Edge East Side Tower
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Edge East side Tower Amazontower |
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| Basic data | |
| Place: | Berlin-Friedrichshain |
| Construction time : | 2019–2023 (plan) |
| Architectural style : | Modern |
| Architects : | Bjarke Ingels Group |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | Commerce, first three floors of gastronomy, culture |
| Owner : | Allianz Real Estate and Universal-Investment |
| Main tenant: | Amazon |
| Client : | Project developer Edge |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height : | 140.0 m |
| Floors : | 36 |
| Usable area : | 65,000 m² |
| Building material : | Reinforced concrete |
| Building-costs: | € 400 million |
| address | |
| City: | Berlin Warschauer Strasse |
| Country: | Germany |
The Edge East Side Tower Berlin ( spelling : EDGE East Side Berlin) is an office high-rise planned and started in 2018 in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain ( Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district ), for which the final building permit was granted in November 2019. The 140 meter high tower with a distinctive facade structure is to be built at the southern end of the Warschauer Brücke and inaugurated in 2023.
Planning and execution
The designs were preceded by an invitation competition for three teams of architects, which was won by the Danish architectural firm Bjarke Ingels Group. The Senate's specifications were based on the current Berlin development plan from 2004, which was entitled Rough & Wild and aimed at fitting the single tower well into the existing development around the East Side Gallery . On this basis, the district approved the project in 2018. The building board had requested further adjustments to the first draft, which led to a change in the base area and the rhythm of the columns and beams. In a consultation of the building committee of the building senator Regula Lüscher in September 2019, however, it was expressed that most experts see the submitted changes as cosmetic . Because of the approval that has already been granted, further rescheduling is hardly possible. The cost of the new building is estimated at around 400 million euros . Completion is planned for 2023 . The first owner of the project was the project developer Edge, a subsidiary of the Dutch OVG Real Estate .
Construction apparently started in 2018 immediately after the building permit was granted. In the summer of 2019, the project was sold to a joint venture between Allianz Real Estate and Universal-Investment .
Location and description
The skyscraper is being built on the area west of Warschauer Strasse on Warschauer Brücke, right next to the railway tracks. With 36 floors, it is an eye-catcher at this point and, with its height of 140 meters, should be one of the highest towers in Berlin and tower above both the zoo window and the Upper West . The office space will be around 65,000 square meters. Nine floors with a grid all around will be erected on a rectangular base. Above it begins a stair-like curtain wall, which is evenly distributed over the other floors. In addition to the office space, the first two floors should be accessible to the public and have restaurants, cafés and event rooms. The client is also planning a bar on the roof of the tower.
The first usable Thyssenkrupp MULTI is to be installed in the building, a ropeless elevator system that is organized like a gondola lift.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Senate approves the new construction of the Amazon tower. Retrieved November 14, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Ulrich Paul: criticism of the tower . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 25, 2019, p. 16 (print edition).
- ↑ Friedrichshain is to get a 36-story tower. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .
- ↑ EDGE East Side Berlin | A development by EDGE Technologies. Retrieved August 1, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Isabell Jürgens: 140-meter high-rise on the Warschauer Brücke in Friedrichshain. September 11, 2018, accessed on August 1, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Thyssenkrupp presents the first ropeless elevator. In: ingenieur.de. www.ingenieur.de, 2017, accessed on October 15, 2019 .