Located in Berlin’s Schöneberg neighborhood, this new construction mends an urban fabric that has needed repairing since the 1990s, rising, as it does, beside a heretofore lone office building – the Platinum, a work of the architect Jürgen Sawade – and fusing with it to form an altogether new composition. The new building presents a 5-floor base, but keeps rising on its north and south, in symmetry, each ‘overgrowth’ reaching 11 floors and then lowering towards the middle every 2, in steps, back to 5 floors. The uniform facade of brick and light tones gives it a sculptural character. This aesthetic and tactile treatment of the exterior is executed with details that arise from its structural function, excluding redundant decorations. The deep-set windows create a play of lights and shadows in a regular rhythmic repetition of vertical and horizontal bands.