Berlin, 2016
Photo © Werner Huthmacher

The new five-storey high residential building is part of a vivid and varied cultural area in Berlin’s Mitte district, impressively presenting itself with three open façades and a penthouse.

Photo © Werner Huthmacher

The plot is adjacent to a green square dominated by a fountain with a stone sculpture by Ernst Wenck. Square-edged but self-contained in shape the volume is emphasized by an elaborate façade design: beige bricks burnt in a circular kiln were chosen for the surface cladding together with a strongly graphical though irregular structure of massive elements of white architectural concrete.

Photo © René Hoch
Photo © Werner Huthmacher

The windows in different sizes and upright as well as landscape formats are absorbing and reflecting the heterogeneous character of the neighbourhood.

Photo © Werner Huthmacher
Photo © Werner Huthmacher
Photo © Werner Huthmacher