Estrel Tower | |
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General information | |
Status | Under construction |
Address | Sonnenallee 225 |
Town or city | Berlin |
Country | Germany |
Construction started | 2021 |
Estimated completion | 2024 |
Height | |
Architectural | 176 m (577 ft) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 45 |
Floor area | 77,500 m2 (834,000 sq ft) |
Design and construction | |
Architecture firm | Barkow Leibinger |
The Estrel Tower is a 176 m tall skyscraper under construction in the Neukölln district of Berlin, Germany. After its completion in 2024 the building will become Berlin's tallest building and Germany's tallest hotel.[1]
In 2013 the Estrel Hotel started a competition for the realization of a high-rise next to the existing hotel building located on the Sonnenallee. The competition was won by Barkow Leibinger (founded by Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger) who proposed a series of triangulated volumes resembling the game of Tangram in response to the existing hotel building and the low-rise surrounding neighbourhoods. The proposal included a skyscraper with a sloped silhouette and a roof terrace oriented to the city.[2]
In December 2017 the borough assembly of Neukölln gave its permission for the project.[3] Ekkehard Streletzki, the owner of the Estrel Hotel, adjusted the plans for the exclusive usage as a hotel building during the COVID-19 pandemic to a mixed usage with 525 hotel rooms and 9,000 m2 (97,000 sq ft) of office space.[4]
The construction started in November 2021.[5] The project aims to earn a LEED Gold certification.[6]