BERLIN - the update thread - Page 40

Tolbert · #**781** Posted **Aug 24, 2010, 11:06 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by vanman

This is off topic but does anyone know about an awesome aerial video called "Above Germany" (or something to that effect) ? It was posted somewhere on SSP. If so could you provide a link?

Yes, i posted them here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=182126

khazars · #**782** Posted **Sep 6, 2010, 12:18 PM**

New hotel by holiday inn planned for the Alexanderplatz area on Voltaire/Schickler str at Alexanderstrasse south!

translation using altavista!

New Holiday Inn express hotel at the Alexanderplatz In the surrounding field of the Alexanderplatzes a new Holiday Inn express hotel develops. The 240-Zimmer-Haus of the 3-Sterne-Kategorie is established on a property between volt air route and Schicklerstraße, fallow-lying at present. The opening is planned for the 2nd quarter 2012. " The situation between the rapid-transit railway yards Alexanderplatz and Jannowitzbrücke is ideal for the Tourismus" in the city; , Martin Bowen, director of development explains with the Intercontinental hotels Group. The Alexanderplatz lies scarcely 500 meters far away, the southern entrance of the Shopping Mall Alexa faces directly. Property owner is that the WGF Westfäli landed property and department of finance AG, which together with the future operator, who Foremost Group, which signed a lease over 20 years, which will develop new hotel. On that 2,500 m ² large property will develop for 10,300 m ² gross floor area. The commencement of construction is intended for February 2011. For architecture that is responsible Hamburg planning offices MPP Meding plan project. As a general purchaser the WGF daughter Ilse building and planning GmbH functions. The investment project is extra pay-entitled after the InvZulG 2010. Foremost plans further 20 locations in Germany until 2016. " Germany is an important hotel market. Also 3-Sterne-Hotels develop from here from to international Marken." , so Usama Dessoky, Chairman of the Londoner Foremost Leisure Ltd. Up-to-date the WGF uses Frankfurt office buildings into a hotel over [we reported]. For the future Holiday Inn express Frankfurt town center main station is Foremost of the tenants.

http://www.propercity-berlin.de/galerie/29037/21372/

PHX31 · #**783** Posted **Sep 7, 2010, 10:43 PM**

When do trees in Germany start getting leaves again?

If we came to Berlin in April, would there be leaves on the trees? What about in Munich/Munchen?

Tolbert · #**784** Posted **Sep 8, 2010, 7:01 AM**

Depends on temeratures, when its getting warm early in the year it starts on march, but normaly on the middle of April the leaves are back.
In southwest the trees are a few weeks earlier because of the micro climate.

khazars · #**785** Posted **Sep 8, 2010, 12:36 PM**

Looks like ground work has started at Alexander parkside, construction of two hotels and a hostel!

See posts 764-766

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ghlight=berlin

Pic by Petermännchen @

http://www.deutsches-architektur-for...?t=8965&page=3
http://img217.imageshack.us/i/dsc0275n.jpg/

http://img217.imageshack.us/f/dsc0275n.jpg/

@ PHX31, trees will start coming into bloom from March-June depending on the specie of tree!

khazars · #**786** Posted **Sep 13, 2010, 11:54 AM**

it appears Leipzigerplatz is to start construction on 1st December 2010 as the problems have now been resolved?

https://www.thomas-daily.de/news/mor...kmg30m9NC17kSs

translation using yahoo.

Berlin: Kind of building to value home area on 1 December On the last large fallow land at the Leipziger soon the excavators are to roll place in Berlin-Mitte. Investor Harald G. Huth announced the commencement of construction for his to 450 millions euros expensive project to the value home area for 1 December. The Vorvermietungsstand is appropriate for its data according to with 70%. A new building complex with 152.000 m is planned ² BGF. Are integrated Shoppingcenter with 200 shops, one hotel as well as 170 dwellings. The completion is to take place in the spring/summer 2013. With the execution is assigned the citizens of Berlin BSS GmbH. Huth had taken over that about 2 has large area at the Leipziger place at the end of of 2009 of Orco Germany.

I'll also have a big update in a few weeks!

jvbahn · #**787** Posted **Sep 20, 2010, 8:01 PM**

Hey PHX31,

There should be leaves on the trees by mid-April. You're coming from Phoenix, I grew up there, but have been living in Berlin for 4 years now. If you need tips on where to go, let me know.

khazars · #**788** Posted **Sep 29, 2010, 3:13 PM**

Here's the update!

All pics by khaz taken between August 24 2010 and September 2nd.

New builds Pappel allee

Gartenstrasse

Nordbahnhof Carree.

100 Friedrichstrasse.

Pergamon Palais.

Hackescher Markt.

Neue Promenade

Konigstadt Carree.

Parkpalais Am Fridrichshain

Senefelderplatz. Schonhauser allee.

The bunker. Schonhauser Tor

Soho building. Prenzlauer Tor

H2O/Ramada hotels. Karl Liebknecht strasse.

Richard Sorge Strasse.

Townhouses at the back.

BND Chausee strasse!

New builds on Chausee.

Rosenthalerplatz. All seasons hotel.

Martashof.

Bernauer strasse! Various projects.

Ruppiner und Schönholzer Str

Oko lofts. Brunnen str/schonholzer str.

Spittelmarkt/Leipziger str. Motel one.

I'll post more later, many more to come!

Tolbert · #**789** Posted **Sep 29, 2010, 6:37 PM**

Great! Thank you

khazars · #**790** Posted **Sep 30, 2010, 12:29 PM**

Here's some more!

Spittelmarkt area.

multiple projects. Seydel, E mara, Beuth, Alte and Neu
Jakob, Wall, Kommandant and Neue Grun strasse.

Hotel Titanic. E Mara str. Many others are on Neue Grun and E mara str.

Neue Grun strasse, New builds and recent ones.

Looks like new build on Wall str.

Neue Grun str. recent builds.

Townhouses Neue Grun Str.

Seydel str/Neue Grun str.These started last year.

recent build?

Alte Jakob str?

Projects still awaiting construction. Kommandanten str/Alte Jakob.

new build Alte Jakob str.

This area is Alte Jakob leading to Annen str, new and recent builds?

New builds Heinrich Heine str.

Dresdener str.

Waldemar/Dresdener str.

Another project next door awaiting a start date!

Leuschnerdamm.

Looking onto Dresdener str.

New build at Moritzplatz! Anyone know what it is?

I'll do some more next week!

tdurden5573 · #**791** Posted **Oct 5, 2010, 5:28 PM**

Great update, nice to see some of the empty lots being filled in, especially around Mitte. Very modernist feel to almost all the new buildings.

I know in recent years the demand for inner city apartments was weaker than supply with all the people moving to the suburbs, has this changed? How can there be so much construction without a heavy demand for inner city commercial/residential space? What percentage of this construction is state funded/subsidized?

Vielen Dank!

Kingofthehill · #**792** Posted **Oct 5, 2010, 10:11 PM**

Now THAT'S how infill is done! Not the embarrassing crap that goes up most of the time in American cities. Thanks for the mega updates!

Tolbert · #**793** Posted **Oct 7, 2010, 11:49 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by tdurden5573

Great update, nice to see some of the empty lots being filled in, especially around Mitte. Very modernist feel to almost all the new buildings.

I know in recent years the demand for inner city apartments was weaker than supply with all the people moving to the suburbs, has this changed? How can there be so much construction without a heavy demand for inner city commercial/residential space? What percentage of this construction is state funded/subsidized?

Vielen Dank!

In fact its quite different. Demand for inner city residential is growing for years now. So most of the developements are of speculative nature in the luxus segment. Especially in Berlin.

pentes · #**794** Posted **Oct 12, 2010, 1:24 PM**

Thanks for the updates!

jvbahn · #**795** Posted **Oct 18, 2010, 5:49 AM**

The new construction on Moritzplatz is a building that will house space for artists and their galleries/workshops. It will be a combined living-work space and something fairly new to Berlin.

http://www.clarkeundkuhn.de/deutsch/...fbau-haus.html

Hope you enjoyed your time in Berlin!

To reply to a previous comment about the need for housing: Since 2000 the city believed that the Berlin wouldn't grow, therefore no new housing projects were developed. For about 5 years, Berlin is registering rapid growth in many sectors as companies and government relocate here. Also, Berlin has become a magnet for young people from Europe. As such, the city now is booming in many areas of construction, as it plays catch-up to make up for the lack of construction in the early part of the decade.

tdurden5573 · #**796** Posted **Nov 4, 2010, 3:43 PM**

Very interesting, thanks for the clarification. The data I was looking at had the inner city population shrinking, but I know it was older data (circa 2004). Every time I go to Berlin I'm amazed at the fewer number of empty lots.

I think 'lack of construction' is relative, since 2000 Berlin has seen expansive construction and infrastructure upgrades, but i know what you mean. Berlin is such a dynamic city.

khazars · #**797** Posted **Jan 9, 2011, 12:52 PM**

More updates from summer 2010! All photos by khaz, see above

Linien str/ rucker str area.

Choriner hofe.

Potsdamerplatz.

Zoofenster.

Quarter Muhlenberg. Saarbrucker str Prenzlberg.

http://www.quartier-muehlenberg.de/r01/de/index.php

http://www.deutsches-architektur-for...ead.php?t=8545

Ostkreuz.

Baumschulenweg S-bahn.

Osthafen NHow hotel!

khazars · #**798** Posted **Jan 28, 2011, 9:05 PM**

Leipzigerplatz has sarted construction with the cutting of the spade!

Translation using babel fish.

900 workers are to finish at present largest citizens of Berlin the building project to 2013. The enormous purchase center is to become twice as large like the arcades at the Potsdamer place, with 50,000 square meters of sales area, approximately 200 business and a 7000 square meters large hotel of the operator motel One

http://www.immobilien-zeitung.de/100...eipziger-platz

http://leipzigerplatz.hghi.de/

http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/ba...t/3775410.html

khazars · #**799** Posted **Feb 17, 2011, 12:11 PM**

Another new hotel planned at Hauptbahnhof by Vivico. 410 rooms.
Construction to start in 3rd quarter 2011.

http://www.immobilien-zeitung.de/100...r-hauptbahnhof

http://www.morgenpost.de/berlin-aktu...el-gebaut.html

Swede · #**800** Posted **Feb 17, 2011, 12:48 PM**

^Wow, that's pretty boring-looking. Almost modern Swedish boring. Most of the other stuff you've posted here does look nice tho

What's the work being done at the S-Bahn station?