ERNST REUTER HAUS  - BERLIN (D)

This grand structure was built in a “new classic” style at the end of the 30s on a project by Karl Elkart. It represents the only example of an east-west co-operation wanted by architect Albert Speer to give magnificence to the capital of the Third Reich. It was planned as the head office of the infrastructures and various local associations and it's situated on the current  Straße des 17 Juni in the Berliner quarter in Charlottenburg.

The building, unfinished and damaged during the war, was partly recovered during the 50s and destined as head office of the association for the municipal administration in Berlin and named after the former mayor of the city, Ernst Reuter.

The works for the modernisation of the services and restoration continued until 2003. In 2008 the association of German municipalities, which owned it together with other institutions, decided to sell it to an important investor.

Considered national monument (therefore protected by the relevant authority) the building hosts various important services and national associations (such as the Senate's library, the national health service, the German institute for city-planning, a congress centre and a restaurant). The designers succeeded in safeguarding both the monumental external look and the style of the internal decorations.

At the same time the lobby and the grand entrances were redrawn. Big doors and windows were installed here (4,2 meters in height) made with Secco EBE thermal break polished brass profiles in order to restore the required elegance for such meaningful part of the building.

WORK: Ernst-Reuter-Haus – Berlin (D)
PROJECT: nps tchoban vossGmbh & Co. KG- Hamburg (D)
WORKSHOP:  B + N High Tech Metallbau GmbH (D)

DOORS AND WINDOWS: Seccosistemi EBE in polished brass