Berlin - Potsdamer Platz by t.ART

Potsdamer Platz was redeveloped after reunification. The ensemble of skyscrapers and futuristic new buildings forms a district all its own.

Potsdamer Platz was planned by architects as an entire city district. With success - the cafés, cinemas and shopping facilities between the futuristic high-rises are used by Berliners and tourists alike. The city planners' calculation has worked out: Berliners have responded very well to the cafés, cinemas and the large shopping arcade of the new Daimler City. On 6.8 hectares, a whole new urban district has been created between Potsdamer Platz and Reichpietschufer.

From Potsdamer Platz, one enters the district as if through a city gate: Two high-rise buildings by Piano/Kohlbecker (left) and Hans Kollhoff (right) enclose the Alte Potsdamer Strasse, which resumes its pre-war course here. To the right follow the building blocks by Lauber & Wöhr and José Rafael Moneo (Hotel Hyatt), to the left the Weinhaus Huth, the only preserved old building, and the shopping arcade lined by buildings by Piano/Kohlbecker and Richard Rogers (facing Linkstraße).

"District center" is Marlene-Dietrich-Platz, which is dominated by the double building of the casino and the musical theater with its large roof (Piano/Kohlbecker). Piano and Kohlbecker also designed the Debis headquarters on the Landwehrkanal. In the center of the 163-meter-long building block stretches the glass-roofed atrium, whose perimeter development rises in three stages by one floor each, gradually leading up to the high-rise that forms the head building. This 85-meter-high glass "office tower" has a second facade on the south and west sides to save energy.