Upper Eastside Berlin

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The Upper Eastside Berlin (2010)
Aerial perspective (computer graphics)

The Upper Eastside Berlin is an eleven-storey building complex with an area of ​​58,000 m² for offices, retail and apartments on the corner of Friedrichstrasse and Unter den Linden . The new building is based on the traditional facades in the style of the boulevard of the 1880s. The name was chosen based on the neighborhood in New York City .

The new building was officially opened on October 23, 2008.

history

The " Hotel Victoria " was opened on the site in 1859 and belonged to a descendant of the first owner, Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765–1812). The Victoria Hotel-Café was added later and shaped the street corner for decades and made it a prominent point of contact for tourists. Friedrichstrasse station was opened in 1882 . Many hotels and amusement facilities have settled in the vicinity of the station. On a “fine day” (March 13, 1891), 120,000 pedestrians and 13,100 cars were counted at the intersection of Unter den Linden and Friedrichstrasse within 16 hours.

On February 3, 1945, a bombing raid left an area about halfway destroyed. As a result of the GDR planning for the city center from 1961/62, which envisaged an expansion of Friedrichstrasse as a pedestrian zone to 60 meters wide, an eight-story prefabricated building, the hotel, was built between 1964 and 1966 according to a design by the architects Boy, Riechert, Scharlipp and Vieroth Under the linden trees . Since the restaurant complex “ Lindencorso ” was completed on the opposite side of the street and the expansion project was canceled at the same time, a square was unintentionally created at the intersection of Unter den Linden and Friedrichstrasse. In 1993, with the demolition of the Lindencorso and the completion of a new building in 1997, the renovation to the historic street layout began. In the spring of 2006 the hotel "Unter den Linden" was also demolished.

  • Friedrichstrasse / Unter den Linden in 1898

  • Friedrichstrasse / Unter den Linden around 1937

  • Hotel Unter den Linden in 1993

  • The change

  • Groundbreaking in July 2006

  • The topping-out ceremony in May 2008

  • The UEB in the evening (illustration)

building

Construction information

The Upper Eastside Berlin (building) is 76 meters long, 76 meters wide and 31 meters high. It has eleven floors, three of which are underground and eight above ground, as well as two inner courtyards on the second floor. Around 33,000 m³ of concrete and around 10,000 tons of steel were used for the construction. Around 400 workers were involved in the construction on site. Around 1,350 people work in the Upper Eastside Berlin.

Architects

The architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) emerged as winners from the multi-stage international competition for the design of the Upper Eastside Berlin . You are responsible for the overall design and implementation planning. Their design concept was supplemented by designs by Kahlfeldt Architects from Berlin and Augusto Romano Burelli from Venice. In collaboration with gmp, they created the facades of the house on Unter den Linden 14 (Kahlfeldt) and the house on Mittelstraße 62 (Burelli).

Construction stages

On March 1, 2006, construction of the Upper Eastside Berlin began. The building complex has restored the historical floor plan as it existed until 1945. In July 2006, the governing mayor, Klaus Wowereit, broke the first sod and construction work began. The symbolic laying of the foundation stone took place in September 2007. In the presence of the Senator for Urban Development, Ingeborg Junge-Reyer , the topping-out wreath was raised in May 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the damage plan of the "planning collective" , printed in Johann Friedrich Geist , Klaus Kürvers : Das Berliner Mietshaus 1945–1989. Prestel Verlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7913-0719-3 (= Third Part of the History of the Berlin Apartment Building ), p. 274
  2. ↑ For the planning from 1961/62 see: Hans Gericke: Berlin - Unter den Linden , in: Deutsche Bauakademie und Bund Deutscher Architekten (ed.): Deutsche Architektur , XI. Volume, Berlin, November 1962, pp. 635–640

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Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '2.2 "  N , 13 ° 23' 20.6"  E