Galeries Lafayette Berlin
The Galeries Lafayette Berlin is a department store in Berlin's Friedrichstrasse ( Mitte district ). The building by the French architect Jean Nouvel is also called Quartier 207 . The department store is operated by the French department store chain Galeries Lafayette and is considered one of the most important buildings of the 1990s in Berlin.
The department store is one of the few Galeries Lafayette branches outside of mainland France - the others are in Dubai , Casablanca and Jakarta .
History and conception
For a long time, Friedrichstrasse was marked by war damage . In the 1980s, the GDR leadership had the goal of transforming Friedrichstrasse into a splendid socialist boulevard. The construction management for special projects of the capital Berlin under the leadership of Erhardt Gißke was commissioned with the implementation. In 1980 Gißke went to Paris with his staff and inspected Ricardo Bofill's buildings . This construction method was to serve as a model for the design of the Friedrichstadt-Passage . With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, construction work was discontinued. The Treuhandanstalt divided the Friedrichstadt-Passage property into three parts. The Quartier 205 and Quartier 206 buildings were realized on the other two parts of the Friedrichstadt-Passagen .
In the northern block of Friedrichstadt-Passagen, on the corner of Französische Strasse , the Galeries Lafayette Berlin was built , designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel . A vertical garden by the Parisian botanist and horticultural artist Patrick Blanc grows on the facade . The building has a glass facade. This was only possible because the property had already been sold in 1991 and the design specifications by Hans Stimmann had not yet come into force. In addition to the Akademie der Künste on Pariser Platz, it was possible to build the only fully glazed new building in downtown Berlin .
The Allianz Real Estate took over the property in 2012 from a Luxembourg investment company.
On February 29, 1996, Galeries Lafayette was one of the first companies to open a department store in the former eastern part of Berlin after German reunification .
On a sales area of 8000 m², high-end goods are offered on five floors.
The house offers international fashion for women, men and children, accessories, shoes and a care spa for men only on four floors .
The Lafayette Gourmet , located in the basement, is a gourmet department that mainly offers French delicacies. There is also a table culture department (arts de la table) and a French bookshop.
Another concept is the LABOmode on the second floor in cooperation with the ESMOD Berlin fashion school . Here, young Berliners and international up-and-coming designers have the opportunity to present and sell their creations in close proximity to international designer brands.
In the Galeries Lafayette, events such as fashion shows take place regularly, mostly for invited guests, but sometimes also in public.
literature
- Christian Bahr: The new Berlin. Changes in the cityscape. Jaron-Verlag, 1999, pp. 54-65.
- Wolfgang Kil : Luxury mile in Loser Land In: Founders' Paradise On building in times of transition. Verlag Bauwesen, Berlin 2000, pp. 54–67.
Web links
- 8 questions for Alexandre Liot . ( Memento from March 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Interview with the new manager of Galeries Lafayette Berlin, December 16, 2009.
- We are definitely not a bargain provider . In: Der Tagesspiegel , May 24, 2006, interview with Lafayette boss Philippe Houzé.
Individual evidence
- ^ Galeries Lafayette Berlin in the French language Wikipedia
- ↑ Press release ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Allianz Group buys on Friedrichstrasse in Berlin. In: Berliner Morgenpost , April 12, 2014.
- ↑ youtube.com
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 52 ″ N , 13 ° 23 ′ 24 ″ E