Ku'damm-Eck

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Ku'damm-Eck, 2009

The Ku'damm-Eck is a commercial building in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg , which was designed between 1998 and 2001 according to plans by the architects Gerkan, Marg and Partner (gmp) and built on the corner of Kurfürstendamm / Joachimsthaler Straße / Augsburger Straße . The old Ku'damm-Eck, which was demolished in 1998, stood in the same place .

It is a ten-storey 45 meter high building with a central cylinder structure over a lower, undulating base. On the protruding rounded corner of the base, the sculpture ensemble The Judgment of Paris by Markus Lüpertz was set up. The building now houses branches of the clothing store C&A and the hotel chain Swissôtel .

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 13.1 ″  N , 13 ° 19 ′ 53.7 ″  E