Ludwig Erhard House
The Ludwig-Erhard-Haus (LEH) is located in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg on Fasanenstrasse , not far from the Zoologischer Garten train station and thus in City West . The retail trade was designed from 1994 to 1997 by the British team of architects Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners. The construction was carried out by a consortium consisting of Friedrich Krupp AG and Max Bögl . The house was inaugurated on September 21, 1998.
A total of 15 elliptical arches, up to 38.6 meters high and 61.2 meters wide, form the basic structure of the building. According to the team of architects , the high-swinging steel arches, the paw-like supports and the “ scaly ” facade are intended to imitate an armadillo . From an “internal street” you can see the trading floor. With its idiosyncratic steel and glass construction, it is one of the city's architectural sights. The nine upper floors hang from the arches, which made it possible to build a column-free ground floor. Each arch has a different construction height and span and has a welded steel box girder cross-section with a width of 0.8 meters and a construction height of 0.8 meters at the transom and 2.1 meters at the apex . Two building-high atriums direct daylight into the interior and, with double-layer glass facades and controllable sun protection louvres , the interior climate can be controlled in an ecologically favorable manner, both in winter and in summer . The six panorama lifts are another architectural feature.
The Berlin Chamber of Commerce and Industry and other regional economic institutions have their headquarters in Ludwig-Erhard-Haus , including the Capital Marketing and Economic Development Agency Berlin Partner for Business and Technology , the Association of Berlin Merchants and Industrialists and the Berlin Stock Exchange . In 2018, the IHK Berlin bought the Ludwig-Erhard-Haus for 26.5 million euros from the real estate fund and is now the sole owner.
The building is named after Ludwig Erhard , the first Minister of Economics of the Federal Republic of Germany and later Federal Chancellor , who was considered the "father" of the social market economy and the economic miracle after the Second World War .
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- ↑ Armadillo made of steel and glass ( Memento from December 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Saving millions through real estate purchase. In: Der Tagesspiegel , January 12, 2018, accessed on January 13, 2018.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 24 ″ N , 13 ° 19 ′ 42 ″ E