50Hertz Offices, Mitte HQ Project in the German Capital, Power Supply Company, Europacity
50Hertz Berlin Headquarters Building
Headquarters Building in German Capital: Network District Offices – design by Love architecture and urbanism
1 Dec 2016
50Hertz Headquarters Building in Berlin
Design: Love architecture and urbanism
50Hertz Berlin Headquarters Building
50HERTZ, BERLIN
After around five years of planning and construction, in early September 2016 the so-called ?Network District? was opened, the headquarters of the power supply company 50Hertz in the Mitte district of Berlin in the new Europacity quarter of the city. Prior to that, there was an architectural competition, with the decision going to the ?Love architecture and urbanism? studio from Graz, Austria.
Some 650 employees will occupy the thirteen story building that was constructed ecologically. The slender, transparent architecture supports social exchange and provides a vital impetus for the working atmosphere, for instance by means of the many open green spaces. These occur at different heights through the principle of façade elements that are transposed against each other. The exterior image is charac­ter­ized by a geomet­ric structure consist­ing of slanting, steel-covered concrete pillars.

At night, products from ewo lend the support­ing structure a communica­tive effect. Through the accentu­a­tion of the pillar structure, light connec­tions are created in the darkness that allude to the...