Architects:
Jahn, Chicago/USA
Planning time:
1995 — 1999
Construction time:
1997 — 2000
Services rendered by Werner Sobek:
structural engineering of facades and special structures
Client:
Sony Corporation, Tishman Speyer, Properties Deutschland, Berlin/Germany
Photographers:
H.G. Esch, Hennef/Germany
Engelhardt u. Sellin, Aschau/Germany
Construction of a complex of offices, apartments, hotels and leisure spheres at the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin/Germany. Werner Sobek’s scope of services comprised the design and engineering of all special structures, such as numerous glass walls (up to 60 m wide and 20 m high), screenwalls, integration of a protected historical building into a larger building complex with a free span of 20 m etc.