Converting Berlin Südkreuz

Architecture

ISBN: 9783868590029
English/German edition
Jovis Verlag
Softcover, 80 pages
23,5 x 31 cm
colour
2008
€23,58 (excl. VAT)

Converting Berlin Südkreuz

Hans Heinrich Müller Award 2007/08

Vattenfall AG Ed(s)

People are moving into our big cities and their centers are experiencing more spatial differentiation; as a result, new city districts will develop in the future. Thus the area around the station “Südkreuz” – which began operation as Berlin's second largest station in 2006 – has become a focus of urban planning. There are plans for a new city district to emerge here in the future, replacing current wasteland and small businesses. One of the few historical landmarks in this heterogeneous environment is the transformer plant Südkreuz.

In an international competition for ideas, universities conceived potential development projects that may influence the surrounding area by restoring and augmenting the site’s fine existing buildings. The competition entries provide exemplary ideas for a redefinition of urban wasteland through a constructive use of existing structures.