Boulevard Berlin

Berlin, Germany

Photo © Stefan Müller

Photo © delta-kapa.com

Photo © schnepp • renou

Photo © delta-kapa.com

Photo © schnepp • renou

Drawing © Ortner & Ortner Baukunst

Photo © Philipp Meuser

Architects: O&O Baukunst

Location: Schlossstraße 7-10, 12163 Berlin, Germany
Year: 2012

Schlossstrasse in Berlin Steglitz is one of the city’s most important shopping streets. By converting and combining the Wertheim and Karstadt Buildings a new kind of shopping centre has been created here: the Boulevard Berlin, which with four floors, 180 shops, and a total floor area of 76,000 square metres is one of the largest inner city retail complexes.

Framed by Schlossstrasse, the 19th century apartment buildings on Markelstrasse, and the newly designed Harry Breslau Park an independent urban district has been made. Treitschkestrasse, which ran between the two department stores and functioned as an access and deliveries road, has been reinterpreted as a roofed urban promenade between Schlossstrasse and Harry Breslau Park.