MetaHaus
The MetaHaus is a listed building in Berlin-Charlottenburg at Leibnizstrasse 65 and Niebuhrstrasse.
The building was erected in 1928/29 by Hans Heinrich Müller as a decentralized substation for the power supply in the Charlottenburg district using a steel frame construction with a red clinker brick facade . Substations and substations were used to transform alternating current . It is a typical example of the Bewag industrial architecture of the 1920s.
An extension was added in 1951–53, and in 1984 the plant was shut down.
Between 1999 and 2001 the house was converted into a design center by the architects Petra and Paul Kahlfeldt . The inner courtyard was provided with a shed roof. The MetaDesign GmbH design agency has had its headquarters here since 2001 . It was founded in 1979 by Gerhard Doerrié, Florian Fischer, Dieter Heil and Erik Spiekermann in Berlin. 1991 Spiekermann has the digital font FF Meta developed long time typeface was MetaDesign.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 16.7 " N , 13 ° 18 ′ 47.6" E