Railway tower

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Railway tower
Railway tower
Basic data
Place: Berlin
Construction time : 1998-2000
Architectural style : Modern
Architect : Helmut Jahn
Architects : Murphy / Jahn Architects
Use / legal
Usage : office
Technical specifications
Height : 103.0 m
Height to the roof: 94.0 m
Floors : 26th
Height comparison
Berlin : 6. ( list )
Germany : 64. ( list )
address
City: Berlin
Country: Germany

The Bahnower (own spelling: BahnTower ) is the seat of the parent company of Deutsche Bahn in Berlin . The building is on Potsdamer Platz and forms the eastern end of the Sony Center . It has a total height of 103 meters and has 26  floors .

The Deutsche Bahn headquarters located in the building costs around one billion euros per year (as of 2015).

history

The railway tower was built between 1998 and 2000 by Hochtief AG and the Kajima Corporation based on designs by the German architect Helmut Jahn . The building has a usable area of 22,000 m².

The building hit the local headlines several times in 2007 and 2008 as parts of the glass facade repeatedly came loose and fell onto the street in front of the building. Nobody was injured. In 2016, a pane of glass fell from the facade onto a moving car.

Deutsche Bahn originally planned to move to a twelve-story high-rise at Berlin Central Station in 2010 . In April 2008 the company announced plans to extend the lease for the railway tower, which expired at the end of 2009, by at least three years. In November 2008, the company abandoned plans to move to the main train station. In 2009 the company extended the lease by 15 years.

See also

Web links

Commons : BahnTower  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Fockenbrock: Railway Reform: First Act . In: Handelsblatt . No. 143 , July 30, 2015, ISSN  0017-7296 , p. 28 (According to the source, it is actually one billion euros. Apparently, this does not mean the costs of the building, but the personnel and material costs of the employees working there.).
  2. ↑ Railway Tower. In: Structurae
  3. ↑ a b Bahn cannot find tenants for the main station tower . In: Berliner Morgenpost , August 8, 2010
  4. ↑ Splinter rain on the railway tower . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 13, 2007
  5. ↑ Defective glass on the railway tower . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 23, 2008
  6. ^ Another broken glass in the railway tower on Potsdamer Platz . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 15, 2008
  7. ↑ Glass from the railway tower crashes into a moving car. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved April 21, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Mehdorn obstructs the Chancellor's view . In: Die Welt , December 18, 2007
  9. ↑ Deutsche Bahn rejects plans to move . ( Memento from May 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Financial Times Deutschland , April 23, 2008

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 35 ″  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 30 ″  E