ThyssenKrupp house
The ThyssenKrupp House was a planned building at Schloßplatz 2 in the Mitte district of Berlin . Due to the sharp public criticism, ThyssenKrupp decided not to build the new building in 2012.
History and conception
The client was supposed to be the industrial company ThyssenKrupp . Due to its proximity to the Berlin City Palace (designed by Franco Stella ), the Bauakademie and the Foreign Office , the ThyssenKrupp House would have been built in one of the most prominent and therefore architecturally most demanding building sites. The line of sight to the State Council building would have had additional urban planning effects.
After the renovation of the street " An der Stechbahn " in 1866 and the demolition of the Neue Stechbahn by 1867, the "Red Castle", also called "Red Castle", was built at the intended location . The four-storey residential and commercial building owes its name - located by the castle - to the resemblance to the Red Town Hall . The Castan brothers opened the first Berlin Panoptikum here , but shortly afterwards it moved to the Kaisergalerie in Friedrichstrasse . As early as 1936, parts of the “Red Palace” were lowered, so that the central building had to be torn down. The house was largely destroyed during the Second World War , and the ruins were torn down during the GDR era.
The State Monument Council of the City of Berlin spoke out in 2004 against a possible development. The State Council building would be limited in its effect and a new building would not fit into the city interior. The then Berlin Senator for Science, Research and Culture Thomas Flierl criticized in 2007 that not only an important architectural monument of the GDR would be impaired and that the planning law basis for the construction would be missing. The city development administration, however, insisted on its position that the inner city plan by Hans Stimmann would provide for a new building at this point. The State of Berlin therefore sold part of the Schlossplatz to the ThyssenKrupp group, which wanted to set up its capital city representative office there. Allegations were made that ThyssenKrupp had received the property too much on favorable terms. ThyssenKrupp is said to have acquired the 737 square meters on Germany's most prominent building site for just € 3,766.07 (plus the cost of building the building). It was also criticized that the property was awarded individually without a public tender. A public bidding process did not take place.
ThyssenKrupp held an architectural competition. Architects from all over the world took part in the competition. Prominent participants included David Adjaye , Gert Wingårdh , Kaspar Kraemer , Degelo Architekten , Grüntuch Ernst and Chaix & Morel et associeés . The architecture firm Schweger & Partner emerged as the winner of the competition in 2011; the winning design provided for a glass cube. Due to the sharp public criticism, ThyssenKrupp decided not to build the new building in 2012 after a “top-level discussion” with Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ New cube building: Thyssen-Krupp gives up In: Der Tagesspiegel of June 27, 2012
- ^ Resolutions of the State Monument Council Berlin. ITEM 2: State Council building. April 20, 2004.
- ↑ Thyssen-Krupp representative office lacks planning law basis. Press release. on: linkspartei-friedrichshain-kreuzberg.de , June 7, 2007.
- ^ Flierl against Thyssen at the castle. In: Der Tagesspiegel. June 10, 2007.
- ↑ Schlossplatz as a bargain. In: Berliner Morgenpost. June 10, 2008.
- ↑ Berliner Schlossplatz as a bargain. In: The world. June 4, 2007.
- ^ Even the supervisory board was clueless. In: Der Tagesspiegel. June 12, 2007.
- ↑ Lt. ThyssenKrupp ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Schweger & Partner build for ThyssenKrupp. In: German construction magazine.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 56.7 " N , 13 ° 24 ′ 1.7" E