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General Information

Completion: 1998
Status: in use

Project Type

Function / usage: Office building

Location

Location: , , ,
Address: An den Treptowers
Coordinates: 52° 29' 43" N    13° 27' 42" E
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Technical Information

Dimensions

height 125 m
number of floors (above ground) 32

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Treptowers is a complex of buildings with a distinctive high-rise in the Alt-Treptow district of Berlin, Germany. Completed in 1998, the complex is located on the Spree River. The name "Treptowers" is a portmanteau word from Treptow and the English word "tower."

Genesis and architecture

The Treptowers complex consists of four buildings and is the result of an architectural competition held in 1993 and won by the architect Gerhard Spangenberg. The detailed planning and building was carried out by a partnership of architects Schweger and Reichel + Stauth from Brunswick. Roland Ernst joined Urban GmbH & Co. as project developer and overseer of construction. The final construction cost totaled 500 million euros.

The buildings were constructed on the site of a former electrical appliance factory complex, which was built in 1926 by AEG. After World War II, the plant was expropriated by VEB Elektro-Apparate-Werke Berlin-Treptow, a state-owned company in the German Democratic Republic, and production continued until 1995.

The buildings have a square floor plan with a steel and glass facade, though portions of each building have stone facades to create a unified architectural look with neighboring buildings. At 125 meters, Treptowers is the tallest office building in Berlin and the same height as the Park Inn.

The 30 meter high sculpture Molecule Man by Jonathan Borofsky sits in front of Treptowers in the River Spree. The sculpture's three figures represent the three Berlin districts of Treptow, Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain. Treptowers also houses a permanent exhibition of 500 works by contemporary artists.

The Federal Criminal Police Office has a branch inside the building.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Treptowers" and modified on 23 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

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  • Structure-ID
    20025628
  • Published on:
    08/12/2006
  • Last updated on:
    13/08/2020
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