Park Inn by Radisson Berlin Alexanderplatz
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| Park Inn by Radisson Berlin Alexanderplatz | |
| Basic data | |
| Place: | Berlin |
| Construction time : | 1967-1970 |
| Opening: | October 7, 1970 |
| Architectural style : | Later international style |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | hotel |
| Room : | 1028 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height : | 125.0 m |
| Height to the top: | 150.0 m |
| Floors : | 37 |
| Height comparison | |
| Berlin : | 2. ( list ) |
| Germany : | 34. ( list ) |
| address | |
| City: | Berlin |
| Country: | Germany |
The Park Inn Berlin is a 125 meter tall hotel building at the Alexanderplatz in Berlin district center of the district of the same . It is the second tallest building in Berlin (as of July 2014). In Germany, it ranks 34th in terms of its structural height . The former Panorama International restaurant on the 37th floor housed a casino for a long time - the highest in Europe. On the roof there is a publicly accessible viewing terrace with a view to the south (towards the television tower ).
history
The hotel is located in the northeast of the square and is an integral part of the redesign of Alexanderplatz that was carried out from 1964 to 1970. However, this did not envisage the later realized high-rise building with a rectangular base in the north of the building area, but one with a square base in the south. The designs for the hotel were provided by the collective Roland Korn , Heinz Scharlipp and Hans Erich Bogatzky and they were realized between 1967 and 1970.
The hotel was opened on October 7, 1970, the 21st anniversary of the founding of the GDR, as Interhotel Stadt Berlin with 1982 beds in 1006 rooms. The foundation stone of the hotel was laid on June 24, 1967, where previously the route of Memhardtstrasse ran roughly. The 39-storey house consisted of a three-storey low-rise building (148 meters long, 50 meters wide and 13.5 meters high) and a tall structure (123.23 meters high, 49.7 meters long and 24.2 meters wide). When it opened, the hotel employed around 1,000 people. In addition to the usual service facilities such as a hairdresser, sales point for travel needs, etc., the house also offered a car service with a workshop and washing facility.
It was a four-star hotel that preferred to accommodate delegations from the Warsaw Pact states . At the time, the fast elevators were remarkable. After the political change it became the Forum Hotel . The owners had the building gradually renovated in the 1990s. Most recently, from 2001 onwards, all rooms were redesigned for the equivalent of around 20 million euros . Since 2003 the hotel has been called Park Inn by Radisson Berlin Alexanderplatz , operated by the Rezidor Hotel Group . Currently (June 2019) the hotel has 1,028 rooms and suites. With 36.1 million euros in 2015 it was ranked 10th among the hotels with the highest turnover in Germany and 5th in Berlin.
From May to November 2005 the 15,000 m² glass facade in front of the windows was renewed. The new mirrored 6,800 facade elements cost around three million euros. In October 2006, two 35-meter-high antenna masts were installed on the roof. Thus, the height including the superstructure is 149.5 meters. The high-rise is the second-tallest hotel building in Germany and is also the third-largest hotel in Germany (as of September 2019).
In December 2006, the American Blackstone Group acquired the Hotel Stadt Berlin Grundstücks GmbH including the associated land.
architecture
The low building
The 15-meter-high, three-storey building that surrounds the high-rise building offers space for a number of dining facilities such as a Burger King restaurant and an ice cream parlor as well as some smaller shops. At the opening there was the Zille-Stube, popular with Berliners .
The three-story low-rise building, 148 meters by 50 meters, is designed on the ground floor with shop window glass and white concrete structural elements.
From 1994 onwards there was a branch of the electronics retail chain Saturn on the ground floor and in the basement , which moved in March 2009 to the newly built die mitte commercial building in the immediate vicinity . The retail space that has become vacant has been used by the Irish clothing store Primark since 2014 .
The ward block
The high-rise bed building was built using sliding construction technology and had a rectangular floor plan of around 25 meters × 50 meters. Around 10,000 m³ of concrete and 1,300 tons of reinforcing steel were used for the 108-meter-high sliding section. The sliding body was clad with a curtain wall made of steel-aluminum-wood parts.
A hotel entrance is located on the southeast side of the high-rise building with the address Alexanderstraße, a second entrance is directly in the pedestrian zone of Alexanderplatz. The ground floor houses the reception and the dining rooms, which are surrounded by the kitchen wing. The northern area is reserved for the technical systems. On the first floor there are further restaurants as well as party and conference rooms.
The 38-storey ward block contains 30 bed floors, ten of which are grouped together. Eight floors are reserved for the necessary installations and storage space. The rooms have two central corridors. Each hotel room has a bathroom and a small anteroom. The front sides of the building contain emergency exits to the emergency stairwells. At the very top there is a public viewing terrace (for a fee).
A special feature of the facade is the facade glazing, which becomes lighter and lighter at the top - from the bottom dark blue to the top light blue.
A five-storey garage (including one basement) with 192 parking spaces, which could be reached from Alexanderstraße, adjoins the ward block to the northwest.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Park Inn Berlin Alexanderplatz at CTBUH
- ↑ Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-I . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 261 f .
- ↑ The magic of 1000 rooms . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 7, 2010
- ↑ a b c d Selected examples of hotel buildings in Berlin between 1950 and 1979 ( Memento from June 21, 2011 in the web archive archive.today ) “Weiterbauen '70” on the seventies.laufwerk-b.de; Retrieved January 15, 2013
- ↑ Hotel overview & surroundings. Accessed June 17, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Guests and investors fly to German hotels . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 20, 2016, p. 22.
- ^ Blackstone Group - Development Block D1-D3. ( Memento from January 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development, accessed on March 25, 2009
- ↑ The Zillestube is now back on the Alex. Hotel restaurant with door to the department store. In: Berliner Zeitung , August 30, 1994
- ↑ Primark at Alexanderplatz: opening on July 3, 2014 . From: berlin.de , accessed on July 21, 2014
- ^ J. Braun, G. Forner, S. Röhling: Rationelle Schaltechnik , Vol. 2 (Sliding formwork), VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin, 1978, p. 124
- ↑ Viewing terrace in the Park Inn by Radisson Berlin Hotel Alexanderplatz. Accessed June 17, 2019 (German).
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 22 " N , 13 ° 24 ′ 46" E