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The Park Inn by Radisson Berlin Alexanderplatz is the tallest building and the eleventh-tallest structure in
The complex was built from 1967 to 1970 in the course of the redevelopment of Alexanderplatz when it was located in East Berlin. It was designed by the team of Roland Korn, Heinz Scharlipp and Hans Erich Bogatzky. However, the design as built differs in the shape and location of the tower on the lot from that envisaged in the 1964 plan for redevelopment of the square. The hotel opened as the Hotel Stadt Berlin, part of
, Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung, retrieved July 3, 2010
Official website of the Park Inn Berlin Alexanderplatz
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Berlin
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and the 29th-tallest building and tallest hotel-only building in Germany
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. The 37-floor high-rise is in the northeast of Alexanderplatz in the central Mitte district and has a height of .
History
The complex was built from 1967 to 1970 in the course of the redevelopment of Alexanderplatz when it was located in East Berlin. It was designed by the team of Roland Korn, Heinz Scharlipp and Hans Erich Bogatzky. However, the design as built differs in the shape and location of the tower on the lot from that envisaged in the 1964 plan for redevelopment of the square. The hotel opened as the Hotel Stadt Berlin, part of East Germany
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...
's Interhotel chain. It was a four-star hotel and mainly served for the accommodation of Comecon
The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (, ; English abbreviation COMECON, CMEA, CEMA, or CAME) was an economic organization from 1949 to 1991 under the leadership of the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc#List of s ...
representatives. There was a panorama restaurant on the 37th floor and unusually fast elevator
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s for the time and place.
In 1993, after German reunification, it was renamed Forum Hotel Berlin.
In 2003, Rezidor Hotel Group
Rezidor Hotel Group AB, originally SAS International Hotels A/S and then Rezidor SAS Hospitality A/S, Rezidor SAS Hospitality Group AB (publ), was a listed hotel group company. Originally founded by Scandinavian conglomerate SAS Group as a hotel ...
became the operator of the hotel, which was renamed to Park Inn Berlin-Alexanderplatz and then Park Inn by Radisson Berlin Alexanderplatz. A casino, the highest in Europe, was located in the restaurant until November 2010.
There is a public viewing platform on the roof. All the rooms were refurbished starting in 2001 at a cost of €
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20 million. Between May and November 2005 the entire façade
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was replaced; the 6,800 new mirror-glass panes cost €3 million. In October 2006, two antenna masts were erected on the roof, bringing the total height of the building to .
In December 2006 the hotel and the attached real estate parcels were acquired by Blackstone Group
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.Archiv: Alexanderplatz: Blackstone Group - Bebauung Block D1-D3, Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung, retrieved July 3, 2010
Base building
The base of the tower rises from a three-story commercial building that houses a Burger King, anice cream parlour
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, and some small stores. The top floor offers direct access to the adjacent Galeria-Kaufhof. For 15 years, the ground floor and basement levels housed Berlin's first Saturn electronics store (like Galeria-Kaufhof, a division of Metro AG), but in March 2009 this relocated to a new adjacent building.
The future of the hotel and especially the base building are uncertain; plans to rebuild Alexanderplatz drawn up in the early 1990s envisage demolition of the hotel or at a minimum of the base building to enable erection of three new high-rises.
See also
*List of tallest buildings in Germany
This is a list of the tallest buildings in Germany that stand at least tall. Only habitable buildings are ranked, which excludes radio masts and towers, observation towers, steeples, chimneys and other tall architectural structures. For those, ...
*List of tallest buildings in Berlin
This list of tallest buildings in Berlin ranks skyscrapers, free standing structures and high-rises in the German capital of Berlin by height. The tallest structure in Berlin is the Fernsehturm Berlin, which rises .
A cluster of office high ...
*Oderturm
Der Oderturm is a 24-storey, office skyscraper in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, built between 1968 and 1976 when the city was part of East Germany. It is arguably the tallest office building in Brandenburg, with a mobile telephony mast. Its roof ...
*Jen-Tower
The JenTower is a skyscraper in Jena, Germany.
Common names
The tower has been known by many names, official and unofficial. From 1992 until January 2005, the tower was called the ''Intershop Tower'' after its principal tenant, Intershop Commu ...
*City-Hochhaus Leipzig
City-Hochhaus is 36- story skyscraper in Leipzig, Germany. At , it is the tallest multistory building in Leipzig and is located proximately of the eastern part of the inner city ring road in Leipzig's district Mitte. The tower was designed by ...
* Fernsehturm
*Kulturfinger
The Kulturfinger is the nickname of a steel-framed tower built during the days of the communist German Democratic Republic that is the tallest building in Neubrandenburg, Germany. It is part of the Haus der Kultur und Bildung (German for ''House ...
References
External links
* * {{Structurae, 20016118, Park Inn Berlin AlexanderplatzOfficial website of the Park Inn Berlin Alexanderplatz
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