Berlin, 2022
Photo © Klemens Renner

The high-rise office building at Ernst-Reuter-Platz 6 in Berlin-Charlottenburg was built from 1973 to 1974 as a new steel-frame building for the main post office 2 according to a design by architect Bernhard Binder.

Photo (before revitalisation) © Lev Chestakov
Photo © Klemens Renner

Together with the other buildings at the Ernst-Reuter-Platz transport hub, the sculptural, cubic high-rise forms a significant, listed urban ensemble for Berlin, but is not itself classified as an individual monument. This means that the building could theoretically have been given a completely new appearance. However, the architects made a conscious decision to preserve the architectural language of the 1970s, which is so important for Berlin, especially in this location.

Photo © Klemens Renner
Photo © Klemens Renner

Now the building, precisely and clearly emphasised, can once again assume its important urban role in the overall ensemble of Ernst-Reuter-Platz and, together with the former Telefunken high-rise opposite to the north, forms the prelude to Bismarckstrasse leading to the west.

Photo © Klemens Renner