Europahaus

Europahaus is a large high-rise office block in Berlin, Germany, located in the Kreuzberg district on Stresemannstraße, facing the remains of the former Anhalter Bahnhof railway terminus across Askanischer Platz. It was one of the first modern high-rise office buildings to be constructed in the city.

In 1924 a design competition was held for what was hailed as the largest new business premises in Berlin, occupying a key site south of Potsdamer Platz on what was then still called Königgrätzer Straße, renamed Stresemannstraße in 1930. The design included a general reorganisation of the gardens of the Prinz-Albrecht-Palais in the rear and also the Askanischer Platz area. The competition was won by the architects Richard Bielenberg and Josef Moser , who in 1906/07 had been responsible for the new construction of Hotel Fürstenhof on nearby Potsdamer Platz, but with a structure very different from the Expressionist architecture of the post-war redevelopment. The first section to be completed, in 1926, was the lower southernmost part. This had its own name – Deutschlandhaus , and contained a shopping arcade and a theatre, the latter also doubling up as a cinema where some of Marlene Dietrich's films were premiered.

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