Leipziger Straße Berlin

With its matte polished façade, the office building on Leipziger Strasse is a bright accent in a neighbourhood characterized by uniform neoclassical façades, and is reminiscent of Hans Scharoun’s architectural works at the nearby Kulturforum. As a dynamic reinterpretation of the traditional façade arrangement, the building opens toward the city with its one-storey glass façade. Above the arcade passageway, the perforated stainless steel slats lend the smooth skin of the glass façade a plastic depth. The versatile colour of the vertical slats and their reflections generate differentiated space/light situations that, responding to the movements of the slats and the course of the sun, create new perspectives and constant changes in the appearance of the façade.