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Friedrichshain Combined Heat And Power Plant
The Friedrichshain combined heat and power plant is located at Rüdersdorfer Straße in the district Berlin-Friedrichshain. Today the building is widely known as the location of the techno Nightclub, club Berghain. The Adaptive reuse, conversion from Cogeneration, cogeneration plant to nightclub took place in 2003/04 and was supervised by the design firm ''Studio Karhard'' – led by architects Alexandra Erhard and Thomas Karsten. Urban context The planning and construction of the thermal power station are part of Berlin's Reconstruction (architecture), reconstruction after World War II. One of the major East Germany, GDR prestige projects in the 1950s was the construction of an exemplary Public housing, public housing estate in Berlin-Friedrichshain. This project included buildings on Stalinallee (now Karl-Marx-Allee), the Hochhaus an der Weberwiese, Weberwiese high-rise building, the Deutsche Sporthalle arena, a school on Rüdersdorfer Straße (now Ellen-Key-School), a Police s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, highest population within its city limits of any city in the European Union. The city is also one of the states of Germany, being the List of German states by area, third smallest state in the country by area. Berlin is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, and Brandenburg's capital Potsdam is nearby. The urban area of Berlin has a population of over 4.6 million and is therefore the most populous urban area in Germany. The Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region, as well as the List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP, fifth-biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
