Europacity
The Europacity , also known as the Heidestrasse development area or Heidestrasse urban district , is an urban development area predominantly north of Europaplatz at Berlin Central Station .
location
The Europacity area is located in the Moabit district of Berlin's Mitte district . The northern area is bordered by the north-south long-distance railway leading to the main station , Perleberger Straße and the Berlin-Spandauer Schifffahrtskanal , the southern area is bordered by the Humboldthafen , the Spree and the Alt-Moabit street . The traffic artery running through it is Heidestrasse, on which the Total high-rise and the 50Hertz Transmission GmbH office building have been completed. The entire area of the Heidestrasse district is around 85,000 square meters.
Northern area
The 40-hectare section north of Invalidenstrasse was largely shaped in the 2010s by the earlier use of the railway, including as a container station and use by small-scale logistics companies. A mixed quarter is currently being developed in the area with the types of use residential, office, retail and art. Apartments for around 2,000 people and offices for over 10,000 workplaces are planned. A construction period of 15 years is expected from the approval of the master plan in 2009. Heidestrasse was rebuilt between 2013 and 2016: it received cycle paths and the street was greened.
The main owners of the land in the project area are the real estate company CA Immo , formerly Vivico (originally approx. 20 hectares), Deutsche Bahn (approx. 10 hectares) and the State of Berlin (approx. 6 hectares). In the western part, the area is still characterized today by the former use as a container station, in the eastern part by old warehouses as well as storage and fallow areas. However, some uses have already become firmly established on the southern border. With the Museum für Gegenwart in the Hamburger Bahnhof and the adjacent Rieckhalle with the Flick collection, a cultural location has emerged . The location was conceived as an "art campus" and expanded in 2008 to include the "Halle am Wasser" as a location for six art galleries, an agency for art education and an exhibition office. In 2009 the art campus was completed with new entrances, pathways and the design of the central square.
At the beginning of 2008, the Berlin Senate carried out an urban planning competition for the entire development area. The results were incorporated into a master plan and approved in May 2009. In July 2010 the Berlin House of Representatives approved the development plan for Europaplatz, which was extended to the north . In July 2010 Vivico started building the Tour Total Berlin , an approximately 69 meter high office building for the French oil company Total, on the northern part of Europaplatz, which functions as the gateway to Europacity. A special feature will be the new “city harbor” on the western bank of the canal, with which Berlin boat tours will have a new landing stage.
In 2016 the company headquarters for the company 50Hertz Transmission was completed. The design comes from Love Architecture Graz, with the involvement of the company's employees, who erected a slightly offset tower with seven floors on a six-story building. The facade is an eye-catcher with its protruding floor slabs, which lie between inclined, intersecting columns . In a competition by the BDA for the best designs of 2018, the house received the audience award .
CA Immo has now sold a wide variety of properties to investors and project developers. For example, the area on which the fish specialty store "Mitte Meer" was previously located, the property on which the hall by the water is still located today, as well as other properties for office and hotel buildings. The Monnet 4 office building was completed in summer 2015. A new 70-meter-high skyscraper designed by the architects Kleihues + Kleihues is to be built at the Nordhafen as an optical entrance gate to Europacity .
Southern area
With the planning of Berlin Central Station in the 1990s, its immediate surroundings were declared an urban development area with several streets and squares and corresponding uses.
This area, known as Lehrter Stadtquartier , south of Invalidenstrasse - bounded by the Humboldthafen , the Spree, the main station and the Alt-Moabit street - is now also understood as a sub-area of Europacity. To the west of the train station, a checkerboard-like square with office and hotel buildings has been under construction for several years .
In 1994 an urban planning competition was held for the purpose of building the Lehrter Stadtquartier, from which the design by Oswald Mathias Ungers emerged as the winner. On this basis, a development plan was drawn up in summer 2006 . The main property owner is the real estate company CA Immo, which is also developing the Europacity site to the north.
Unger's urban development plan for the CA Immo areas provides for seven separate buildings in the west of the city quarter - two north and five south of the main station - which are to be erected in a north-south orientation on the newly constructed streets. These should not exceed the Berlin eaves height of 22 meters so as not to tower over the east-west roof of the station.
In addition to this traditional block development , the Ungers design provides for two solitary buildings . A 100-meter-high office tower will then also be built on Europaplatz , in which Deutsche Bahn , contrary to its original plan, no longer wants to move. A cubic building with an edge length of 40 meters is to be built on Washingtonplatz . The development plan provides for the construction of around 145,000 m² of floor space. According to CA Immo, offices should dominate there, but hotels or retail are also possible.
traffic
Due to its close proximity to the main train station, the Europacity is connected to long-distance, regional and local transport in the southern part, while the construction of an S-Bahn station at Perleberger Brücke is planned for the northern part as part of the S21 S-Bahn project .
literature
- In conversation with Thomas Bergander , the founder of Taureon Real Estate Consulting GmbH. In: Berliner Zeitung , December 15, 2019 (print edition), p. 11 / real estate supplement.
Web links
- Project website
- Senate Department for Urban Development to Europacity
- Photo documentation about the construction of the Eurocity
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simulation of Europacity. Retrieved June 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Information from the interview with Thomas Bergander .
- ↑ Heidestrasse in Berlin-Mitte is released again. rbb-online.de, July 4, 2016, archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on September 3, 2016 .
- ^ Nikolaus Bernau: Model for apartment construction . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 19, 2018, p. 10.
- ^ Monnet 4 - Berlin
- ↑ Isabell Jürgens: Another high-rise planned in the Europacity. December 12, 2018, accessed on December 13, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Lehrter city quarter. In: Berliner Morgenpost . May 14, 2017. Retrieved November 4, 2018 .
- ^ Model of the Unger design .
- ↑ Business location center : Lehrter Stadtquartier ( Memento from February 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 202 kB).