Berlin, 2022
Photo © Klemens Renner

Stralauer Platz is a historically evolved town square in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg between Ostbahnhof and the north bank of the Spree.

Photo © Klemens Renner

A two-part building complex was planned as the new development, consisting of an eight-storey hotel in the eastern section and a seven-storey office building in the western section with a shared two-storey underground car park. In the area of the hotel, at the boundary to the office building, the complex is interrupted by a two-storey, 12-metre-wide "Spree window", which serves as a visual axis.

Photo © Klemens Renner

The cubature of the buildings blends harmoniously into the listed, historic urban fabric and picks up the eaves height of the surrounding buildings to scale.

Photo © Klemens Renner

The façade of the hotel is divided into alternating window fields, each with two windows separated by clinker bricks with matt pastel and iridescent colour patterns.

Photo © Klemens Renner

The façade of the office section in the opposite direction is vertically structured by continuous bands of clinker brick in a red-brown colour pattern. Horizontal clinker brick strips in every second storey suggest that the office floors are two storeys high. The regular arrangement of the almost square window fields gives the façade a calm, spacious character and echoes the design of industrial lofts.

Photo © Roland Halbe
Photo © Klemens Renner
Photo © Klemens Renner
Photo © Klemens Renner
Photo © Ilya Ivanov
Photo © Ilya Ivanov
Photo © Ilya Ivanov
Photo © Ilya Ivanov
Photo © Ilya Ivanov