Bierpinsel, Futuristic restaurant tower in Steglitz, Germany.
Bierpinsel rises 47 meters into the Berlin sky with its concrete structure, plastic cladding, and vertical steel girders forming a brush-like silhouette. This shape emerges from three stacked floors that rest on a slender shaft and widen toward the top.
Architects Ralf Schüler and Ursulina Schüler-Witte designed this tower between 1972 and 1976 as an extension of the Joachim Tiburtius Bridge in Berlin. The construction aimed to create a gastronomic landmark that would welcome visitors directly from the adjacent metro station.
International graffiti artists transformed the exterior during the Turmkunst 2010 project, turning the building into a large-scale street art exhibition. This painted shell makes the structure a widely visible sign of Berlin's modern art scene.
The tower is built into the Joachim-Tiburtius-Brücke, which carries Schloßstraße over Franz-Amrehn-Platz as an elevated road in Steglitz. The structure rises from the two stacked platforms of the U-Bahn station Schloßstraße up to the tower above the street. The building has stood empty and closed to visitors since 2002.
The name was coined during construction, before the tower opened, when Berliners saw the steel girders of the rising framework as brush-like; the planned restaurant use completed the joke. The architects themselves had associated the form with a tree. A later owner adopted the nickname officially in the company name Bierpinsel GmbH.
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