Info box
The info box (the spellings were also properties box, info box or properties box ) was an exhibition pavilion at Leipziger Platz in Berlin district of Mitte , which existed from 1995 to 2001. The building's task was to document the construction work around Potsdamer Platz to visitors . The visitors could follow the progress of the work and look at models of the future buildings.
construction
The infobox was designed by the Frankfurt architects Schneider + Schumacher , it was executed as the first new building in the area of Potsdamer Platz near the former Berlin Wall . Construction began at the beginning of June 1995 and took around three months, the subsequent expansion took six weeks. The info box had the shape of a cuboid (62.5 m × 15 m × 15 m), which was clad with red painted steel plates and was held up about eight meters above the top of the site on inclined supports . The interior consisted of three floors with exhibition and lecture rooms as well as a café . The flat roof at a height of 23 meters also served as a viewing terrace. Two outside stairs led into the building interior and onto the terrace.
The pavilion, built as a light steel structure, was intended as a temporary structure from the start and had to give way to a construction site as construction progressed on Leipziger Platz. A small observation tower was built in front of the architects' office in Frankfurt am Main from some preserved parts.
A total of 300 of the typical cladding panels were individually numbered and auctioned after dismantling.
Awards
The Infobox has won the following prizes:
- Steel construction award, 1996
- Architecture Prize Berlin, 1996
Web links
- Info box. In: arch INFORM .
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 34 " N , 13 ° 22 ′ 41" E