Sony Center
The Sony Center is a group of buildings at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin's Tiergarten district of Mitte. Located opposite the Philharmonic Hall Kemperplatz - - In one of the seven futuristic building is the European headquarters of Sony.
History
The architect Helmut Jahn, the Chicago offices Murphy / Jahn has created with the Sony Centre a complex of seven buildings on a 26,000 m² site in the Mitte district of Berlin, which took just under four years. The entertainment area of the center was opened on 20 January 2000, the opening of the entire complex then took place on 14 June 2000. Arranged in a characteristic triangular shape of the Sony Center can accommodate a combination of work, living and entertainment. Located on the tip of the triangle of the 103 meter high tower train - apart from the three other skyscrapers at Potsdamer Platz a highly visible building.
The cost of construction of the Sony Center totaled 600 million euro. From 20 January 2000 to 21 February 2001 the Music Box existed. On 31 March 2007, the Legoland Discovery Center opened. On 18 April 2008, the Sony Center was financed by credit sold for this sum to a group of investors from Germany and the USA, so it was in the decade no absolute value increase or decrease in software, but a relative reduction through inflation losses.
Architecture
The steel and glass- dominated ensemble includes the oval Forum, which sees itself as part of the public urban space and is therefore not separated from the surrounding streets. The roof structure provides a spectacular feat of engineering represents a fanned out tent roof made of fabric is secured with tie rods to a steel ring, which rests on the surrounding buildings. It is one of the landmarks of Japan, the holy mountain of Mount Fuji symbolize. According to Japanese belief, the kami live in the mountains, as Berlin but in the sense has no mountain, was built without further ado, the Sony Center as an artificial residence for the Kami, so that Sony and Europe in the protection of these stands. The roof was built by the Austrian steel construction company Waagner -Biro.
At the heart of the Sony Center are the surviving parts of the historic Esplanade. The so-called Imperial Hall with its 1,300 tons of weight was moved to a complicated procedure by 70 meters to allow for the widening of the Potsdamer Straße for the changed traffic. In another part of the former hotel building is the breakfast room, which was also to obtain due to conditions of preservation. This space has been divided into about 500 parts and was later rebuilt by the shifted Imperial Hall at a new location in the Sony Center again.
This first non-planned services for obtaining historic monuments had considerable costs. So had for the 20 -meter high glass façade, a cable network construction are developed, which covers the conservation area. An elaborate high technology bridge was stretched over the old Grade II listed building and leads to the new Esplanade Residence which provides luxurious living room.
Size
The Sony Center are located on a floor area of approximately 132,500 m² various office space totaling approximately 68,000 m² floor space totaling approximately 26,500 m², a movie house with approximately 17,500 m², an entertainment center with approximately 17,000 m², as well as land for retail and catering of approximately 8,100 m².
Dome of the Sony Center
Evening reception from southwest