Bikini house
| Bikini Berlin | ||
|---|---|---|
|
||
| Southern facade of the Bikini House | ||
| Basic data | ||
| Location: |
Berlin-Charlottenburg , Budapester Strasse 38–50 |
|
| Opening: | April 3, 2014 Concept Shopping Mall | |
| Shops: | 64 | |
| Owner : | Bavarian house construction | |
| Website: | Homepage | |
| Transport links | ||
| Railway station: | Zoological Garden | |
| S-Bahn : |
 ,  ,
|
|
| Subway : |
 , 
|
|
| Omnibus : |
 100, 109, 110, 200, 204, 245, 249, M45, M46, M49, X9, X10, X34, N2, N10, N26
|
|
| Technical specifications | ||
| Construction time : | 1955-1957 | |
| Architect : | Schwebes & Schoszberger | |
| Architects : | Architects' office SAQ, Hild und K Architekten Renovation: 2010–2013 |
|
The Bikinihaus is a listed former industrial, commercial and office building on Budapester Strasse in City West in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg . The Bikinihaus is part of a building ensemble that today bears the name Bikini Berlin, historically the complex was called Zentrum am Zoo . The center at the zoo also included the high-rise at Hardenbergplatz (also called Huthmacher-Haus or DOB-Haus ), the Zoo-Palast , the small high-rise and the parking garage at the zoo .
The entire building complex was financed by funds from the Marshall Plan and by the investor Jacques Rosenstein. An inscription on the house at Budapester Strasse 46 once reminded of the original purpose of the zoo center:
"CENTER AT THE ZOO ESTABLISHED 1956–1957 WITH COUNTER-SALES FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR THE BERLIN CLOTHING INDUSTRY"
Today the Bikinihaus mainly houses an extensive shopping center and various gastronomic offers. The zoological garden is located north of the building with an accessible terrace . To the south opposite the Bikinihaus is Breitscheidplatz with the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church ; The high-rise projects Zoofenster and Upper West are within sight .
history
As part of the new West Berlin Center at the Zoo, the Bikinihaus was built between 1955 and 1957 according to plans by the architects Paul Schwebes and Hans Schoszberger . The elongated building with six floors had an open, formerly generously wide colonnade with a row of shops on the ground floor . The four stairwells of the Bikinihaus, like the street for deliveries to the production facilities, were at the rear of the building complex.
The name of the house comes from the time it was built. On the one hand, it refers to the original use as a production facility for women's outerwear (DOB) - the DOB was one of the leading branches of industry during the reconstruction years in West Berlin, and in the Bikini-Haus ready-made fashion was produced on around 700 sewing machines . On the other hand, the nickname is derived from the aerial floor, which separated the sales floors (ground floor to 1st floor) from the production facilities (3rd to 5th floor) and gave the building a two-part structure, similar to a bikini . The open bikini floor (2nd floor) was closed around 1978 to make room for the Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin .
In the place of the Bikinihaus stood the Capitol-Lichtspiele at the zoo until it was destroyed in the Second World War - a building complex in the New Objectivity style that was built in the 1920s by the architect Hans Poelzig .
Redevelopment
In March 2002 the building was sold to Bayerische Hausbau . On December 2, 2010, the renovation work planned by Bayerische Hausbau began to create a hotel, office and shopping complex. The Bikini Berlin master plan comes from the Belgian architecture firm SAQ around the artist Arne Quinze and the architecture firm UAU collectiv (SAQ architects) founded by him . It originally envisaged the opening of the bikini floor and the addition of a penthouse floor on the roof. The Munich architecture firm Hild und K, which specializes in building in existing structures and made the SAQ design buildable, was entrusted with the execution and detailed planning.
In the course of the complex construction project, which was carried out between 2010 and 2013, massive renovations, demolitions and extensions of the center at the zoo were carried out. Only the 16-storey high-rise on Hardenbergplatz was excluded from this . The air conditioning was renovated as early as 1985, with all original windows being removed and the entire building, which was originally made of exposed concrete, was clad with a new, white aluminum facade. The Zoo-Palast , on the other hand, was renovated on the outside by 2013 while largely preserving the protected building structure and completely rebuilt inside and modernized with regard to the building technology. The grand opening of the Zoo Palast took place in November 2013.
The bikini house was completely gutted during the renovation and dismantled down to the bare concrete structure. All windows and shop windows from the construction period, as well as all original facade elements, such as the opaque glass friezes, were completely removed and replaced by reconstructions. An equally massive intervention in the monument substance took place inside and on the back of the building facing the zoo area. For example, all stairwells and ground floor buildings in the Bikinihaus were demolished and replaced by a two-story mall passage with a terrace. In addition, the rear facade was completely removed and replaced with a modern design. The color of the reconstructed facade facing Budapester Strasse was modeled on traces of color found.
The small skyscraper was also gutted, all windows from the construction period were replaced by replicas and a new glass facade was provided on the zoo side. Here the green color fields on the street facade, in the absence of actual findings on the monument, are an invention of the architects. The also listed parking garage at the zoo was completely dismantled and replaced by a new parking garage with extensive commercial space. The parking garage at the zoo was not only the first multi-storey new building for stationary traffic in Berlin after the Second World War, it was also one of the few listed parking garages on the Berlin monument list.
The redesigned building complex, which has been heavily dense with intermediate and additions, now has a usable area of around 54,000 m². Before the renovation, the building was also used temporarily as a theater. The design hotel 25hours with 149 rooms was built in the small skyscraper . The reconstructed bikini house was reopened on April 3, 2014 as a shopping center , as a concept shopping mall.
In November 2018 it was announced that the Huthmacherhaus would be replaced by a new building in the 2020s due to the lack of security requirements and the need for renovation, which should follow the old Huthmacherhaus in the same place and open in 2024. The tenants were already given notice at the end of 2020.
literature
- Florian Heilmeyer, Florian Bolk (photos): Post-war modern show Berlin. Stadtwandel, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86711-018-1 (= The new architecture guide. Volume 107).
- Ingrid Nowel: Berlin: the old new metropolis: architecture and art, history and literature. (= DuMont art travel guide). 7th edition, DuMont , Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7701-5577-4 , p. 280.
- Adrian von Buttlar, Kerstin Wittmann-Englert, Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper (eds.): Post-war modern architecture. Architecture Guide Berlin 1949–1979. Berlin 2013, pp. 184-186, ISBN 978-3-496-01486-7 .
Web links
- Bikini House Project website
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List: Zentrum am Zoo, Bikini-Haus, Large Skyscraper and Zoo-Palast
- design architect
- Bikini Berlin in City West opens on April 3rd. In: Berliner Morgenpost from January 31, 2014.
- Photo tour (Modern Regional 2014/2) with partially unpublished historical photos from the archive of the architect Paul Schwebes
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Bikinihaus, architectural monument. At: berlin.de
- ↑ Bikini Berlin in City West opens on April 3rd. In: Berliner Morgenpost . dated January 31, 2014.
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- ↑ New tenants for the Temporary Shopping Gallery ( Memento from November 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the Bayerische Hausbau website
- ↑ Bikini Berlin: Revitalization is advancing. In: DEAL magazine , April 8, 2011.
- ↑ Bikini Berlin is getting a 25hours design hotel . In: Immobilien Zeitung online , December 21, 2011, accessed December 21, 2011.
- ↑ Berliners and tourists now shop in bikini. In: Berliner Morgenpost , April 3, 2014.
- ↑ New plans for the Huthmacher house. In: Der Tagesspiegel , November 8, 2018
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 19.4 " N , 13 ° 20 ′ 10.4" E