Sony Center
The hotel, office, residential and leisure complex Sony Center at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin was planned by the architectural firm Jahn, Chicago. Werner Sobek was responsible for the structural engineering of facades and special structures.
Berlin Behind Glass Walls
These include a large number of glass walls (widths of up to 60 m with heights of up to 20 m), screenwalls and the superstructure of a listed hotel by a 6-storey apartment building with a 20 m free span.
Architecture
Jahn, Chicago/USA
Planning time
1995 − 1999
Construction time
1997 − 2000
Services by Werner Sobek
Structural engineering of facades and special structures (WP 1 − 8 acc. to § 64 HOAI)
GFA
132,500 m²
Client
Sony Corporation, Tishman Speyer, Properties Deutschland, Berlin/Germany
Photography
H.G. Esch, Hennef/Germany
Engelhardt u. Sellin, Aschau/Germany
Awards
German Steel Construction Award − 2002
