Bierpinsel

The Bierpinsel is a 47 meter tall building in futuristic -sounding Poparchitektur 1970s in the Berlin district of Steglitz. The association of architects who designed the building, was a tree.

The building

Opened on October 13, 1976 Tower Restaurant Steglitz is a 47 meter high tower with attached Mehreckbau together with stair tower. The building was built in 1972-1976 by ​​the architects Ralf Schüler and Ursulina Schüler-Witte, who also designed the ICC Berlin. It is integrated into the Joachim Tiburtius bridge that spans at this point the Steglitzer Castle Street at the Franz - Amrehn Square in the form of an expressway.

The aim of the designs of students and student -Witte was to mitigate the dominant character of the High Street, which was created as a southeastern extension of the Schildhornstraße, and to integrate them in combination with the Tower in the growing urban structure. Once this is the uniform design from the ground, in the form of two superimposed platforms Metro Station Castle Street, to the tower on the city streets. Gestaltendes agent was the entire complex of concrete with red plastic linings or coatings. He is part of the Pop Art movement and a few architectural artifacts that survived from the 1970s.

Today's popular name Bierpinsel, a classic Berolinismus, which is also attached as a label on the tower building, it was through his gastronomic use in connection with the brush -like appearance. The Bierpinsel is one of the landmarks of Steglitz.

Use

Inside the tower there are three levels that were primarily gastronomically, but also used by a disco. The first operator was the Wienerwald chain. In the following years, however, no operation could long hold and the owners of the building changed frequently. Outside and inside the building now consists of significant maintenance and modernization needs; from 2002 Bierpinsel was closed because of it. An art café was opened in Bierpinsel On April 1, 2010. At the same time started to leave the facade of beer brush redesign for a year of international street artists. In general, the building is to be used again for catering and events.

After it had come in the winter 2010/2011 to a water damage after a pipe break caused by frost, now a dispute between the insurance company and the owners prevented the rehabilitation and delaying a new use. It was originally planned, the original red exterior painting at the beginning of 2012 to restore. However, According to the owner of a new coat of paint was not possible before is unclear whether the facade may have been damaged by the burst pipe. However, this statement is questionable, because after becoming aware of the damage yet redesigned the facade in spring 2011 street artist. The time of reopening thus remains unknown.

Interest in the use of the premises of the Tagesspiegel newspaper expressed by, among others, the restaurateurs of the Bar Tausend.