Kollhoff & Timmermann   Germany   Immortalized movies many times, the luxury residential skyscraper – which was so popular in the United States during the 1930s – barely finds equivalents in Europe, where in many places high-rise housing is synonymous with low-cost dwelling and socia

Kollhoff & Timmermann   Germany   In the berliner quarter of Charlottenburg, Italy has sneeked into the heart of Prussia. Unlike the tradition that from the 18th century flooded northern Germany of Schmückplätze, or squares adorned with landscaped centers, the Walter Benjamin Platz o

Kollhoff & Timmermann   Germany   The process of public exhibition and open discussion of the proposals submitted in the first phase of the Alexanderplatz competition led to important modifications in the surface area, program and planning criteria, which were incorporated into the b

Kollhoff & Timmermann   Germany   The A1 office tower, developed by Hans Kollhoff, corresponds to the northern corner of the Daimler Benz area, bounded by the main axis and the southern axis of the Potsdamer Platz trident, facing the square itself, and forms, together with the corres

An important hub of traffic and activities, Alexanderplatz was the nerve center and engine of the city during the first decades of this century and until World War II. Its reduction to rubble during the war offered it the opportunity for a second bir