctive red awnings has become the landmark of the street. Other new projects are now finished: the office centre Markgrafenpark and the Axel Springer Building with its shopping mall and the Ullsteinhalle which can accommodate up to 1,000 visitors. The boom, which began on the Wall strip and came to be symbolised by new buildings at Checkpoint Charlie and Aldo Rossi's Schützen-Karree, has now spread to southern Friedrich-straße. The impetus extends as far as Askanischer Platz and politicians are also doing their bit here. The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development is based in the Europahaus, the Ministry of Finance on Wilhelmstraße. Between distinctive cultural buildings like the Tempodrom, Jewish Museum and the Martin Gropius building, the neighbourhood has plenty of space for every day inner city life. The area around south Friedrichstraße links Kreuzberg and the new centre, bringing together the best of both worlds. - Central Friedrichstraße Boulevard of brands and prestigious showrooms: elegant cars, fashion labels and luxury brands turn Friedrichstraße around Galeries Lafayette and the FriedrichstadtPassagen into the catwalk of elegant society. That's what is visible. Between, above and behind the shop windows a high calibre infrastructure of people used to success has established itself. It is not so often the focus of public attention but at least as important: European and group headquarters, capital representative offices, smart private clubs, cigar lounges, top hotels and gourmet temples like Borchardts, Vau or Trenta Sei put their stamp on baroque Friedrichstadt around the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt. Media representatives, diplomats and politicians are an absolute must, too. The Federal Ministry of Justice has its headquarters on Mohrenstraße, the Ministry for Family Affairs on Taubenstraße. Belgium's embassy is located on Jägerstraße, one of the connections to Hausvogteiplatz which is undergoing a renaissance. The boulevard Unter den Linden is also being given a facelift. The pavements on both sides of the elegant boulevard are being widened by almost three metres in order to accommodate the crowds of people out strolling and visitors to Berlin. The rows of trees, which have suffered the effects of city gas and thawing salt, are also being spruced up. For years strong silver linden and Kaiser's linden trees have been nurtured which will soon offer new shade amidst the hustle and bustle of the district Mitte. - Northern Friedrichstraße Between the Charité Hospital, the river Spree and Friedrichstraße the government quarter has just undone its top button. Political and business associations, newspaper offices and television stations are keen to be close to the government and the nearby Federal Press Office in Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt. For instance, Marienstraße: the grey building gully has blossomed. The alternative scene in the back courtyards has been joined by galleries, architects and the dpa company in the front. There is a similar picture on Reinhardtstraße, where the FDP party headquarters are located. The Spree is proving a popular location for neigh-bours to get together for a chat. This is the site of the »Permanent Representative Office« of the prominent Bonn landlord, Friedel Drautzburg, in the heart of an entire pearl necklace of restaurants. Between them established and young culture come together. Deutsches Theater meets the Palace of Tears, the Berliner Ensemble the Quatsch Comedy Club. Tacheles and Kalkscheune document the transition to the fashionable district Spandauer Vorstadt. The Metropol Theater is to reopen. This also ensures the survival of the cabaret legend Distel at its old location which has just celebrated its 50th anniversary. Refurbishment work on the station next door was completed above ground in 1999 and on its underground platform in 2002. Between the station and the linden trees, pedestrians inject life into the recently completed projects. New Trade and Commerce Center, Friedrich Carrée and the cultural department store Dussmann have extended the shopping precinct beyond the linden trees to the station. - Friedrichshain The main axis of the district has cast off the patina of the Wall years. On Karl-Marx-Allee Berlin has spruced up an urban development icon of the 20th century: Strausberger Platz, Cinema International, Café Moskau, the Kosmos Cinema and the Frankfurt Gate have all been given a facelift. More and more young people are moving here. You can forgive the Allee for retaining its somewhat leisurely character. It is young enough for that - Europe's only elegant boulevard to emerge after the War. The team of architects around Hermann Henselmann designed buildings with a love of detail in the Moscow gingerbread style. Today, the boulevard is livelier where it changes its name. On Frankfurter Allee with the Ring-Center and the Frankfurter Allee Plaza there are new meeting points not only for local residents. Elsewhere, too, Friedrichshain is more up-to-date than ever before. In the old quarters along the Allee the district is taking over from Prenzlauer Berg as the most in district. This is where avant-garde trends are made, where trendsetters garner ideas for the aesthetics of the 21st century. Simon-Dach-Straße has an abundance of cafés, bars, restaurants and clubs. And via Warschauer Straße the young Friedrichshain maintains a link to Mediaspree, where Universal Music and MTV have set up shop. - Spree Area Mitte »Anchoring ground - Future« - Berlin's centre of excellence for media and entertainment is taking shape under this slogan on the river Spree between Mitte, Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain. City-Carrée, the German Architecture Centre (DAZ), Trias, Oberbaum-City and the Schilling bridgehead, the Postbahnhof converted into an exhibition hall and the redesign of the Ostbahnhof - the long list of completed projects is impressive evidence that the restructuring of the former derelict border area is in full swing. The music giant Universal already moved to Osthafen in 2002 and MTV followed suit in 2004. That's hardly surprising: insiders already know that this is where you'll find the trendiest dance clubs in the capital. The conversion work is ongoing. All round the Anschütz Arena for 16,000 spectators, a quarter encompassing some 21 hectares is taking shape with restaurants, cafés, clubs, residential accommodation and offices - directly adjacent to a similar project at the Postbahnhof. Along the river Spree there is a series of projects like the Victoria storage building site, Spreeurban, Spreesinus Spreeport (with the headquarters of German trade union Ver.Di) and the Energy Forum Berlin. They are all conspicuous stand-alones which merge into a green urban landscape. This leaves space for light, air and exciting water vistas. The East Side Gallery has also been maintained but opened up over a width of 45 metres to accommodate a plaza looking onto the river Spree. Behind the Wall a waterfront park is developing contours which will be home to yet another unusual stand-alone, the Globe Theatre of the Berlin Shakespeare Company. |
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Update Anschutz Areal
http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.d...2world_390.jpg O2 World What will be one of Europe's most modern, multifunctional arenas is to be constructed in the heart of Berlin, between Ostbahnhof and Oberbaumbrücke. With up to 17,000 seats and standing rooms, 59 entertainment suites, conference and party suites, as from 2008 Berlin will have the looked-for opportunity to host international upscale sport an entertainment events. A 1,800 m² LED installation at the 20,000 m² glass facade will work as a huge screen and inform vistitors and passers-by in a unique way. The central location, right in the middle of town, combined with excellent transport connections via ICE, regional trains and S-Bahn and U-Bahn trains, will make the O2 World well attractive for Berlin and outside visitors. As a result of the close proximity to the Spree River and the already existent urban quarters of Oberbaum City and Spreespeicher, the site at the Berlin Ostbahnhof presents an extremely attractive area for modern business from the music, service and media industries to locate. Anschutz Areal at Ostbahnhof Owner: Anschutz Entertainment Group Detlef Kornett, Managing Director Project management: Kevin Murphy, Senior Vice President Development Tel. +49 (30) 20 60 70 80, Fax +49 (30) 20 60 70 810 E-mail: info@anschutz-entertainment-group.de Project description: Development of an urban quarter around the core of the multi-functional used O2 World Location: Area of the former east goods station in Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Size of the area: 21 hectares Gross floor space: 600.000 m² General urbanistic target: Development of an lively urban area between the traffic junctions Ostbahnhof and Warschauer Brücke as a meeting place of sports and recreation, economy and culture, work and housing - with the o2 World as an urbanistic core. Mission: Urbanistic development and connection of the site at the former east goods station with the post area in the west, the area at the Warschauer Straße in the east and the Spreespeicher. Inclusion of the southerly located Mühlenstraße with East-Side-Gallery and Spreeuferpark under removal of the barriers between Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg. Use: Entertainment, gastronomy, retail, offices, hotels and housing Medien-Büro Berlin: Schröder+Schömbs PR, Project director: Melanie Sommer-Jöst, Tel. 030 – 349 96 4 14, Fax 030 – 349 96 479 Email: melanie@s-plus-s.com O2 World Investor: Anschutz Entertainment Group Represented by: Detlef Kornett, Managing Director, Anschutz Entertainment Group Tel. +49 (30) 20 60 70 80, Fax +49 (30) 20 60 70 810 E-mail: info@anschutz-entertainment-group.de Project description: Multi-functional hall for music, entertainment and sport events Location: At the former Ostgüterbahnhof (Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg) Size of the area: approx. 30,000 m² Gross floor space: 58,000 m² Arena Dimensions: Lenght: 160 m; Width: 130 m; Height: 35 m Capacity of seats: up to 17,000 seats and standing rooms Suites: 59 entertainment suites, conference and party suites Restaurant: 600 seats Urbanisation around O2 World: Entertainment quarter, gastronomy, office buildings, hotels, retailers, apartment houses Parking space: Approx. 1,200 sites for the O2 World Transportation connections: ICE high-speed trains, regional trains and public transportation Financing: 150 million, private equity of the multi-functional hall by Anschutz Entertainment Group Website: www.o2-world.de Construction time: 24 months, opening 2008 Medien-Büro Berlin: Schröder+Schömbs PR, Project director: Melanie Sommer-Jöst, Tel. 030 – 349 96 4 14, Fax 030 – 349 96 479 Email: melanie@s-plus-s.com O2 World: Figures & Facts General * The opening is planned for the summer of 2008 * The costs for the Arena construction project will amount to EUR 150 million * The construction period will presumably amount to 24 months Capacities * Maximum capacity of up to 17,000 seats and standing room * 59 entertainment suites * Conference suites and party suites Size and Technical Data * Length: 160 m, width: 130 m, height: 35 m * Gross cubic content: approximately 500,000 m³ * Total area of the site: 180,000 m² * Total area of Arena: 60,000 m² * Plaza areas: 12,000 m² * Road and access facilities: 48,000 m² * Maximum area vor events: 60m x 40m * Ice hockey playing field: 60m x 30m Technical Facilities * The distributed ceiling load capacity amounts to 500kg/m² for the normal area and 750 - 1,000 kg/m² for the area housing mechanical facilities * 4 truck accessways into the interior of the Arena * Load applied to the roof o From the steel roof above the stage: 67 tonnes (distributed) o In front of the stage - from the main roof 67 tonnes (distributed), approximately 2/3 of the main roof LED Façade * Semi-circle glass façade (105 degrees), width: 120 m; height: 15 m * 1,800 m² LED installation with 300,000 LED clusters Concession Stands / Restaurants * Restaurants (Premium Lounge, Dinner Club) * 88 points of sale * 2 stores Locker Rooms / Dressing Rooms * 6 locker rooms * 4 star dressing rooms Building Statistics * The façade area of the Arena is approximately 20,000 m² in size * The steel construction of the roof weighs approximately 1,770 tonnes * The ice surface of the Arena covers 1,800 m² * Approximately 35,000 m³ of concrete and approximately 7,000 tonnes of steel reinforcement are required for the body shell work of the Arena * Approximately 1,500 tonnes of steel are required for the roof location: http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.d...schutz_620.jpg |
The Berlin Academy of Architecture
http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.d...ademie_390.jpg The Academy of Architecture , erected by Friedrich Schinkel between 1832 – 36, was, for its time, a provocatively unadorned, modern, but at the same time prestigious building, which did not please contemporaries. Today, it is still regarded as Schinkel’s most momentous piece of work. The institutions which occupied the building over the years have also contributed to its fame, however. Firstly, the Prussian Academy of Architecture and Supreme Construction Deputation, and after the First World War, the German School of Politics took up residence there. The foundation of the Academy of Architecture Sponsor Association , constitutes a solid perspective for the reconstruction of the Academy and its use. There are plans to develop a collection of documents regarding the architectural history of Berlin. The combination of private and public involvement is expected to lead to the creation of a new exhibition and competence centre for architecture and construction in Berlin. Academy of Architecture - View from 1905 http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.d...ademie_310.jpg Academy of Architecture - Painting of Gärtner http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.d...ademie_300.jpg |
Am Zirkus
http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.d...zirkus_390.jpg Am Zirkus 1 is situated directly on the bank of the Spree river in Berlin-Mitte, not far from the Federal Ministries and the Chancellery. Due to its centrality, it also enjoys excellent public transport connections. Alongside 21.000 m² of office and business surface, approx.120 apartments are to be built on 9.000 m² in the nine storey building project. On the basis of the various use and marketing possibilities, the building, equipped with an underground garage, divides into three individual parts from the ground floor. They are unified by a coarse metal structure into one building. Master Plan: Deutsche Immobilien AG Architect: Bothe Richter Teherani Plan: http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.d...s_plan_150.jpg Model: http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.d...zirkus_220.jpg Aerial Photo with Model: http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.d...zirkus_230.jpg |
Monuments in Berlin:
Umspannwerk Wilhelmsruh http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.d...ilhelmsruh.jpg Kopenhagener Straße 83/89, Pankow; Phasenschieberhalle mit Wohntürmen (phase transformer building with residential towers), Messwarte (measuring station), Schalterhalle (breaker station) and Umformerstationen (transformer stations), 1925 by Hans Heinrich Müller for BEWAG From 1925-32 Bewag, the municipal power provider of the city of Berlin, constructed a new, ultra-modern, area-wide AC-power supply network. This network included fourteen large transformer stations which transformed power current supplied by the main power stations to voltage for local distribution. The architect responsible for this construction program was Hans Heinrich Müller, according to whose designs more than forty power distribution stations emerged. The transformer station at Wilhelmsruh was one of the first projects. Müller developed an exciting expressionistic architecture which was to characterize his later designs as well. He grouped individual structures strictly according to function as a symmetrical four-winged installation around the central control station. The remaining buildings are arranged according to the production process, with the phase transformer building on the street side, the transformers in both side wings and the breaker station at the rear. Without concealing its technical character, the power station is reminiscent of a castle of a knights' order, with its residential buildings surmounting the structure like corner towers, flanking staircase towers and mighty gate. The breaker station is the functional and artistic culmination of the station. The installations of the transformer station were centrally controlled and monitored for the duration of its service. |
Monuments in Berlin:
Turbinenhalle http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.d...binenhalle.jpg Turbinenhalle, Huttenstraße 12-16, Tiergarten; 1908-09 by Peter Behrens and Karl Bernhard, expansion 1939-40 by Jacob Schallenberger and P. Schmidt; administration building, around 1956 by AEG-Baubüro (AEG Construction Bureau) A picture of the turbine building can be found in any good architectural manual. It is considered to be the beginning of modern industrial architecture in Germany. Beginning in 1908, AEG founder Emil Rathenau commissioned its construction to house the production of its ultra-modern turbines. Within a few short years, AEG had ascended from the inception of power supply to world-class status and was among the few companies at the forefront of technical development. This, too, was to be reflected in its entire image to the outside world. Rathenau was the first to apply the utmost in marketing strategies, commissioning the artist and self-taught architect Peter Behrens to design all electrical products for the company, such as electric arc lamps, fans and electric boilers, and, starting with the turbine building, also the architecture of all of the factories. The turbine building consists entirely of steel, glass and concrete, the modern materials of industrial construction. Rather than hide the advanced technology and new kinds of production methods in the interior as was the former style, the outer shell instead was to follow from of these advancements and express them. The result is evident in the stern, clean lines and the renunciation of all ornamentation. But Behrens also rendered the building in the manner of a monumental temple in order to express the magnificence of production. He transformed simple materials into a dignified, powerful form. Although the bent gables of the frontal façade and side pylon consist of nothing more than a few centimeters of concrete over an iron framework, in combination with the glazing they have the effect of a refined, stately façade. By contrast, the area between the supports of the elongated façade is entirely of glass. The slight incline of the corner pylon and lateral inward glazing grant the structure a dynamic character in the context of the roof's projection and the precise sequence of the side supports. |
Monuments in Berlin:
Siemenswerke http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.d...emenswerke.jpg Siemenswerke Nonnendammallee 72, Spandau; Dynamowerk-Hallenkomplex (generator plant complex), 1906 by Karl Janisch and Carl Dihlmann, 1909-12 expansion by Janisch, 1922 and 1940-42 expansion by Hertlein Nonnendammallee 101, Spandau; Hauptverwaltungsgebäude (administrative center), 1910-13 by Karl Janisch and Friedrich Blume, 1922-30 expansion by Hans Hertlein Schaltwerk-Hallenkomplex control center complex, 1916 by Karl Janisch, 1921-22 and 1926-28 expansion by Hans Hertlein Nonnendammallee 104, Spandau; Schaltwerk-Hochhaus (high-rise control center), 1926-28 by Hans Hertlein; Siemensdamm 50-54, Charlottenburg; Wernerwerk-Hochhaus (industrial high-rise), 1929-30 by Hans Hertlein Siemensdamm 62, Charlottenburg; Wernerwerk XV (industrial structure), 1924-25 and later expansion by Hans Hertlein Industrialization brought forth large-scale corporations at the end of the nineteenth century, causing an explosion in the scope of historical city growth. New districts with names such as Borsigwalde, Spindlersfeld or Siemenstadt sprang up around the factories of enterprises as these migrated out to the undeveloped areas outside the city. Located between Charlottenburg and Spandau, Siemensstadt is an example of this development in Berlin. The center of the district is not constituted by the church and the city hall as is customary, but rather by the administrative centers of large concerns. Larger than the city hall of any Berlin district, such locations for the first time documented the international standing of these corporations. The Siemens architect Karl Janisch set the administrative structure against a cathedral of engineering in the impressive Dynamowerk. The head of the enterprise, its strategic center, was integrated into a unified complex with its technical heart, the large-scale assembly structure for the Dynamo generator invented by Werner von Siemens. The next forty years of company architecture were defined by the architect Hans Hertlein, who created the "Siemens style" with his unique industrial architecture. Among his most important structures in Siemensstadt are the storage building begun in 1916 and expanded in several construction phases until 1928 and the ten-story disk of the control center on Nonnendammallee built from 1926-28; along with the Wernerwerk industrial high-rise on Siemensdamm, erected in two construction phases from 1928-30 and 1936/37 and the prominent five to ten-story, triple-angled buildings of the Wernerwerk XV on Siemensdamm, erected in four construction phases from 1924 to 1941. While the red clinker façades of his first high-rise steel-frame construction were still pillar structures accentuated by immense, protruding staircase towers and graduated upper stories, beginning in the 1930's Hertlein designed smooth cubical buildings, offering a moving silhouette of interlocked wing structures of different heights and looming staircase towers. |
Monuments in Berlin:
Kraftwerk Klingenberg http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.d...lingenberg.jpg Kraftwerk Klingenberg (Klingenberg Power-station) Köpenicker Chaussee 42-45, Lichtenberg; 1925-26 by Waltar Klingenberg and Werner Issel The Kraftwerk Klingenberg was Germany's most important new power plant structure of the 1920's. A technological marvel planned by the pioneer of modern power plant construction, Georg Klingenberg, it became the example of a new generation of large-scale power plants far beyond Germany's borders. In 1927 it was integrated into the power grid with an output of 270,000 KW, making it the largest, most modern power plant in Europe. The entire plant was organized in exemplary fashion. Coal was delivered via canal and rail connections built especially for the plant, transported by mechanical conveyors to the coal mill where it is broken, dried, and milled, and the coal dust blown into the furnaces of the two boiler houses. Connected engine rooms and control stations produced the power, which then was fed into the power network. The architects Waltar Klingenberg and Werner Issel created a design of extraordinary quality for the industrial complex situated on both sides of the Köpenicker Chaussee between railway terrain and the river Spree. Functional contours are brought to life by the effects of the materials: red clinker facing, varying masonry techniques and expressive details. The main accent is set by a severe, vertically sectioned 11-story high-rise administration building with ornamental clinker facing and a setback roof. On the opposite, southern side of the street is the elongated control station rhythmically enhanced by eight staircase towers. The complex on both sides of the street is connected by a bridge structure serving as a cable route and personnel walkway. |
Monuments in Berlin:
AEG Oberschöneweide http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.d...hoeneweide.jpg AEG Oberschöneweide Wilhelminenhofstraße 76-78, Köpenick; Kraftwerk und Kabelwerk Oberspree (power station and cable factory), begun in 1897 by Paul Tropp et.al. 09020121 Wilhelminenhofstraße 83-85, Köpenick; Deutsche Niles-Werkzeugmaschinen-Fabrik (machine-tool factory) (AEG-TRO), 1899 by Paul Tropp, around 1915, 1928 by Ernst Ziesel and around 1940 09020161 Ostendstraße 1-4, Köpenick; Nationale Automobil-Gesellschaft, Industrieanlage (industrial complex), Hochbauten und Doppelhalle (high-rise structures and duplex), 1913-17 by Peter Behrens By 1895, AEG had already begun constructing a long string of industrial installations in the southeast of Berlin, far on the outskirts of the city between the Upper Spree and what is today Wilhelminenhofstrasse. The district of Köpenick is characterized by their yellow brick façades to this day. From 1895-96, AEG constructed the first three-phase electrical power plant in Germany. Important stages in power engineering innovations were initiated in this plant, which was expanded and modernized several times before its closure in 1910. The older section of the Kabelwerk Oberspree was developed from 1897-1900 on Wilhelminenhofstrasse, and consisted of a five-bay industrial block and several multi-story structures. An automobile manufacturing plant was constructed between 1903 and 1905. The earlier principle of lining up independent, closed structures was abandoned when assembly line production was introduced; industrial halls and multi-story structures were built from 1915 to 1930. Three decades of industrial architecture are collected on the grounds of the cable works complex, erected by renowned AEG architects such as Paul Tropp, Johannes Kraatz, Klemm, Peter Behrens and Ernst Ziesel. This is particularly apparent in the triple-bay workshop building constructed by Klemm in 1899-1900 and then expanded by Ernst Ziesel and Gerhard Mensch to accommodate two new bay structures for the copper rolling-mill in 1928. The plant constructed for the Deutsche-Niles-Werkzeug-Maschinen-Fabrik starting in 1899 on Wilhelminenstrasse is characterized by the large assembly structure on the street side built from 1915-16. Peter Behrens' example is apparent in the structure's form and in the segmentation of its façade. On the same lot, Ernst Ziesel erected the cube of the large AEG transformer building in the form of a triple-hinged steel frame structure on Edisonstrasse in 1928. This building was constructed for AEG, which took over the plant in 1920. The imposing block of buildings of the automobile manufacturing plant, constructed by Peter Behrens from 1915 to 1917 for the AEG-owned Nationale Automobil Gesellschaft (NAG), rises above Ostendstrasse. Five-story wings for offices and the factory, capped with a prominent high tower on the corner of Wilhelminenhofstrasse, form a horseshoe around a double-bay assembly structure. |
Monuments in Berlin:
AEG am Humboldthain http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.d...mboldthain.jpg AEG am Humboldthain Brunnenstraße 111, Wedding; 1896-97 by Franz Schwechten; Alte Fabrik für Bahnmaterial (Old factory for railway materials), 1906-07 by Johannes Kraaz, conversion 1911 by Peter Behrens; Hochspannungsfabrik (High voltage factory), Kleinmotorenfabrik (Small motor factory), Montagehalle für Großmaschinen (Large machine assembly), Neue Fabrik für Bahnmaterial und Tor 4 (New factory for railway materials and gate 4), 1909-12 by Peter Behrens and Karl Bernhard; Erweiterung Montagehalle assembly (Hall expansion),1928 by Ernst Ziesel The electrical industry was second only to mechanical engineering in its influence on the character of Berlin's industrial development. Beginning in 1890, technical progress in Germany was propelled forward mainly by electrical industry enterprises located in Berlin like AEG, Siemens and OSRAM, which ultimately operated worldwide. Berlin's reputation as "electropolis" was owed primarily to Siemens and AEG. Starting in 1895, within a few years time AEG erected the enormous complex on Brunnenstrasse, representing tremendous production potential by the standards of the day. The Gothic-style Beamtentor ("Officers' Gate") designed by Franz Schwechten in 1896 stands as a reminder of the older, long since dismantled factories. Much in evidence in the factories constructed from 1907 onward is the signature of Peter Behrens, who developed modern architecture and product design as artistic advisor to AEG beginning in that year. The industrial buildings constructed for AEG in the following years according to his design were innovative models with considerable influence on the development of modern industrial architecture. The Hochspannungsfabrik, constructed of steel framework according to his design, was erected on the western factory site from 1909-10. Composed of a double-bay industrial hall flanked by two multi-story buildings connected by means of an office wing, the compact manufacturing plant displays an austere brick architecture of continuous pillars and large windows accentuated by immense staircase towers. The southwestern view of the hall's façade flanked by staircases, styled to resemble the front of a temple, is one of monumental dignity. The elongated structure of the Kleinmotorenfabrik (1910-12) dominates Voltastrasse with its long façade. design of robust semi-rounded pillars. Here Behrens raised the pillar façade so frequently used in Berlin's architecture of the period into the monumental. In the Neue Fabrik für Bahnmaterial constructed in 1911-1912 on the lot to the west, Behrens dispensed with a design differentiating between a simple courtyard and a monumental façade; here, both courtyard and façade are constructed of flat pillars framing large windows. This sweeping renunciation of sturdy structuring elements is also characterized by the triple-hinged girder construction (Karl Bernhard) of the Montagehalle für Großmaschinen built in 1911-12 on Hussitenstrasse. With his nearly flush arrangement of bricks, glass and the end surfaces of the steel supports, Behrens introduced a development which was later adopted by the stereometric architecture of New Realism in the 1920s. |
Monuments in Berlin:
Hochbahn http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.d...k/hochbahn.jpg Hochbahn Bülowstraße, Overhead railway installation between the Kreuzberg district boundary and Nollendorfplatz including entry ramp, 1899-1902 by Heinrich Schwieger, Alfred Grenander, Bruno Möhring, Cremer & Wolffenstein Oberbaumbrücke 1892-96 by Otto Stahn The standard railway system built by Siemens & Halske in 1896 and 1902 (presently line U1/U2) was Germany's first electrical overhead and underground railway system and is considered to be a master achievement in technical engineering. Linked to transfer stations of the city commuter railway, the rail line from East Berlin through the southern belt was built during the period of imperial consolidation via the Potsdam and Anhalter railway terrain to Charlottenburg. The Hochbahnviadukt (elevated train viaduct) and overhead railway stations were planned by Heinrich Schwieger and Johannes Bousset as transparent constructions of iron framework and austere engineering, and its easterly section was executed accordingly. The western stretch of the viaduct route and its railway stations, however, were built in a considerably more stately design. In accordance with a planning change in 1899, the line beginning at Nollendorfplatz station was constructed as an underground railway. Alfred Grenander developed design principles for underground stations of the standard railway which remained obligatory for Berlin's U-Bahn constructions for many decades. In addition to station types (Warschauerstrasse, Görlitzer Bahnhof and Prinzenstrasse), the present standard railway is characterized to a great extent by Bruno Möhring's "artistically detailed" overhead railway stations at Bülowstrasse, Kottbusser Tor and Hallesches Tor, the latter of which were later reconstructed and renovated by Alfred Grenander. The Oberbaumbrücke, constructed from1894-96 according to plans by Otto Stahn, serves as the Spree crossing to the terminal station at Warschauer Strasse. Reconstructed from 1992-95, it symbolizes the integration of the once divided city. |
Office Location Berlin - Forecast 2000-2010 Office space demand
A gross assimilation of 4.5 million m² of office space is expected. The number of office workers is also expected to increase by approximately 90,000 by 2010. The demand for office space will focus on inner city locations (57%) - primarily in Berlin-Mitte and The "City-West". Global Players and New Economy sectors will gain importance. http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.d...aechen_470.jpg http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.d..._leg_470_2.jpg Market demand by 2010 is estimated as follows: Global Player: 0,6 Mio. qm Business Community: 1,7 Mio. qm New Economy: 0,6 Mio. qm Local Dinosaurs: 0,6 Mio. qm City Services: 1,0 Mio. qm Global Players prefer central locations, e.g. Alexanderplatz and Ostbahnhof and, in the long term, sites in the surroundings of the new international airport in Berlin-Brandenburg. Global Players who require large office space favour "landmark buildings". Companies in this category are especially interesting for high-rise projects. However, at least half of the interested Global Players look for medium-sized properties up to 7,000 m2. In these cases, business sites with a favourable infrastructure and low rents are just as important as central locations. Such locations are usually preferred by companies active in sales, services, and R & D. Companies in the New Economy category prefer locations and buildings that are laid out in small sections. They also like buildings with a more traditional character with a potential for development, and a specific image. However, as these companies grow and mature efficiently structured properties (over 1,000 m2) will gain importance over existing smaller buildings located in mixed-use urban areas. In the Business Community sector the demand either focuses on prestigious downtown locations, or on inexpensive (periphery) business locations in commercial parks, new development areas, or along radial roads. Companies in the City Service category are widely spread across the city. Attorneys and insurance companies prefer central locations. Health insurance companies and medical centres require locations in the district centres. Similar to New Economy companies, City Services will be a driving force behind services available in the mixed-use urban districts. These activities will continue to cluster in the centres of Berlin's city districts. Local Dinosaurs favour reasonably priced locations for large scale operational units. Since many of these organisations provide public services, political influence on location choice will be likely. |
New hotel right next to the Zoologischer Garten train station , "Motel One"
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