Park Inn Berlin

The Park Inn by Radisson Berlin Alexanderplatz is a 125 meter tall hotel building at Alexanderplatz in Berlin's district of Mitte district of the same name. It is the tallest building and the fifth- tallest structure in Berlin. Across Germany, it is - in terms of its structural building height - number 34 (as at end 2013). The former restaurant Panorama International on the 37th floor housed a casino a long time - the highest in Europe. On the roof, a Publicly accessible view terrace with a view to the south ( towards the TV tower).

History

The hotel is located in the northeast of the square and is an essential part of the redesign made ​​from 1964 to 1970 the Alexanderplatz. However, this did not see the later realized high-rise building with a rectangular base in the north of the building area before, but one with a square base in the south. The designs for the hotel supplied the collective Roland Korn, Heinz Scharlipp and Hans Erich Bogatzky and they were implemented 1967-1970.

The hotel was opened on October 7, 1970, the 21st anniversary of the founding of the GDR, as Inter Hotel Stadt Berlin with 1982 beds in 1006 rooms. It was next to some five-star hotels in East Berlin to a four -star hotel, in the preferred delegations of the states of the Warsaw Pact were housed. At the time, the fast lifts were remarkable. After the turn it was initially Forum Hotel. The owners left the building in the 1990s following rehabilitate successively. Finally, all rooms have been redesigned from 2001 for the equivalent of around 20 million euros. Since 2003, the Hotel Park Inn by Radisson Berlin Alexanderplatz is to say, operated by the Rezidor Hotel Group. Currently, the four-star superior hotel has 1012 rooms.

From May to November 2005, the 15,000 square located in front of the windows glass facade was renewed. The new 6800 mirrored facade elements cost around three million euros. In October 2006, two 35 meter high antenna masts were mounted on the roof. Thus, the height including structures is 149.5 meters. The skyscraper is the tallest pure hotel building in Germany and is also the second largest hotel in Germany (as of 2013).

In December 2006, the U.S. Blackstone Group acquired the Hotel Stadt Berlin GmbH, including land adjoining land.

Architecture

The low-rise

The 15-meter high - three-storey and surrounding the high-rise - rise building offers some dining options, including a Burger King restaurant and an ice cream shop and some smaller shops place. At the opening there was popular with Berliners Zille -Stube here.

The three-storey low-rise building, 148 meters x 50 meters in size, is designed in the ground floor with a shop window glass and white concrete structural elements.

On the ground floor and in the basement was from 1994 a branch of the electronics chain Saturn, which has moved the center to the newly built nearby commercial building in March 2009. The vacant retail spaces are vacant ever since. In October 2011, a reconstruction of the low-rise building should begin. The American owners made ​​in September 2011 before its remodeling plans. After a partition is drawn into the low-rise, which allows a later part demolition. For to be rehabilitated by the end of 2012 premises with a total area of ​​8000 square meters, the investors have already taken the Irish clothing retailer Primark as a user. Announced the opening of the second Primark store in Berlin in early 2014.

The bed house

The bed tower was built after the Gleitbautechnologie and executed with a rectangular floor plan of about 25 × 50 meters. For the 108 -meter-high sliding around 10,000 m³ of concrete and 1,300 tons of reinforcing steel were used. The slide was covered with a curtain wall of steel - aluminum - wood parts.

A hotel entrance is on the southeast side of the tower with the address of Alexander Street, a second entrance is located right in the pedestrian zone of the Alexanderplatz. The ground floor houses the reception and dining rooms, which are surrounded by the kitchen wing. The northern region is the installations reserved. On the first floor there are more restaurants and hard and conference rooms.

The 38 -storey ward block contains 30 bed floors, ten of which are summarized. Eight bullets are the necessary installations and storage facilities reserved. The rooms go from two aisles. Each hotel room has a bathroom and a small hallway. The end faces of the building include emergency exits to the Nottreppenhäusern. At the top is the lookout and Event floor " Panorama37 ".

On the bed house a five-story garage closes to the northwest (including a basement ) with 192 garage places on that can be achieved by the Alexander street.