Park colonnades - Berlin

Park colonnades - Berlin
Building complex for residences, work and shopping with a three-storey underground car park	Location:	Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
	Year built:	Building sections 1 and 2: 1997 Building sections 3, 4 and 5: 2000 to 2001
	Planning:	House 3: Georgi Grassi House 4: Prof. Jürgen Sawade House 5: Diener & Diener

Urban niches and punctuated facades consisting of brickwork

Seen on a ground plan of the city, the building concept presents itself as a coherent figure resembling a fish with head, bones and tail. The development structure consists of an eleven-storey head construction as a high-rise building, three eight-storey H-shaped blocks and a nine-storey U-shaped block turned at 90° to the former.

The complexes are separated from each other by streets and 6m-wide building-high urban niches. The ensemble is based on fixed points of Grassi in respect to the H-shaped building type, the dimensions, façades and the materials. The external façades of the longitudinal wings and head thus consist of a fully homogenous, uniform punctuated façades comprised of red brickwork.

Facade:
NF Berlin Special light red colour approx. 900,000 items