DIFA Office Building
The 17-storey DIFA office building was constructed at the famous Café Kranzler directly on Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. It presents a mixture of gastronomy, shops, a wellness area, a market that takes place several times a week and adventure courtyards with free-flight aviaries.
Neues Kranzler Eck – Award Winning
Werner Sobek was commissioned with the planning of all special steel and glass structures for the project. The area covers a total of 20,000 m².
The “Neue Kranzler Eck” was awarded a prize in the “Innovations 2000 – Planning, Building, Managing and Financing Real Estate” competition.
Architecture
Jahn, Chicago/USA
Planning time
1995 − 1999
Construction time
1998 − 2001
Services by Werner Sobek
Structural engineering of special structures in glass and steel (WP 1 − 6 acc. to § 64 HOAI)
GFA
32,000 m²
Client
DIFA Deutsche Immobilien Fonds AG, Hamburg/Germany
Photography
H.G. Esch, Hennef/Germany