Atrium Tower, Office tower in Tiergarten district, Berlin, Germany
Atrium Tower is a 23-floor office building in the Mitte district of Berlin, with a facade made of natural terracotta panels combined with glass surfaces. The tower stands 106 m tall and sits at the edge of Potsdamer Platz, one of the city's main redeveloped areas.
Daimler-Benz began negotiating for the site at Potsdamer Platz in 1989 and bought it in summer 1990. Renzo Piano and Christoph Kohlbecker won the 1992 competition for the area, and the first spade for the debis-Haus was turned in 1993. Inaugurated on 24 October 1997 as the first building of the Quartier Daimler, it was renamed Atrium Tower after Daimler Financial Services moved out in 2013.
The rooftop sculpture 'Landed' by Dutch artist Auke de Vries shows a form that looks like a spacecraft resting on birdhouses. The piece looks different depending on where you stand around the building.
The tower is located in the Tiergarten area and easy to reach on foot from central Berlin. Since it is an office building, access inside is generally limited to business visitors.
The central section of the tower works as a ventilation shaft for the Tiergarten Spreebogen tunnel running beneath it. This function is not visible from outside, but it makes the building part of the city's traffic infrastructure.
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