BIG NAMES FOR A BIG PROJECT
A team of international star architects
The Potsdamer Platz quarter is the result of extensive competitions, drafts and plans. The 19 buildings on the Daimler Area were erected according to drafts by an international team of architects headed by Italian Renzo Piano, who previously designed buildings like the Centre Pompidou in Paris or the New York Times Building in New York City. Renzo Piano wanted to create a European city quarter and moulded the face of the area, among others with the terracotta façades he designed. In addition, other acclaimed architects were included who were to plan other buildings on the plot based on the ideas of Renzo Piano and Christoph Kohlbeckers:
Arata Isozaki (Tokyo): Mito Art Tower | City Life Milano, Milan | and others
Christoph Kohlbecker (Gaggenau): Kia Motors, Georgia/USA | Deutsches Dorf, Port Petrovsk | MTC Design Center, Berlin
Hans Kollhoff (Berlin): Masterplan Alexanderplatz, Berlin | Main Plaza, Frankfurt | Conversion of the former Central Committee of the SED (previously the Reichstag) to the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
Ulrike Lauber and Wolfram Wöhr (Munich): LBBW Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart | The Century Garden Shopping Center, Qingdao | EXPO 2000 Hannover, Themenpark Energie | CSC Cologne Science Center, Cologne | Ausstellungsinszenierung CSC Cologne Science Center, Cologne
José Rafael Moneo (Madrid): Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral, Los Angeles | San Pablo Airport, Seville | Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm
Richard Rogers (London): Centre Pompidou, Paris | European Court of Justice, Strasbourg | Millennium Dome, London | Currently under development: Three World Trade Center at Ground Zero, New York City