The Ritz-Carlton Berlin
The Ritz-Carlton Berlin at Potsdamer Platz 3 in Berlin 's Tiergarten district is one of the most luxurious hotels in the city. On April 19, 2002, the foundation stone was laid for the Art Deco- style Grand Hotel in the area of the former Lenné triangle . About a year and a half later, the hotel opened on January 11, 2004 with 303 rooms, including 40 suites . After the Ritz-Carlton Wolfsburg, it is the second hotel in the Ritz-Carlton hotel chain in Germany. The hotel has been managed by the Austrian Robert Petrović as General Manager since May 2009 . The skyscraper has 19 floors and is 70 meters high.
The hotel complex
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The architects Heinz Hilmer and Christoph Sattler see the luxury hotel , which is part of the newly created Beisheim-Center , as a “contemporary interpretation of the European city with blocks, streets and squares”. The architecture pays homage to the “ Roaring Twenties ” in the United States , when Art Deco- style houses had their heyday.
The building on Potsdamer Platz includes the Brasserie Desbrosses , the Curtain Club and a large ballroom that can accommodate up to 850 people.
The hotel was built around 20 meters from the former Berlin Wall (this is where the historic excise wall ran in the 18th and 19th centuries ), in one of the most important places in recent Berlin history, near the government district , the Brandenburg Gate and the Berlin Philharmonic .
The Tower Apartments are located above the hotel complex . The infrastructures of the Ritz-Carlton are available for the residents and tenants of the entire Beisheim-Center. This section of the center was built by the architectural office Hilmer & Sattler and Albrecht from Berlin and the interior design office Hotel Interior Design designed by Peter Silling from Cologne . The architectural style is intended to be reminiscent of the office buildings and the first skyscrapers of the Chicago school . The adjoining office tower is formally based on the First Leiter Building in Chicago by William Le Baron Jenney from 1879. An important and desired motif of the architects is the color difference between the pillars and parapets and the gray capitals made of precast concrete .
Brasserie Desbrosses
The French brasserie Desbrosses from 1875 was dismantled and restored in the small town of Mâcon in southern Burgundy at the beginning of 2003 , and then reopened in the hotel. The original furniture has been completed, including chairs and mirrors. Stone tiles with a floral decor, hand-painted wall panels and dark parquet floors create an atmospheric ambience.
The Curtain Club
The bar The Curtain Club is a meeting place for discussion groups with 60 seats. It was created in the style of a British gentlemen's club: every evening at 6 p.m. sharp, the curtains open, announced and celebrated by a liveried beefeater - this is the original name for the guards at the London Tower .
Wellness area
The interior design of the wellness area was done with artistic marble inlay , stained glass and gold mosaics as well as a hand-painted ceiling in a trompe-l'œil technique with integrated crystals .
literature
- Klaus J. Philipp: Hilmer & Sattler and Albrecht, Buildings and Projects / buildings and projects , Edition Axel Menges ; Bilingual (2004), ISBN 3932565398 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Magnificence in constant rain. In: Der Tagesspiegel , January 12, 2004
- ↑ Brasserie Desbrosses
- ^ The Curtain Club
- ↑ La Prairie Boutique Spa at The Ritz-Carlton, Berlin ( Memento from September 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 37 ″ N , 13 ° 22 ′ 31 ″ E