Kreuzberg Tower

The Kreuzberg Tower by John Hejduk

The Kreuzberg Tower or Kreuzberg Tower is a residential building on the corner of Charlottenstrasse 97a and Besselstrasse in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg . The building was erected in the course of the International Building Exhibition in 1987 and is considered one of the main works.

Conception and creation

The building was designed by the American architect John Hejduk , who was one of the New York Five . The Kreuzberg Tower, along with two other buildings in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district and in Berlin-Tegel, is one of the few buildings that Hejduk has built.

The ensemble consists of a 14-storey tower in which studios are housed and two adjacent wings that function as residential buildings. The 55 apartments were occupied in 1988. Butterfly roofs were designed for the wings . The building was originally built for social housing in Berlin .

The complex of the Kreuzberg Tower is indicative of Hejduk's late designs, which, contrary to the postmodern ideas of the time, are characterized primarily by their simple geometric shapes and a color palette reduced to gray and green tones. Architecture students still frequently visit the complex with the Kreuzberg Tower today.

development

Kreuzberg Tower with wing construction

Rebuilding plans sparked controversy in 2010 . Due to petitions from architects from home and abroad such as Peter Eisenman , Daniel Libeskind , Jan Kleihues and Matthias Sauerbruch , the renovation plans were fundamentally changed.

See also

• International Building Exhibition 1987
• House at Checkpoint Charlie
• Koolhaas House at Checkpoint Charlie
• Bonjour sadness

Web links

Commons : Kreuzberg Tower  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Decision of the State Monument Council of the Berlin Senate on the requirements for the renovation of the Kreuzberg Tower (PDF; 61 kB)
• Rolf Lautenschläger: Loss of face through renovation. In: Die Tageszeitung , March 30, 2010
• Sabine Gundlach: Star architects fight for Kreuzberg tower. In: Berliner Morgenpost , March 30, 2010
• Baunetz over the building at BauNetz
• Hands off the Kreuzberg Tower at archpaper.com
• Save John Hejduk's Kreuzberg Tower at Blueprintmagazine
• John Hejduk Tower Berlin at e-architect
• Hejduk Tower at Architectuul ( Engl. )

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 18 ″  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 32.1 ″  E