Alea 101

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Alea 101 is the name of a business and residential building in the Berlin district of Mitte of the district of the same .

location

Alea 101 front, December 2015
Side view, December 2015

The building is free-standing and is located south between the Alexanderplatz station and the television tower on the corner of Gontardstrasse and Rathausstrasse .

history

The Alea 101 under construction
Construction progress in October 2013

The first German C&A branch was opened on the site in 1911 and existed until the expropriation by the GDR in 1949. The building was initially used as a clothing store by the state trade organization . On December 18, 1956, the nationality restaurant Haus Bucharest opened on the ground floor , until it had to move out at the end of 1967 to create new sales space for the Centrum grocery store , which was planned to be demolished on the opposite side . The HO clothing store at Rathausstrasse 33 was demolished in 1974 and the site was incorporated into the landscaped open space around the television tower. After the political changes in the GDR in 1989/1990 and German reunification , the C&A owner family Brenninkmeijer got the 2,655 square meter site back.

The client for the Alea 101 building was Redevco Services Germany . In 2009 the investor carried out a cooperative implementation competition together with the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and the Central District Office. On November 26th, 2009, a jury voted in favor of the design by the Berlin architecture firm Sauerbruch Hutton .

The first tree felling work was carried out on January 19, 2012, construction began on January 20, 2012. The foundation stone was laid on November 29, 2012.

After the general contractor, Alpine Bau , filed for bankruptcy on March 19, 2013 , construction work was suspended until July 17, 2013 and has continued since then. The building was completed in September 2014.

Buildings and use

The Alea 101 is a five-story, around 30-meter-high, cube-shaped solitaire designed by the Berlin architects Sauerbruch Hutton . The lower three floors (around 10,500 m²) are intended for retail and catering ( Vapiano ) , while offices (1,600 m²) and 14 apartments (1,600 m²) are planned on the two upper floors.

Surname

The name is made up of the cube-shaped shape of the building ( Alea is Latin for 'cube') and the start of construction, 101 years after the opening of the C&A branch on the site.

Web links

Commons : Alea 101  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alea am Alex: Sauerbruch Hutton's office building in Berlin . In: BauNetz
  2. ↑ a b Start of construction for Alea 101 in Berlin . In: Immobilien Zeitung
  3. ^ New Germany , December 19, 1956, p. 8
  4. ^ Neue Zeit , December 29, 1967, p. 8
  5. ↑ After Alexa comes Alea . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 11, 2012
  6. ↑ a b Senate Department for Urban Development: Alexanderplatz - Building Block C2 - REDEVCO ( Memento from January 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Tree massacre on Alexanderplatz . In: Berliner Kurier , January 19, 2012
  8. ↑ Redevco lays the foundation stone for ALEA 101 in Berlin. Redevco, November 29, 2012; archived from the original on October 24, 2014 ; Retrieved November 29, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Construction work on the Berlin ALEA 101 continues. Redevco, July 19, 2013, archived from the original on August 4, 2015 ; Retrieved August 17, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Dirk Jericho: Cube under the television tower: Alea 101 business and residential building is ready. In: Berliner Woche Online. September 18, 2014, accessed November 16, 2014 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 14.4 "  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 40.8"  E