And here are quite actual pictures from the project "Königsstadt-Carree".

Height: approx. 70m
Storeys: 21

Rendering:

http://www.bild-upload.net/bild.php/13010,mollmaxsuedwestCC90A.gif


Pictures:

http://www.n00btown.de/freak/space/Foto-0120.jpg

http://www.n00btown.de/freak/space/Foto-0124.jpg

Are there any official plans for a redeveloped Alexanderplatz yet?

There always seemed to be talk of it a few years ago, but I haven't heard much since.

^ Did you check out my post here (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=34281030&postcount=249)? ;)

Does anyone know when the Brandenburger Tor U-Bahn station at Pariser Platz will open??

What's happening these days in Berlin development-wise?? Nothing? It seems that development in every major city in the world is covered on this site except for Berlin (well, except for some great but very infrequent updates from Beta once every few months). Is Berlin really that dead? Where's the interest in this major world capital here on SSC??

No, Berlin is not dead....:lol:
But you´re right, it seems people are not interested or just to lazy to post something.

Anyway here´s a small update...

Hackesches Quartier


http://www.s1projekt.de/galerie/10--Hackesches_Quartier_Berlin.jpg

Pics by: Spreesurfer
http://www.abload.de/img/p71100107a75.jpg

http://www.abload.de/img/p7110004n99r.jpg

http://www.bild-upload.net/bild.php/19777,hackCEBYS.jpg

More to come soon...:)

U55

Webcam: station: Brandenburger Tor
http://www.bvg.de/u55/webcam/u55_320x240.jpg

Completion is scheduled for August 2009

The track with 3 stations:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Berlin_u55.jpg/570px-Berlin_u55.jpg

Pictures:

http://www.morgenpost.de/multimedia/archive/00127/geisterbahnhof_bund_127336b.jpg

http://data5.blog.de/media/609/3622609_c2f1a16834_m.jpg

http://img452.imageshack.us/img452/4076/u55hbf20070109018jpgfo2.jpg

U5

Stations: Alexanderplatz - Berliner Rathaus - Museumsinsel - Unter den Linden - Brandenburger Tor

Construction: 2010 - 2017

Track:
http://www.baustellen-doku.info/projekte/erweiterung_u5_rotes-rathaus_unter-den-linden_brandenburger-tor_berlin/erweiterung_u5_lageplan.jpg

:banana: Thanks Beta! You're the best. What would we do without you? :okay::cheers1:

Oh you´re welcome:D:cheers1:

Ok, here´s some more stuff...

Königstadt-Carree

height: about 70m
location: not far from Alexanderplatz

pics by: Spreesurfer
http://www.abload.de/img/p7140042bkdd.jpg

http://www.abload.de/img/p6240010v9fw.jpg

"Zoofenster" is under construction(the yellow building in the picture):banana:

...not sure about the blue one(Atlas-Tower), but the building in front of the towers will be demolished!:banana:

http://www.abload.de/img/schimmelpfenghochhuserfq10.jpg

Great.

^^ And some renderings of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (Zoofenster) project:

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/7504/zoofensterwaldorfastori.jpg

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/7425/2525231xiofcmsimage2009.jpg
- by tagesspiegel.de -

Older rendering
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/4986/zooneuwz0.jpg
- by welt.de -


And todays webcam view (http://www.mietkamera.de/webcam/http-api/slideshow.php?subdir=alpine/zoofenster/0003C50258AD/01&swffile=slideshow640x480.swf&width=640&height=480&bg_color=FFFFFF&calendar=&date=20090724) of the towers progress:
http://i27.tinypic.com/292bi8j.jpg
- by mietkamera.de -

And to prove again that Berlin definetely isn't dead ;)


New renderings of the Hackesches Quartier, right across famous Hackescher Markt (already introduced here (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=39830648&postcount=256) by beta)
- from the German forum (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=790496&page=5):

http://www.abload.de/img/hackeschesquartierberlbefd.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=hackeschesquartierberlbefd.jpg)

http://www.abload.de/img/hackeschesquartierberlacrg.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=hackeschesquartierberlacrg.jpg)

http://www.abload.de/img/hackeschesquartierberl0izr.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=hackeschesquartierberl0izr.jpg)

Thanks everyone for the many updates the last days/weeks. It's so cool to see the new U-Bahn stations Hauptbahnhof and Brandenburger Tor.

And I'm really glad that construction on the Hachesches Quartier has progressed so much since he last time I was in Berlin (December 2008). I'm living in London at the moment, but my heart is still in Berlin.:)

What's happening these days in Berlin development-wise?? Nothing? It seems that development in every major city in the world is covered on this site except for Berlin (well, except for some great but very infrequent updates from Beta once every few months). Is Berlin really that dead? Where's the interest in this major world capital here on SSC??

Actually there is A LOT being built in Berlin right now, more than in other European capitals, since they are still filling the gaps the war has left.
And there are of course the new government buildings and infrastructur in general.
But Germans are here on SSC just in small numbers and most of them seem to be just for fun here. *thinking of the German Skybar "Wunderbar"* :ohno:

Thanks so much @ the guys keeping this thread alive! :)

Germans ... are for fun here
So you aren't? Searching for boredom? ;)


Anyway, you're welcome to help updating this thread :)

So you aren't? Searching for boredom? ;)


Anyway, you're welcome to help updating this thread :)

As I said, I was thinking of the über awesome German Wunderbar and then comparing how many of the clowns there are actually participating in the rest of Skyscrapercity in a productive way. :lol:

Thanks for your welcome to help updating this thread. I wonder if I'm allowed to take pics out of the German architecture forums without asking permission first. Asking everyone and waiting for an answer would be so bothersome... ;)

@ Darryl you might use:
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/
to read the updates on those German architecture forums:
http://www.deutsches-architektur-forum.de/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=165
http://www.architekturforum.net/viewforum.php?f=13&sid=42cbdb43f5e273b233195acd8248bffe
And the posted pics speak for themselves. ;)

Actually there is A LOT being built in Berlin right now, more than in other European capitals, since they are still filling the gaps the war has left.

Indeed, and it's quite amazing to see how many things are being built right now. Gaps are filled at a very quick pace. You don't go somewhere for 6 months and when you pass by you find it transformed. I just hope they would renovate the old communist buildings in Alex...

Almost completed Upper East Side complex in Berlin-Mitte,
(Unter den Linden, the main street in the historical center)

It replaces ugly commie buildings

http://www.abload.de/img/picture0267o1o.jpg
(shot by user Paderwan, end of July)

^^

Thanks erbse! I had been wondering about that project.

My brother is moving from New York City to Berlin today!! :banana:
I'm so excited for him. I can now live vicariously through him (...and visit of course!). :)

A new project near Alexanderplatz (Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 32):

Office & hotel with 9 floors and 336 rooms, covering 27'500 m², 80 million EUR investment, finished in mid 2010.


R2 Hotel (Nalbach & Nalbach architects)

http://www.tlg.de/typo3temp/pics/ec68639f2e.jpg

http://www.tlg.de/uploads/pics/ramada_hoch_01.jpg
Source: www.tlg.de


High resolution renderings: http://www.tlg.de/uploads/media/KLS_32_Fassade.jpg

Nice building :) Very simple. I like it.

Nice new limestone bridge for Berlin-Mitte, just next to the future rebuilt Berlin Castle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadtschloss,_Berlin) (Stadtschloss).
They demolished an ugly post-war bridge for this.


The new Rathausbrücke ("city hall bridge", pre-war name "Kurfürstenbrücke"):

http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/7837/rathausbruecke.jpg
Source (http://www.stadtbild-berlin.de/Schloss/kurfuerstenbruecke.htm)


More info about the bridge and its historical predecessor (which could have been reconstructed, a corporation fighted for this) - in German:

http://www.stadtbild-berlin.de/Schloss/kurfuerstenbruecke.htm

http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/2009/0127/berlin/0038/index.html

Nice new limestone bridge for Berlin-Mitte, just next to the future rebuilt Berlin Castle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadtschloss,_Berlin) (Stadtschloss).
They demolished an ugly post-war bridge for this.


The new Rathausbrücke ("city hall bridge", pre-war name "Kurfürstenbrücke"):

http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/7837/rathausbruecke.jpg
Source (http://www.stadtbild-berlin.de/Schloss/kurfuerstenbruecke.htm)


More info about the bridge and its historical predecessor (which could have been reconstructed, a corporation fighted for this) - in German:

http://www.stadtbild-berlin.de/Schloss/kurfuerstenbruecke.htm

http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/2009/0127/berlin/0038/index.html

nothing special

This is a very big undertaking to do a website like that. I'm just saying that if you want to make something like this, work your way up. Start with simple websites and add functionality afterwards. This is not a 5 hour website.

nothing special
Better than something too fancy for this place, I think. It got some classic architecture appeal to it as well.

Interesting project by David Chipperfield, at famous Kurfürstendamm (KuDamm) in Berlin West:


KuDamm-Karree

Location

http://www.dasneuekudammkarree.de/fileadmin/upload/Slideshow/Standort/standort_01.jpg

http://www.dasneuekudammkarree.de/fileadmin/upload/Slideshow/Standort/standort_02.jpg
Quelle:www.dasneuekudammkarree.de


Renderings (there are new ones about to come in December):
http://www.das-neue-kudammkarree.de/uploads/pics/Kudamm-Karree.jpg

http://www.dasneuekudammkarree.de/typo3temp/pics/0ccde9be7f.jpg

http://www.dasneuekudammkarree.de/typo3temp/pics/9446597066.jpg

http://www.dasneuekudammkarree.de/typo3temp/pics/cc136046e4.jpg

http://www.dasneuekudammkarree.de/typo3temp/pics/ef81218e80.jpg

Boulevardtheater:

http://www.das-neue-kudammkarree.de/typo3temp/pics/269ba33d43.jpg

http://www.das-neue-kudammkarree.de/typo3temp/pics/9c1e9c73a8.jpg

http://www.das-neue-kudammkarree.de/typo3temp/pics/b1200bc02f.jpg

http://www.das-neue-kudammkarree.de/typo3temp/pics/e0ba3c98d5.jpg

http://www.das-neue-kudammkarree.de/typo3temp/pics/7f71e36932.jpg

http://www.das-neue-kudammkarree.de/typo3temp/pics/2ec2590ef0.jpg

Information: http://www.das-neue-kudammkarree.de

Quite some time since the last post i see, does anyone have any construction updates to revive this thread with?

^^
You beat me to it. :) Usually I have to revive this thread every 3 months or so with a similar question.

Can anyone tell us English speakers more about the plans for Tauentzien Str. between the Memorial Church and Wittenbergplatz? I read an article in German about it, but my German sucks and I only get the overall points of what I read and miss a lot of details. The article said something about they will renovate with landscaping and stuff to make it more accessible for strolling (?).

Will that cool sculpture still stay there?

When will the work begin?

What are more details you may have regarding this project?

Thanks!

Bundesnachrichtendienst Neubau:

http://mhberlin.com/wp-content/Lageplan2.jpg

http://mhberlin.com/wp-content/K+K1-305KB.jpg
source: mhBerlin

http://www.bbr.bund.de/DE/BautenBundesBerlin/BautenSicherheit/Bundesnachrichtendienst/Bilder/Computersimulation__neu,property=default.jpg
source:bbr

progress webcam:
http://www.bnd.de/cln_117/nn_1365548/DE/Struktur/Abteilung__UM/Neubau/Neubau__node.html?__nnn=true

^^ That's a big one :drool:

^^ What is that building for? I guess with 'Bundes' is the name is a Government building?

Wow, it's a building... about as run of the mill as one can get too.

^^ What is that building for? I guess with 'Bundes' is the name is a Government building?

Its the new 'Federal Intelligence Service' headquarters.

Doing this again in case people don't read the German forum:
Can anyone tell us English speakers more about the plans for Tauentzien Str. between the Memorial Church and Wittenbergplatz? I read an article in German about it

That's the article:
CITY WEST
Tauentzien wird zur Flanierpromenade ausgebaut
Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2010 19:07 - Von Brigitte Schmiemann

Berlins Einkaufsmeile Nummer eins, die Tauentzienstraße, wird vom angestaubten Flair der 80er-Jahre befreit. Eine veränderte Verkehrsführung und ein neu gestalteter Mittelstreifen sollen künftig Fußgänger zum Bummeln einladen. Die Kosten: rund 610.000 Euro. Einen Teil davon muss die BVG zahlen.

http://i46.tinypic.com/2rncxon.jpg
Foto: Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
Der neue Tauentzien: Vor allem der Mittelstreifen soll aufgewertet und für Fußgänger attraktiver werden
http://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article1254400/Tauentzien-wird-zur-Flanierpromenade-ausgebaut.html

They'll change the traffic routing and redesign the park stripe in the middle of the street.

Will that cool sculpture still stay there?
Of course it'll stay, it's a sculptural icon.


That's how it looks today:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Berlin_sculpture%2C_Gedachtniskirche.jpg/480px-Berlin_sculpture%2C_Gedachtniskirche.jpg
Source (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin_sculpture,_Gedachtniskirche.jpg)

They should also exchange the lamp posts in this area with the historical ones (famous Schupmann-Kandelaber) they have at Ku'Damm:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/KuDamm_Joachimstaler_Berlin_4.jpg/800px-KuDamm_Joachimstaler_Berlin_4.jpg
Source (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KuDamm_Joachimstaler_Berlin_4.jpg) - Kranzlereck, historical candelabra by Ludwig Schupmann[/QUOTE]

Great progress at BBI (http://www.berlin-airport.de/EN/index.html) (Berlin Brandenburg International Airport), now called Willy Brandt International:

http://i48.tinypic.com/2vuzsyu.jpg
Source (http://www.berlin-airport.de/EN/Presse/Mediathek/Bildarchiv/index.html) - more photos there


Click for more update shots:
http://www.berlin-airport.de/images/Presse/BBI/Terminal/BBI_Jan_2010-11.jpg

http://www.berlin-airport.de/images/Presse/BBI/Terminal/BBI_Jan_2010-13.jpg

http://www.berlin-airport.de/images/Presse/BBI/Terminal/BBI_Jan_2010-14.jpg

http://www.berlin-airport.de/images/Presse/BBI/Terminal/BBI_Jan_2010-04.jpg

http://www.berlin-airport.de/images/Presse/BBI/Terminal/BBI_Jan_2010-01.jpg

http://www.berlin-airport.de/DE/Presse/Mediathek/Bildarchiv/BBI/Terminal/BBI_Jan_2010-10.html

http://www.berlin-airport.de/images/Presse/BBI/Terminal/BBI_Jan_2010-12.jpg

Recently reconstructed Schinkelplatz (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schinkelplatz) (a square just across the Berlin Cathedral and future City Palace - it's dedicated to the great German classicist/historicist architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Friedrich_Schinkel)):

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/1593/10562152.jpg

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/7459/90364135.jpg

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/152/60288535.jpg

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/6905/57517586.jpg

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/5536/98174705.jpg

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/8672/49522402.jpg

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/5435/66219300.jpg
Source: http://bausituation-dresden.blogspot.com/

New rendering of Zoofenster / Waldorf=Astoria Hotel (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=53308661) at Berlin KuDamm:
http://i44.tinypic.com/apk7m1.jpg
Source (http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/planen/stadtplanerische_konzepte/leitbild_city_west/de/massnahmen/zoofenster/index.shtml)


Aerial view:
http://i43.tinypic.com/14wzgv8.jpg
Source (http://b-030.de/2009/01/23/waldorf-astoria-berlin/)


Current progress of the 118m hotel tower:
http://i40.tinypic.com/mlnqkw.jpg
Source (http://cams.mietkamera.de/webcam/baustelle/alpine/zoofenster/0003c50258ad/01/2/)


For more have a look at the Zoofenster thread (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=842004).

Nice picture, keep them coming! :)

Isn't there are a lot of things going on in Berlin? I visited the city some weeks ago, cranes were everywhere. Where are the updates? :?

Yeah i keep asking myself the same question, i last visited the city in february, and i could see construction sites pretty much everywhere i went.


But i guess most of those sites are low profile projects that arent really worth updating about like smaller residential buildings and such. Or maybe a duplicate thread about Berlin exists? that would explain why there is so little activity in this thread though i haven't been able to find one myself ( the search function in here is really crappy).

would still appreciate construction updates from people who actually live in the city instead of just discussing project plans. I've seen a lot of projects throught the thread that really haven't been followed up on...

^^ You guys are right: there is a lot of contruction going on in Berlin, but somehow our forumers from Berlin don't update as much as forumers from other cities/countries do. Even in the Berlin thread (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=819) (in German) there is only few update activity. Unfortunately. :ohno:

Too bad I'm living in the Netherlands at the moment, but as soon as I'm in Berlin again for a longer period, I'll do some updates.

You are right, theres actually a lot going on. Quite a few high profile projects too, like the new Berlin Brandenburg International Airport or the huuuge German Federal Intelligence Service headquarter, Museumisland, Zoofenster, Hackesche Quarter and soon Humboldtforum/City Palace, expansion of the Government Quarter, completion of Leipziger Platz and numerous smaller projects.
But Germans somehow don't tend to be that interested in their capital, or better said, don't seem to be interested to promote their capital.
Theres are some threads in the German section though:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=819

edit: GeneratorNL was faster. XD

Yeah i keep asking myself the same question, i last visited the city in february, and i could see construction sites pretty much everywhere i went.


But i guess most of those sites are low profile projects that arent really worth updating about like smaller residential buildings and such. Or maybe a duplicate thread about Berlin exists? that would explain why there is so little activity in this thread though i haven't been able to find one myself ( the search function in here is really crappy).

would still appreciate construction updates from people who actually live in the city instead of just discussing project plans. I've seen a lot of projects throught the thread that really haven't been followed up on...


To answer your question and others...

There already is a very competent german forum for architecture, so people are less inclined to post here in SSC. you are right, there are and have been hundreds of 'low profile' projects, many gaps in the inner city district have finally been closed in the last two decades.

Nice. :)

Nice. :)

^ Damn those spammers. :ohno:



Considering Berlin: There really is something going on in the German capital now.
We'll introduce some great projects on the next page of this thread. :)

Construction of new midrise building has started:


13/07/2010
Berlin: Vivico launches work on Total headquarters

Today, Vivico Real Estate will begin excavation work for construction of the first office high-rise in the Europacity project opposite the main train station. The 69 m tall “Tour Total,” with around 18,000 sqm of gross above-ground floor space, is to serve as the German headquarters for the French petroleum concern, Total. The contract for the structure's shell is to be awarded in October; completion of the sustainable design is scheduled for the third quarter of 2012. A silver certificate from the German Sustainable Building Council is being targeted. According to previous announcements, the investment volume amounts to approximately €70mn. During the coming 15 years, six urban quarters with a total usable area of some 600,000 sqm are to be developed on the around 40 hectare Europacity area located between Invalidenstrasse and Perleberger Strasse. One third of the space is projected for up to 1,800 apartments.
https://www.thomas-daily.de/news/newsinternational/id/05151101757721714.0;jsessionid=aaalPHB9dNJ_ndwxxUuNs;jsessionid=aaalPHB9dNJ_ndwxxUuNs;jsessionid=aaalPHB9dNJ_ndwxxUuNs

http://www.morgenpost.de/multimedia/archive/00520/towergitter_BM_Berl_520115b.jpg
source: MOPO

http://www.bz-berlin.de/multimedia/archive/00153/total_153490k.jpg
source: BZ Berlin

construction webcam:
http://www.vivico.de/immobilien/objekte/quartier-europacity-berlin/total-tower/webcams.html

Great news for the Alexanderplatz area (see German thread (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=827582))!

New projects planned at Alex (red), map:
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/ber-alex-teil-masterplan/1874446.jpg?format=format11
Source: tagesspiegel.de


Fresh renderings of planned highrises, fitting the traditional early modern style of Alexanderplatz buildings:
(the boxy one in the middle is already existing, that's the Park Inn Hotel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Inn_Berlin) built in GDR times)
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/27/838327/3266323835626463.jpg

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/27/838327/3333353733633039.jpg

Shopping / Hotel complex, glass roof between existing Kaufhof building (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeria_Kaufhof_Berlin-Alexanderplatz) and new buildings
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/degewo-04/1871482.jpg?format=format10

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/27/838327/3037666639393631.jpg

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/27/838327/3435393437356338.jpg

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/27/838327/6234393666616530.jpg

http://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/degewo-07/1871488.jpg?format=format14

http://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/degewo-09/1871492.jpg?format=format14

Source: HH Vision / tagesspiegel.de (http://www.tagesspiegel.de/mediacenter/fotostrecken/berlin/neue-entwuerfe-fuer-den-alexanderplatz/1871474.html?p1871474=6#image) - Design by Till Sattler (Cologne architect)



Another traditional modernist highrise just around the corner (at Stralauer Strasse), construction starts soon, ought to be finished by the end of 2012 (see German thread (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=950248)):

http://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/090903-alexanderstr3/1871562.jpg?format=format15
Source: tagesspiegel.de (http://www.tagesspiegel.de/mediacenter/fotostrecken/berlin/neue-entwuerfe-fuer-den-alexanderplatz/1871474.html?p1871474=6#image) - Design by Kuehn Malvezzi architects

It's a hotel with 170 rooms and 13'000 sqm of shops.

edit

Wow Nice!
But whats going to happen with Park Inn Hotel?
Will it be renovated?

^ It was renovated for 20 million bucks just some years ago.
But I guess it could get such an illuminated fresh top, as you can see in the first rendering.

when are these projects going to be completed? be im going to be there by july of 2013

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Nice projects!

In that rendering, the Park Inn has an illuminated top. In order to match up with the other proposed buildings in Alexanderplatz, the top has to be over 25 metres high. But that would be too excessive, so the top should be 10 metres high, and two 25-metre spires added, and the total height of the new Park Inn would be 150m, just like all the other proposed skyscrapers in Alexanderplatz. And the Park Inn would get a brand new facade and reduced podium.

Some pictures of the construction at ostkreuz

09/11
http://www.baustellen-doku.info/projekte/umbau_ostkreuz_berlin/20100911/baustellen-bild-5.html
http://www.baustellen-doku.info/projekte/umbau_ostkreuz_berlin/20100911/baustellen-bild-10.html
http://www.baustellen-doku.info/projekte/umbau_ostkreuz_berlin/20100911/baustellen-bild-16.html

From the BBI Airport thread (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=807892&highlight=bbi) - let's have a look at its progress in December for a change :cool:

Some impressions: The airport under construction in winter coat

http://www.berlin-airport.de/images/Presse/BBI/Terminal/BBI_201012_1_alternative.jpg

http://www.berlin-airport.de/images/Presse/BBI/Terminal/BBI_201012_2_alternative.jpg

http://www.berlin-airport.de/images/Presse/BBI/Terminal/BBI_201012_3_alternative.jpg

http://www.berlin-airport.de/images/Presse/BBI/Terminal/BBI_201012_4_alternative.jpg

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Marion Schmieding & Alexander Obst: 21.12.2010
© Berliner Flughäfen (Berlin Airports)

Fantastisch! :banana:

der Tower sieht deutlich besser aus als ich befürchtete...

Schicker flughafen, jetzt muss er nur noch eröffnen ;)

Looks majestic! Especially the tower....Would be nice to have such a lighting tower at Oslo airport

No, but its is still cold

when is the planned completition?

Wow! Berlin is going to be AMAZING! haha es tut Mir Leid von mein deutsch. Ich bin aus Amerika.:D

I just wonder if you can see the Fernsehturm from Schönefeld. I saw it once quite clearly going down a Rudower Chaussee (S-Bahn Adlershof).

The watchtower looks amazing. The terminal is a mix of the New National Gallery and Paul-Löbe-Haus ( at least the front of it ) :D And I really contemplate the high level of the craft. This concrete looks awesome:

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So good to see Berlin with so much going on and some taller buildings as well. :applause:

Berlin on the Road to Becoming a Start-Up Mecca

Berlin is home to an ever increasing number of innovative new technology start-up companies -- to the point that even Silicon Valley venture capitalists are taking notice. With a new focus on the country, many companies are beginning to innovate rather than simply clone successful American ideas.

Under-employed hipsters, exiled artists and wannabe punks -- Berlin's image has never been that of a capital of entrepreneurial innovation.

That, though, may soon change. While tourists still flock to the city to dance in Berlin's renowned nightclubs, computer programmers are also coming to the city in droves -- to work in the rapidly increasing number of high-tech startups that are now calling the German capital home. "Berlin is a great place for startups," Matt Cohler, co-founder of professional networking site LinkedIn and a former Facebook executive, told SPIEGEL ONLINE.

Now a partner at the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital, Cohler says the city is one of the best in Europe when it comes to the environment necessary to nurture a thriving start-up scene. "People from all over Europe, from the east and the west, converge on the city, and many of them have strong technical backgrounds," he said. "Plus, the city has a nice atmosphere and it's cheap."

It is a sentiment echoed by many of those who have recently set up shop in Berlin. A smiling Ijad Madisch greets visitors to his attic headquarters in the heart of Berlin. The office's slanted ceilings, skylights and exposed beams give the place a cozy feeling of exclusivity. And then there is the vat of steaming chicken masala in the kitchen, catered and ready to satiate dozens of hungry 20-something developers when they are ready for lunch.

Madisch is the 30-year-old founder of ResearchGate, a new social networking site designed specifically to help researchers share the fruits of their labor and help each other with tips and shortcuts. He is full of praise for a city that many are now touting as a kind of European Silicon Allee.

'Contacting Us All the Time'

"The question is always, will you get the people you are looking for," says Madisch. "And Berlin has people coming to it from all over the world. For young people, it is simply a cool place to live -- and we have people contacting us all the time."

The list of new tech start-ups in the German capital is long -- and sounds more like a name-dropping of exotic African valleys than a potential anchor of Berlin's future economy: Ondango, Wooga, Twago, Neonga, Veodu. The list goes on. Not all, of course, will end up making the leap to Internet stardom, but Cohler says that, whereas German start-ups in the past tended to be more focused on the German market, "we are now starting to see companies in Berlin that are addressing a global market."

A Music Industry Juggernaut

One of those companies is SoundCloud. Originally from Sweden, but headquartered in Berlin since 2007, the site is an online audio platform which allows musicians to share ideas, tracks and sound snippets instantly. It also includes a publishing tool for distribution and has just launched a Q&A feature to allow users to chat with the thousands of artists who use the site. In the last several months alone, the site has gone from 2 million users to 3.5 million users -- making it a juggernaut in the music industry.

The growth rate of ResearchGate isn't far behind. The site has 800,000 users, mostly young Ph.D.s and post-docs, and allows for more intense academic collaboration than has often been possible. "Science is not very efficient," Madisch, a medical doctor who specialized in virology at Harvard Medical School, says in explaining the idea behind the site. "You do something, research a question you are interested in, and if your research doesn't work out, you don't publish it. I want to see that negative data published. This is a place to talk about stuff that doesn't work."

Armed with venture capital from Benchmark, Madisch -- who is originally from Hanover -- had the choice of moving his company to Silicon Valley or Berlin. He chose the latter for the ease of finding highly qualified employees. In California, he says, it would have been difficult to compete for talent with giants like Apple, Google and Facebook.

Lately, though, hiring promising young developers has become tougher in Berlin as well. Almost every Internet start-up based in the city has a long list of positions they are trying to fill, and programmers are able to pick and choose. And the market has only become more competitive in recent months.

Copycats and Venture Capitalists

"The scene in Berlin has been booming for three years," says Alexander Hüsing, founder and editor-in-chief of the online publication deutsche-startups.de. "But since last autumn especially, more and more companies are coming to the city. Everyone is looking for people. There is a real shortage of developers at the moment."

Such jobs, of course, are badly needed in the capital. For years, Berlin's economy has lagged well behind the rest of the country and unemployment has remained stubbornly high. Even now, though the unemployment rate has been trending downward for years, it remains above 13 percent.

Despite the recent boom, it seems doubtful that tech start-ups will be able to make much of a dent in that number. While the city government calls Berlin "an open laboratory for new developments," it has shied away from offering financial incentives to start-ups. And although there are venture capitalists in Germany, most seed money for tech start-ups is still centered in the US.

"There is plenty of money in Germany, but it isn't invested as quickly," Hüsing says. "Germans are simply more reserved and focus more on the risks." Plus, he says, venture capitalists -- and entrepreneurs -- here have in the past shown more interest in establishing German copycats of successful US firms than creating something brand new. Soon after Twitter launched, for example, "there were about a dozen clones in Germany," he says. One of the most successful first-generation German start-ups, studiVZ, is little more than a Facebook clone.

With the recent newcomers, however, that appears to be changing. And, as Cohler says, start-up scenes often grow organically. "A good start-up ecosystem is all about people and networks," he says. "If a scene is really going to be robust, it kind of has to be the main thing going on in that place. In Berlin, it is possible that main thing will turn out to be start-ups."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,758097,00.html

Overseas special: Top 10 places to buy abroad

To buy or not to buy – that is the question for property investors during a slump. But with signs of a global recovery under way, now could be the time to act. Graham Norwood suggests the best places to buy

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6 Berlin

Germans rent more than they buy, so where better for investors than a city many regard as the new capital of Europe? Eastern central Berlin is now more chic – and pricier – than the West. In the central area, expect to pay £300,000 for a well-located apartment.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/overseasproperty/8460541/Overseas-special-Top-10-places-to-buy-abroad.html

TAG Purchases Apartment Complex in Berlin’s Marzahn District

TAG Immobilien AG (TEG), a German company that invests in homes and commercial buildings, purchased a complex with 612 apartments in Berlin’s Marzahn district.

TAG will buy the homes with money raised from a share sale, the company said in a statement that didn’t include the price. The seller is a company controlled by Peakside Capital, a private equity firm, according to a separate statement.

The property has about 43,600 square meters (469,000 square feet) of space and is almost fully occupied, Hamburg-based TAG said. Marzahn is in eastern Berlin.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-27/tag-purchases-apartment-complex-in-berlin-s-marzahn-district.html

More Pix of Berliner projects please.

Even if its only smaller projects. Im, of course, very interested in them.

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Interesting video, thanks for that.

Some decent stuff posted on SSP:

Prado, Sophie-Charlotte, Bauhaus-Living has already started construction.


Linien str/Rucker str 217/216

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http://livingbauhaus.com/Linienstrasse


Another new build on Linien str summer 2010 by Khaz!


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Cool, I love Berliner architecture!

what in particular? :)

The modern (and controversal) Berliner Klassik?

I will post it here but it also applies to Frankfurt and other German cities

German Breweries Have a Second Round

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Sternecker Brewery will be renovated into condos. Here, a rendering of the project, to be completed in 2013.

Germany is famous for its beer, but its breweries are becoming an attraction to real-estate investors in their own right.

As breweries consolidate and older properties become obsolete, investors are snapping them up to convert to other uses, primarily residential. About 20 breweries are being redeveloped in Hamburg, Frankfurt, Berlin and other cities, with many more projects already completed.

Developers are being drawn to these properties by the attractive tax breaks in Germany for redeveloping historic buildings as well as the locations of the industrial brewery complexes. Built in the 19th and early 20th centuries near water for ice and cooling, many of them are in the middle of well-developed areas of cities.

At the same time, these projects reflect the growing strength of the German housing market, which has sparked new development throughout the country. In 2009, the latest figures available, building permits were already beginning to rise, going to 177,570 from 174,691 in 2008.

That was still below the 247,793 permits issued in 2006, but market experts say development has steadily risen since 2009, as financing has become more widely available. Developers can borrow as much as 70% to 75% of a project's cost, according to Julius Stinauer, a senior consultant in residential research for Jones Lang LaSalle.

Sales of apartment buildings to investors also are strong. Transaction volume hit €3 billion ($4.21 billion) last year, and this year investors are on track to double that amount, according to Jones Lang.

Currently, about 30% to 40% of residential projects under construction will be rented, while the rest will sell individual units as condominiums. The rental-apartment market in big cities is tight, with vacancy rates typically around 3%, or even lower in high-demand areas of the big cities.

One of the most successful past brewery redevelopments is the "Kulturbrauerei," or culture brewery, in Berlin, a multiuse project with 40 tenants, including retail, restaurants, clubs and a movie theater. The complex of red-brick buildings from the mid-1800s, reopened about 10 years ago, is one of the biggest night-life attractions in Berlin, with clubs open all night. In the winter, the owners set up a German Christmas market, drawing people for mulled wine and sausage. The developer, TLG Immobilien, also maintained the original look of the brewery, keeping old, painted signs marking the different buildings.

The latest crop of brewery developments also are mixed use, but with a more residential focus. In Nuremberg, a project at the Tucher brewery will leave the water tower as a centerpiece, but the developer, KIB Group, will tear down most of the old buildings. It will build 600 to 700 residential units in the forms of condominiums, lofts and town houses, along with a day care and retail and restaurant space.

Residential units will be both for sale and for rent. One of the historical buildings that KIB will save will be converted into offices, apartments and a restaurant with a beer garden, says Frank Tzatik, a manager with the firm.

In a trendy part of Frankfurt called Sachsenhausen, developers are working on a plan to build about 700 residential units, offices and a day-care center on an old brewery site, along with redeveloping the skyline-dominating Henninger tower, which used to hold grain during the brewing process. The developer, Actris AG, declined to elaborate on the project.

In Berlin, there are eight brewery-conversion projects underway, according to Savills research, a reflection of huge demand for renovated rental apartments in the trendy eastern and more industrial parts of the city. While rents in Berlin are still the lowest of major German cities, they increased from an average of 78 U.S. cents a square foot at the beginning of 2008 to 94 cents a square foot at the end of last year, according to Jones Lang.

Two of the Berlin projects are by GrundStein, a developer specializing in renovating historical properties. The first, the Sternecker brewery built in 1885, will have 46 condos for sale, all located on Berlin's Weissen lake, with easy access to the beach and docks. Units cost from $352.40 to $430.71 a square foot.

The second project is similar, with 66 units ranging in size from 538 square feet to 1,615 square feet. The residential condo units will be in four different buildings built as part of the Schultheiss brewery in 1857. Units will cost between $377.20 and $469.87 a square foot.

GrundStein is seeing interest from both individual buyers looking for a place to live and investors hoping to buy a few units to rent out. Both sets of investors are attracted to the property in part because of the tax breaks associated with a historically protected building, says Claudia Germandi, a spokesman for GrundStein.

"These breweries, they're really old, they don't look that great right now," says Ms. Germandi. But, once renovated, the living spaces are very desirable—tall ceilings, loft-like floor plans and wooden details. She says those types of apartments get snapped up quickly.

"It's difficult to find good apartments" in Berlin, she adds. "The market is tight."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303654804576341621613004988.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Berlin has some of the best lowrise and medium-rise architecture I've seen. Its modern buildings are sleek, sophisticated and elegant.

what in particular? :)

The modern (and controversal) Berliner Klassik?

If that's the 'retro' architecture that's being built all over the city, yes I do :)

Берлин fück ja!

Blick ins Terminal:

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Südpier
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Hauptpier Im Hintergrund sieht man deutlich, wie die Fluggastbrücke für den A380 herausragt.
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Fluggastbrücke A380
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Terminal Food Court
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The new Berlin Airport is quite impressive and I really like the timeless design. It will be a reference for future airport designs for sure. :cool:

Some pics from the 1st of August taken by me:

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Some new pics of this 118m highrise in West-Berlin (all pics taken by me on the 2nd of August):

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a lot of things going on in Berlin.
Keep up the good work!

I love Berlin. Great city, and I have great memories of being there, even after catching the worst flu while there :lol:

The Bauhaus style really makes Berlin special, with its own signiture design element. The other modern design forms going up look like they could be anywhere, but mixed in with the signiture style, it comes together well.

Startups set sights on Berlin as technology hub

http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20110805&t=2&i=473384601&w=460&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=2011-08-05T143220Z_01_BTRE77414E100_RTROPTP_0_GERMANY

(Reuters Life!) - Drawn by creative talent and a young, international workforce, entrepreneurs are increasingly choosing Berlin as a launching pad for internet start-ups, companies and industry observers say.

While none of Germany's top 30 companies are based in the city, its low costs and highly qualified labor pool have laid the groundwork for what many hope could develop into Europe's technology hub.

"Berlin is currently the hottest city in the European startup scene," Matthias Schrader, chief executive of SinnerSchrader one of Europe's biggest digital media agencies and chairman of the annual "Next" conference, told Reuters.

"Berlin has the perfect mix of creative potential, technical talent, low living costs and cosmopolitan flair -- a combination that exists nowhere else," he added.

A government report in June showed that Berlin is Germany's top location for innovative start-ups in the information and communication technology (ICT) field, beating the much wealthier cities Munich, Stuttgart and Hamburg.

One such company, Soundcloud, an online music sharing platform with millions of users including musicians Bjork, Foo Fighters and 50 Cent -- was founded by two Swedes drawn to the German capital.

Co-founder Alexander Ljung said the company, which opened in 2007, has seen its user numbers grow to 5 million users, and has no problems attracting qualified staff.

Mike Butcher, editor of trade publication TechCrunch Europe, said this is not surprising as Berlin is affordable and has a multilingual workforce that speaks English -- an extra incentive for investors.

"Start-ups which are getting visibility tend to have more of an international footprint and therefore attract the interest of the Silicon Valley venture capital community," he added.

U.S. actor Ashton Kutcher and pop singer Madonna's manager Guy Oseary turned heads in the tech industry when they invested an undisclosed amount in Soundcloud this summer.

Other venture capitalists known for involvement include Web heavyweights like Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and Accel who have invested in Research Gate, a German idea exchange platform for scientists which also chose Berlin.

"Benchmark actually told us to go either to Berlin or San Francisco," Ijad Madisch, ResearchGates' founder who has just recently celebrated hitting 1 million users. Facing heavyweight competition in San Francisco, he said the choice was easy.

"Berlin has got lots of developers and overall costs are lower here," he said. "Thanks to the city's international crowd, we can find suitable people who speak multiple languages."

Along with the other international startups like Soundcloud and Wooga, Europe's largest developer of online social games, Madisch believes that Berlin has reached a critical mass that will help draw in more companies, German and international.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/05/us-germany-startups-idUSTRE7741MS20110805

My wife and I spent 4 days in Berlin (toooo shooort) during our Bohemian tour in August. We were stunned how beautiful the city of Berlin is. It sure is catching up now with the rest of European cities in terms of develoment since the reunification. The development of Potsdamer Platz is a prime example. Specially the Sonny Center, with its unique tent-like roof, is literally a highlight at flourishing Platz. The Filmhaus Museum, offices and apartments are all built with glass and steel structure that embodies lightness, dynamism and unstoppable energy. And in the middle of it all is the Marlene Dietrich square, which is equally stunningly welcoming to everyone. Another structure in today's Berlin modernity is the New Haupbonhoff along the Spree River. The outside glass construction gives a transparent impression.

I just hope that all the modern building would be cohesively build with the rest of all iconic and old buildings in the city. Would be great if there is a 3-4 podium that would replicate/emulate the existing structures in the city as an anchor of a hirise building.

Kronprinzengärten
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http://www.kronprinzengaerten.de/#/de i like the video

Total Tower 70m
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Mercedes-Benz Vertrieb Deutschland 50m
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Kronprinzengärten looks really nice. Wow.

Kronprinzengärten :drool:

What's the zone of the project?, it's really beautiful.

PS. I'm loving the simplicity of the Total Tower, LOVE the Berlin modernist and contemporary architecture.

^^
Kronprinzengärten is located right in the (eastern) city centre, very close to Unter den Linden. :)

Werden die jetzt auch mal endlich gebaut? Man wollte doch schon vor Jahren mit der Falkoniergasse anfangen.

Since the Deutschlandhalle is slated for demolition soon and the future of the International Congress Centre is uncertain because of its asbestos contamination, is it time that the Messe Berlin exhibition complex received a reboot or should an all-new exhibiiton complex be built for Berlin replacing the existing complex?

Berlin is a great city!

I saw a tall building being constructed near Zoo station,this summer.
It has very good location.
I hope it is hotel,

I saw a tall building being constructed near Zoo station,this summer.
It has very good location.
I hope it is hotel,

that´s the "zoofenster" highrise...and yes it will be a waldorf-astoria hotel in 2012

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btw. "deutschlandhalle" will be demolished an replaced, ICC will be freed of asbestos and refurbished.

new "deutschlandhalle":
http://www.bauwelt.de/sixcms/media.php/797/thumbnails/BW_2011_21_wett_2_k.jpg.393057.jpg

Palais Behrens...nice video...but hell...the bus at the beginning of the video makes some advertising for berlins biggest brothel "artemis"...lol....very exclusive!!
http://www.palais-behrens.de/business.html

Thank you for the information.
When i visit Berlin next time, i want to stay there.

Cool, I love Berliner architecture!

I love it too!

Residential construction project "La Vie", Berlin Prenzlauer Berg

In the middle of Berlin Prenzlauer Berg, south of Kollwitzplatz, north to Alexanderplatz, a new residential area called "La Vie" is set to be developed on the plot of land located on Straßburger Straße and Saarbrücker Straße, with more than 350 rental apartments, with a total living space of 31,000 sqm. The area will also feature a children´s day nursery, an aparthotel and local shopping facilities. It is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2014.

Plannig permission has been granted for the first phase of construction, and construction work is set to commence in the first quarter of 2012.

Facts

land area 17,800 sqm
start of construction 2012
completion: four construction stages 2013 –2014
project volume 100 Mio. Euro
total living space 31,000 sqm
gross floor area 49,000 sqm
5-7 floors
362 rental apartments
282 underground parking spaces
children´s day nursery, local shopping facilities, boarding house

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/5910/saar03.jpg
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/7553/saar01.jpg
http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3741/saar02.jpg

Am Zirkus 1, construction started:

http://www.abload.de/img/pb030035znuff.jpg
http://www.baunetz.de/img/52215785_a93cebcd09.jpeg
http://www.baunetz.de/img/52215753_95026ee088.jpeg
http://www.baunetz.de/img/52215807_d8fef552a4.jpeg
http://www.christina-knorr.de/mediapool/80/800851/resources/17119600.jpg

previous design (unfortunately they changed it):

http://www.bpk-fire.de/images/referenzen/1091836326_gAm-Zirkus.jpg

Thanks for introducing those Xorcist! In the 2nd render - the actual streetviews of "La Vie" we get to see there?

Some projects and buildings giving evidence of Berlin's new classicism :cool:

Thank you for the collection Tiaren!
the new classicism of Berlin!

Some examples that are already built or are going to be build in the city:

Fellini Residences:
http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,1192599,00.jpg

Rosengärten:
https://cdn.iz.de/media/images/image-0005264_s930xauto_c0x452_1772x1228.jpg

Kronprinzengärten:
http://www.immobilien-up2date.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/berlin-luxuswohnungen-bild-bauwert.jpg

Hausvogteiplatz
http://www.patzschke-arch.de/projekte/buerobauten/hausvogteiplatz/bilder/bild00.jpg

Charlottenpalais:
http://www.muhs.de/data/media/475/13364MUHS.JPG

Kronenpalais:
http://www.avoe.org/berlin7600.jpg

I really dig those projects! :cheers:
All of course not reconstructions, but newly designed buildings.

^^ Very nice. A bit of classicism, but very high quality blocks. :)

Thanks for introducing those Xorcist! In the 2nd render - the actual streetviews of "La Vie" we get to see there?

that´s the area right now...pretty ugly.

http://binged.it/utYBR0

on the upper left side they just finished THIS project this autumn:
http://www.quartier-muehlenberg.de/r01/bilder/content/ansicht_strasse_start.jpg
http://h12.abload.de/img/p10107587uim.jpg

the same company developes the "La Vie" right now!

^

BEAUTIFUL!!! Build more like this! :) :cheers:

Loving the new Berlin classicism! Keep it up!

Akazienkiez Schöneberg, construction just started:

http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/4157/vo01.jpg
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/5240/vo03.jpg

Marthashof Prenzlauerberg almost finished:

http://plataformadesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Marthashof-residential-estat-021.jpg
http://www.abload.de/img/martha-1ask2.jpg

also Spreevilla Moabit:
http://www.abload.de/img/br_dortmunder048qbl.jpg
http://www.abload.de/img/br_dortmunder066o7x.jpg
http://www.abload.de/img/br_dortmunder05jo31.jpg
http://www.abload.de/img/spreevilla_westf04uuo2.jpg
http://www.abload.de/img/sv_westfalia011u8oh.jpg pics @ Backstein DAF

dont understand why so many projects, building's constructions when we know the bad situation of Berlin about the finance of the city and overall the unemployment's rate...who is gonna buy these expensive condos?

dont understand why so many projects, building's constructions when we know the bad situation of Berlin about the finance of the city and overall the unemployment's rate...who is gonna buy these expensive condos?

They are not überexpensive and land over which they are being built was relatively cheap.

Moreover, there is a demand for high-paid people in Berlin for new and modern flats.

Well the cities' debts are not the people's debts (at least not directly).

Why should debts of a city prevent an investor from building something, if there are customers to pay for it?

the main problem was the banking scandal in 2001. unfortunately i´ve found only something in german...but this was one major reason of the berlin financial crisis!

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_Bankenskandal (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_Bankenskandal) (in german)

Loving the new Berlin classicism! Keep it up!

!!!! :cheers:

Berlin moves up on Europe's more lauded capitals

The appeal of property in Germany's premier city is outstripping London and Paris

http://international.umd.edu/sparkplug/sites/studyabroad/images/BerlinBanner.jpg

London or Paris; Paris or London? Which of these two is Europe's greatest city?

The debate has gone on for decades, if not centuries, we never get the definitive answer and probably never will. But I'd like to throw in a leftfield choice, the German capital of Berlin.

Right at the centre of the continent – Berlin is 45 minutes from the Polish border, a few hours from Vienna and eight from Rome. It's the home of the German government, the most important in Europe, and is this year on course to attract more international visitors than Paris. It's a city which, two decades after the Berlin Wall fell and following a tumultuous and troubled century, feels more and more as if its time is finally coming. From the café culture, to the iconic buildings of previous Reichs, the seemingly endless art galleries and museums and the old west and eastern centres of the city, Berlin is abuzz with possibilities.

About 3.4 million people live in greater Berlin – less than half the population of London – but this is set to grow with a continued influx of government departments and business headquarters. All this spells potentially good news for property investors who have a little wider perspective than the classic home in the sun with golf course access.

"This is an entirely different sell for overseas property investors. With the home in the sun, the question is always what do you do on the third week. With a city like Berlin there is such variety for those looking to settle and real opportunities to tap into the burgeoning professional rental market," said Alex Upson, a director of Cluttons Resorts which is marketing several major developments in Berlin (www.cluttonsresorts.com).

And the rental market dominates in Berlin. Only 16 per cent of Berliners are owner-occupiers compared with nearly 45 per cent in Germany as a whole and close to 70 per cent in the UK. According to Germany's biggest estate agent, Engel & Volkers, property owners can expect an average rental yield of between 6 and 7 per cent, which means that within 15 years the original investment is paid for. This compares favourably with most overseas property investment which tends to be very seasonal and fashions in holidaymaking.

"Most hope that overseas property investment will financially wash its face. However, Berlin property tends to offer much more," Mr Upson added. This is attracting buyers, according to Nicolas Jeissing, the managing director of Engel & Volkers. He said: "We have seen a lot of interest from foreign buyers such as the Chinese, British and even of late the Greeks. We are currently building about 5,000 units a year and that is far too few for the numbers of professionals coming into Berlin. This is having an upward pressure on rents."

Prices in Berlin are a fraction of those in London and Paris even in the very best areas. Prices are calculated by the square metre which can make comparisons difficult, but with even a very high-end development in the centre the prices rarely rise above €7,000-8,000 (£6,000-£6,800) per square metre. This means that new-build large one-bed or small two-bed flats can be had in the range of €300,000-450,000. Second-hand flats in good but not prime areas of the capital can range from €2,000-4,000 per square metre. Good luck trying to get those sorts of prices in Kensington and Chelsea or just off the Champs-Elysées. However, prices are rising: Engels & Volkers reckons by 7 per cent this year and the central district of Mitte by an eye-catching 14 per cent.

It's in Mitte – on the banks of the river Spree and next to the famous Berliner Ensemble, once the stomping ground of playwright Bertolt Brecht – that Yoo Berlin is being built by Zurich-based Peach property group (www.peachestates.com). The 10-storey building will contain 87 apartments with one to four bedrooms. With interiors inspired by the French designer Philippe Starck, the development will be ready in spring 2013 and brings luxury at well below prime London prices.

"Flats will start at €388,000 and rise to €2.89m for cityscape views. Gardens will also be available for some flats and it's within a short walk of the buzzing cafés and bars as well as the Reichstag and governmental HQ," said Marcus Spielberger, the relationship manager at Peach Property Group.

Another development is the Charleston, located in the bustling Potsdamer Platz, just five minutes' walk from the Brandenburg Gate.

The Charleston was inspired by the great apartment buildings of New York (www.berlin-capital.com). The apartments have the facilities of a luxury hotel with 24-hour concierge, a swimming pool, whirlpool, sauna, solarium and fitness club. Apartment sizes range from 130sqm to 319sqm and cost from €599,000 to €2.19m.

There are downsides to buying in Berlin and Germany as a whole, of course. Buying fees are far higher than in the UK, so bank on between 10-12 per cent of the purchase price. Capital gains tax may be due on any profit and, what's more, tenants have protected rights in Berlin. This means that they can stay in situ as long as they want with increases capped by the city authorities – no more than 20 per cent over three years is the current cap.

However there are ways around such tight tenancy laws. "If you buy a good property in the centre, then there are real opportunities to rent to companies who then house employees. And because this is an agreement involving a business the tenancy laws don't apply," said Tim Bogen, a property specialist at Berlin Capital Investments.

There is also one elephant in the room, the fate of the euro. A general collapse of the single currency could be a disaster for the eurozone economy and anyone investing their sterling, at least in the short term. However, any moves to a eurozone with fewer members centred on Germany could lead to a rapid appreciation of the currency against sterling, leaving investors quids in.

Longer term, though, the key for investors is going to be whether or not Berlin as a city takes its place among the highest echelon of Europe's cities. The odds look better than ever.

http://www.independent.co.uk/money/mortgages/berlin-moves-up-on-europes-more-lauded-capitals-6275227.html

"Domus at Spittelmarkt" construction will start soon...

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/3405/spmd.jpg
http://ziegert-immobilien.de/projekte/seydelstr/index.php

^^
One can't have enough Patzschke in Berlin. :D Best architects in town!

very nice! I hope I will there in 3 years.

This is how all new construction in Germany should look like. Just beautifuk.

^^^^ Love it! Truly timeless design, very functional with big windows and terraces - More developments should look like this. Nice work Berlin!

I like low-rise projects in Paris and London better.. please don't get me wrong.. Berlin is a very great city :colgate:

just finished residential buildings in the district of Prenzlauer Berg:
(...)

Prenzlauer Bogen:
(...)

Top architecture in Berlin :applause:

revitalization of the old Boetzow Brewery side in Prenzlauer Berg. 23 000 squaremetres will be transformed into hotels, flats, stores, lofts, restaurants, offices and galleries. Otto Bock will invest more than 100 million euros into the project.

http://www.taao.de/images_projects/pic_boetzow_03.jpg
http://www.boetzowberlin.de/

wow!! seems amaizing!!

Seriously? Wow...HUGE project!!!

Über-awesome! Go Berlin! :applause:

Looks SO amazing :drool:

Not my style! And in my opinion it does not fit to the context of Prenzlauer Berg...:ohno:

Wow nice, looks like UFO. Well done Berlin.

Washingtonplatz:
unfortunately they redesigned the "office-cube". construction will start in 2012, 43m (12 floors), office space and shops.
new design:
http://bilder.bild.de/fotos/kanzleramt-24257398-mfbq-21749506/Bild/2.bild.jpg

old design:
http://www.abload.de/img/mim_cube_dw_berlin__46sofi.jpg

The new design is way better.

old design again:
http://www.abload.de/img/3xn_kubus_1_bm_pol_152xxw4.jpg
and video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js_WLpx0Kkg

A long article but has a nice perspective about the start-up scene in Berlin :cheers:

Why Berlin is poised to be Europe’s new tech hub

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/82/219478713_0339146f17.jpg

After the visual opulence of Paris, Berlin feels almost dowdy. Drab and dark, the city hardly comes across as one of the great capitals of the world. A city’s importance on a global stage is measured typically by the size and scope of its airport: Shanghai, New York, London, Los Angeles, Frankfurt and Paris are good examples.

Berlin’s Tegel Airport reminds me of another airport from my childhood in India. It is small – very unlike the city, which itself is sprawling and a collection of many neighborhoods. It doesn’t take very long for me to conclude that Berlin is one of the most un-German of German cities. That, it turns out, is its curse and its charm.

Earlier this year, Alexander Ljung, co-founder and chief executive officer, of SoundCloud and Christophe Maire, founder & chief executive, of e-book services company Txtr, separately invited me to visit Berlin. Their argument: something exciting is going on in Germany’s post-unification capital. It is, they insisted, beginning to attract talent and is becoming home to many new technology startups.

[FULL ARTICLE HERE] (http://gigaom.com/2011/12/27/why-berlin-is-poised-to-be-europes-new-tech-hub/)

http://gigaom.com/2011/12/27/why-berlin-is-poised-to-be-europes-new-tech-hub/

just finished residential buildings in the district of Prenzlauer Berg:

http://www.deutsches-architektur-forum.de/forum/pics/bato/Berlin/Baustellen/06.11.11/IMG_0356.JPG

http://www.deutsches-architektur-forum.de/forum/pics/bato/Berlin/Baustellen/06.11.11/IMG_0358.jpg

Prenzlauer Bogen:
http://www.deutsches-architektur-forum.de/forum/pics/bato/Berlin/Baustellen/06.11.11/PB%20Panorama.jpg
http://www.deutsches-architektur-forum.de/forum/pics/bato/Berlin/Baustellen/06.11.11/IMG_0346.JPG
http://www.deutsches-architektur-forum.de/forum/pics/bato/Berlin/Baustellen/06.11.11/IMG_0342.JPG
http://www.deutsches-architektur-forum.de/forum/pics/bato/Berlin/Baustellen/06.11.11/IMG_0339.JPG
http://www.deutsches-architektur-forum.de/forum/pics/bato/Berlin/Baustellen/06.11.11/IMG_0337.JPG pics by Bato DAF

OMG I WANT TO LIVE THERE :banana::cheers: KUDOS for BERLIN!

Industrial-Sized Rooftop Farm Planned for Berlin

http://cdn2.spiegel.de/images/image-287839-galleryV9-jmsn.jpg

It is hardly a logical spot for a farm, but three Berliners have earmarked a massive former factory roof for an unusual urban agriculture venture. The sustainable set-up will produce both vegetables and fish for local residents and could be a model for future city farms as the world continues to urbanize.

Most of our food makes an environmentally-costly journey by plane, train or truck before it lands on city supermarket shelves. But three Berlin-based entrepreneurs want to change this by cultivating food in the heart of the metropolis.

The Frisch vom Dach, or Fresh from the Roof project, plans to create a 7,000-square-meter roof garden, complete with a fish farm, to provide Berliners with sustainable, locally-grown food. They hope to sow the seeds of a new form of urban agriculture, arguing that traditional farming needs to evolve -- and soon.

"Humankind is driving fast into a wall," said Nicolas Leschke, a co-founder of Frisch vom Dach. "Global resources are running out. With so many people living in cities, we need to think locally."

Currently, the expansive roof of the former malt factory in Berlin's Schöneberg district is more grey than green. But in 2013 they plan to harvest lettuce, herbs and tomatoes, as well as raising different species of fish. Once their unorthodox farm is established, they expect to produce tons of vegetables and fish each month.

The products will be distributed from within the old malt factory, bringing food production closer to Berliners' plates, and erasing the CO2 emmissions generated by transporting food long distances.

Key to their plans are a row of massive vats near the top of the rambling factory. Formerly used to dry barley, they want to repurpose the containers as a fish farm.

Saving Water

The fish will be sold as food and, crucially, their excretions, especially the ammonia excreted through the gills, will be converted into nitrates. That will serve as fertilizer for the plants growing in green houses above the fish tanks. In turn, the plants will purify the water for the fish. The system for sustainable food production is known as "aquaponics."

"The beauty of the system is that you just need to add fish food," explained co-founder Karoline vom Böckel, who specialises in strategy and research.

A small-scale prototype of their vision has boosted their optimism. In a double-decker metal structure built out of an upcycled container, they are already raising fish on the lower level and growing tomatoes and lettuce in hydroponic beds above.

Part of the system's appeal is the flexibility of the symbiotic arrangement. Meanwhile, it uses water sparingly. Just 200 liters of water are required to produce one kilo of fish, the group says, far below the average 1,000 liters used in conventional fish farms. Producing one kilo of beef requires some 15,500 liters of water, they estimate.

"This farm is not just an urban project. It could be set up anywhere -- even in places with water shortages," Leschke said.

More City Dwellers

Although the water-based aquaponic concept was invented in the 1970s, the Fresh from the Roof team say theirs will be the first rooftop garden of its size worldwide to use the technology. But as the world urbanizes quickly, finding new ways to bring food closer to the consumer is vital. By 2050 the United Nations estimates that two out of every three people on earth will live in a city (today that figure stands at one in two).

Growing awareness of this trend has sparked an urban gardening movement around the world. With predictions of food shortages in mind, architects and gardeners alike are exploring ways of growing food in metropolitan areas.

Proposals have ranged from potted plants on urban balconies to adventurous, ultra-modern plans, such as a plant-coated conveyor belt inside a 100-meter glass dome.

But Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen, an expert in community gardening and urban agriculture at Berlin's Free University stressed the need for low-key urban agriculture. "A simple green roof garden is a good thing but hi-tech solutions can be too energy intensive," she told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "Some of these architects' dreams simply aren't possible in the context of a future energy crisis."

Buying Local

The Fresh from the Roof project is just one of several such straightforward urban farming projects in the German capital. Community gardens are flourishing, thanks in part to a glut of unused space.

The Prinzessinnengarten, once a wasteland next to a busy inner-city roundabout, is one such venture. Nestled into the city's scrappy Kreuzberg district, organizers grow crops and herbs in sacks and old milk containers, reinventing the derelict site as an inner-city idyll. Not far away, two urban gardens have sprouted up in the sprawling Tempelhof Park, formerly an airfield.

This trend corresponds to a increasing consumer appetite for regional food. A survey from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture showed 65 percent of Germans say they mostly or always try to buy local produce. Although Germany's consumption of organic food increased three-fold over the past decade, locally-grown produce remains in short supply, a fact which was part of the founders' inspiration for the Fresh from the Roof project.

"Take tomatoes," explained co-founder Christian Echternacht. "They are imported from Spain, traveling thousands of kilometers. They are organic but arrive with a rucksack of greenhouse gases on their backs."
Their rooftop garden will not come cheaply, though. An estimated €5 million ($6.7 million) will be needed to set up the scheme, and the Fresh from the Roof team are still on the lookout for potential investors. Although their plan is still in its infancy, they report significant interest and say they are in early talks about the project.

"This is a gap in the market and we want to close it," Echternacht said.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,800376,00.html

Alexanderplatz, construction of "Alea 101" will start next week:
http://www.bz-berlin.de/multimedia/archive/00279/Alea101_2795846.jpg

does anyone know when the construction of the Atlastower and the Hinestower will start?

does anyone know when the construction of the Atlastower and the Hinestower will start?

as far as i know they want to start with Atlastower this year...same with Hinestower. I found an article, but it´s in german:
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/atlas-tower-ein-zweites-hochhaus-fuer-die-city-west/4669990.html

hopefully at spring!

^^ i don´t think so. Hines has not even published a final design so far...

nice I love berlin

^^
One can't have enough Patzschke in Berlin. :D Best architects in town!

:banana: Second that. Love those buildings.

I have a question, what is happening with the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche? Are they gonna reconstruct the belfry or simply will make sure that it is structurally stable.

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3194/5866327840_8d6693648b_z.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30845644@N04/5866327840/

berlin needs more and taller skyscrapers! :D

@ ulpia-serdica: actually they really will make sure that it is structurally stable. it´s a war-memorial, but war is about 67 years ago...so even some memorable ruins have to be refurbished...just for the memory.... :)

some other...i guess BAD news...near Potsdamer platz there was an area, some investor hat great ideas a few years ago...hmmm...just this week, newspapers announced that this ideas are...well...let´s say a bit modified...actually i don´t really like the new design but it really fits to the reast of the buildings around the side...so here the new design:

NEW:
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/5819/fullmbp1001.jpgby hilmer and sattler architects

the old design:
http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/1562/001gw.jpg

personally i love the old one...but hell...the new one is so typically berlin...i can live with that....

oh...btw...the "charlston" next to the project:
http://i42.tinypic.com/9j3uz5.jpg

and the "scandic, really, really next to it:
http://convention.visitberlin.de/sites/default/files/scandic-berlin_0.jpg

so..it doesn´t matter that there is another boring building in that row.... :(

Oooh, I like the new design! :D

hell...you DOOOO????

The old design is so classy and contemporary, I really hope the new one doesn't get build, it's cute but seriously. (...)

Wow Excellent posting guys.

berlin needs more and taller skyscrapers! :D

Yes the projects in Berlin looks more like those in smaller capitals like Helsinki or Stockholm. Berlin need a cluster of skyscrapers.

What is the exact location of Alea 101?

@ ulpia-serdica: actually they really will make sure that it is structurally stable. it´s a war-memorial, but war is about 67 years ago...so even some memorable ruins have to be refurbished...just for the memory.... :)

some other...i guess BAD news...near Potsdamer platz there was an area, some investor hat great ideas a few years ago...hmmm...just this week, newspapers announced that this ideas are...well...let´s say a bit modified...actually i don´t really like the new design but it really fits to the reast of the buildings around the side...so here the new design:

NEW:
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/5819/fullmbp1001.jpgby hilmer and sattler architects

the old design:
http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/1562/001gw.jpg

personally i love the old one...but hell...the new one is so typically berlin...i can live with that....

Ehh, the new design is much better. The old design was nothing more but another boring glass box.

The brickwork looks nice but the upper part looks like a modernized commieblock.

ThyssenKrupp: new office building representing the company in the german capital, just in the historical center of Berlin, next to the "new" palace (which will be reconstructed in 2013). The building will be 26m high.

http://www.abload.de/img/tkh_1006_hauptperspekl8kqo.gif

http://www.abload.de/img/tkh_1006_nachtperspekm2kmi.jpg

http://www.abload.de/img/tkh_1006_innenperspekdjkm9.jpg

http://www.abload.de/img/tkh_1006_modell-1-hanzpjex.jpg

Absolutely horrible. At least at that location. :ohno:

well i´m not sure...the area is very special, historical, indeed, but i guess between all this reconstructed stuff some modern glass building could be quite interessting.... btw this building stood there until WWII, it used to be a hotel, called "the red palace" (rotes schloß)...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Rote_Burg,_Berlin_1880.jpg/800px-Rote_Burg,_Berlin_1880.jpg

revitalization of the old Boetzow Brewery side in Prenzlauer Berg. 23 000 squaremetres will be transformed into hotels, flats, stores, lofts, restaurants, offices and galleries. Otto Bock will invest more than 100 million euros into the project.

It looks like a space ship. :eek:

I like the design of the ThyssenKrupp, that zone would be perfect with a few more trees.

Absolutely horrible. At least at that location. :ohno:

I disagree, if they dont mess up the cladding, then this could be a very sexy building.

Absolutely horrible. At least at that location. :ohno:

Have to agree. Suits a different architectural environment.

Sorry but the buildings are looking just awful especially the ones by patzschke. They quite look like social housings and have nothing to do with great architecture. If you really want some real quality architects you should visit graft archtects site. Patzschke is the worst! I quite like the thyssen one though.

Disgusting thing they want to plant there. Shame on thyssen krupp. :ohno:

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Berlin Cracks the Startup Code

http://images.businessweek.com/cms/2012-04-12/tech_berlin16__01__630x420.jpg

On a rainy day in March 2011, Ciarán O’Leary and two colleagues crammed into a Berlin taxi and raced for the station to catch a train back to Hamburg. While snaking through the city streets, it hit him: Leaving Berlin was a bad idea. “We looked at each other and knew in that moment that we’d be crazy not to move here,” says O’Leary, a partner at the German venture capital firm Earlybird. “There was just so much happening—founders everywhere, in every bar, cafe, every corner.”

full article: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-12/berlin-cracks-the-startup-code

del

Siebentausendzweihundertvierundfünfzig thumbs up about the project :cheers:

BER - Berlin Brandenburg Airport Willy Brandt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport)

Pics from 15th march:

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/3558/2012034alternative.jpg

http://img861.imageshack.us/img861/759/2012033alternative.jpg

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/8004/2012035alternative.jpg

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/9711/2012036alternative.jpg

http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/3218/2012037alternative.jpg

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/7245/2012032alternative.jpg

Mainpier
http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/3959/2012031alternative.jpg

Source and Copyright: Berlin Airports (Photos by Alexander Obst and Marion Schmieding)

Good news for Berlin's Atlas Tower (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=836626) project :)


According to this article & gallery of the Berliner Zeitung (http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/berlin,10809148,14941238.html):

The demolition of the remaining parts of the Schimmelpfeng-Haus (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schimmelpfeng-Haus) will start in autumn 2012.
The completion of the Atlas Tower is scheduled for 2015.
Constructor of the 119m highrise will be the STRABAG Real Estate.
Investment of ~250 million Euro.
The STRABAG applied for a permit for apartment construction there, so we might see an apartment tower rise next to Zoofenster (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=842004) and the Memorial Church (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Wilhelm_Memorial_Church) in City West.


At the website of the STRABAG (http://www.strabag-real-estate.com/databases/internet/_public/content.nsf/web/DE-STRABAGREAL.COM-PROJEKTE-B%C3%9CRO-Atlas%20Tower,%20Berlin-Mitte#?men1=2&men2=undefined&sid=232&h=2), the Langhof design is still shown. Good news imho, as I like the concept.

One of the known renders:

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/2941/casianahwirkg450x675.jpg
Source: www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de (http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/planen/stadtplanerische_konzepte/leitbild_city_west/pix/teilprojekt_projekte/einzelprojekte/neues_schimmelpfenghaus/casia_nahwirkg_450x675.jpg)

Good news for sure, but I will believe it just, only when the construction begins.


However, time for some highrise projects at Alexanderplatz to be announced :)

Great building !!

@Wunderknabe: Indeed, remaining skeptical here doesn't sound like a bad idea.

Regarding Alex highrises: We had a zillion of announcements. It's time for constructions! But I'd rather see some great designs and a new masterplan evolve than have some short-sighted investor boxes at the square.

Berlin’s Startup Innovators Create A Factory To Call Their Own

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There is a chapter in the history of technology startups, or perhaps more a book, that will be dedicated to Berlin. As with other cities, but particularly those that, in 2012, are attracting what I like to call The International Brigade of startup entrepreneurs, Berlin is plowing its own path… its own, distinct, ecosystem. But there is something uniquely Berlin about how this history is playing out. For if this were the Middle Ages, we’d be talking that time when the villagers began demanding more rights from the feudal, Teutonic knights. Perhaps rising up to reclaim their destiny. Just as Berlin started out with a handful of entrepreneurs dominating the scene – sometimes unwilling to share the wealth with their serfs in the field – now a new wave is bringing a new, collaborative and organic approach.

To that end, this new wave has already begin to manifest itself physically. Two years ago, on a winter’s day in Berlin, I sat in a coffee shop with Alexander Ljung and David Noël of SoundCloud talking about this new breed of startups. “We’re mentoring each other. It’s starting to happen,” said Ljung, excitedly. Then, earlier this year, I met a man sitting behind me at a dinner in Munich. He tapped me on the shoulder. “I have something to show you,” he said. I turned around and he proceeded to show me pictures of a giant building that sat on the old border of East and West Berlin. “We’re building a factory,” he said, with a smile. This week, that ‘factory’ breaks cover.

JMES Investments, a Berlin based Angel and Seed Investor has partnered with a large property company, s+p Real Estate, and together with private investors, have have acquired and begun to develop an 8,500 square-meter office building. It stands on the site of the former Oswald Brauerei building in Berlin’s central Mitte district (on Rheinsberger Strasse, at the corner with Brunnenstrasse, here). The space will become a new tech hub comprising a startup incubator and accelerator programs with office space for Berlin’s ‘most successful’ – as they call it – startups.

JMES, an Angel and Seed Investor currently has a portfolio of just under 20 companies. Its team comprises investors Udo Schloemer, Sascha Gechter, Marc Brucherseifer, Andreas Hoffmann and Simon Schaefer have recently invested in Silicon Allee, Moped and Monoqi amongst others.

“We are creating a campus where startups can learn from each other and use collective knowledge to overcome early stage hurdles,” says Simon Schaefer, partner at JMES, and also the man I met in Munich.

The idea of the factory is no doubt familiar to anyone following the startup scene. The idea is to bring together successful entrepreneurs, early stage startups and ideas into one space. But alongside the offices and a large conference area will be a fitness room, basketball court, restaurant and a deli and – this is Berlin after all – an art gallery.

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With a total of 5 stories and 85,00 square-meters of space on the site of the former wall separating East from West Berlin, The Factory is a clear statement of intent. Just as Google’s new Campus building in London’s Shoreditch is attracting satellite offices from tech startups, The Factory aims to be a the heart of Berlin’s new scene.

Crucially, the aim is to involve the startup scene outside the building. “This concept will not be formed by investors, but rather the scene itself,” says Schaefer.

To that end, the first tenant late this year will be, appropriately enough, SoundCloud, which moves its Berlin Headquarters to the new location,

Alexander Grosse, VP Engineering for SoundCloud, says: ‘The Factory will provide us with an environment that reflects the culture and working ethic of SoundCloud; one that fosters collaboration, innovation, creativity and development.”

However, I have to ask, what is the catch? It sounds all a little too good to be true, for those involved at least.

Will The Factory take equity in residents? What is the deal for startups? Do they just get space or what?

“Of course we have the network for a great financing round for startups,” Schaefer tells me, “but every founder, idea or deal will be treated differently. We do not want to narrow ourselves into incubation or acceleration. Every option should all be possible.”

He plans to make sure Berlin’s existing network of Entrepreneurs and Angels can participate in The Factory, such as Christophe Maire, Dario Suter, and now, even Founders like Alex Ljung, who themselves are investing here and there in startups.

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It’s certainly a grand vision. In London it took the giant Google to buy a lease and renovate an entire office building, such is the expense involved in taking space less than a mile from the city’s wealthy financial district. In Berlin it takes the will of some far-sighted property developed and angel investors to have a vision for a place that at one time singularly divided Eastern and Western Europe.

It’s now up to The Factory to make the Berlin network sing and hum in a way only a physical space can.

The new wave just got real.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/25/berlins-startup-innovators-create-a-factory-to-call-their-own/

Cool project! :okay:


A general question:

I'd like to see some projects in Potsdam showcased. Such as the castle and other reconstruction projects. (Here's a reference (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1502334))

Do you think Potsdam should get an own, independent city thread or should we post the projects at this Berlin thread?

^^

IMO, keep it in the Berlin thread because the thread does not get too many updates and this will help it stay up top.

German architects exploit the Berlin cityscape by framing views and reflecting surroundings

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=19633

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Thats very cool!

Beautiful photos!

amaizing bulding!

This spanish hotel brand has super cool hotels everywhere :). this is really nice, following the soul of the company.

Also inside the hotel is really great:

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all pictures from kontraplan (http://kontraplan.com/site/2012/01/24/the-nhow-hotel-in-berlin/)...

Absolutely horrible. At least at that location. :ohno:

Absolutely agree. Could not be more out of place for that location The so called modernists will think it's "cool" and then a few years down the line it will be reviled just as the 60's and 70's junk is today when they disfigure an historic area of a city. This is a key area for preservation/restoration/rebuilding of Berlin and commn sense should prevail but there is always some arrogant twat wanting to put their stamp on things.

This spanish hotel brand has super cool hotels everywhere :). this is really nice, following the soul of the company.

spanish?? oh great!!I didn't know that!