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The DZ Bank building (formerly DG Bank building) is an office, conference, and residential building located at
Architectural Record page on DG Bank building
Commercial buildings completed in 2000 Residential buildings completed in 2000 Frank Gehry buildings Buildings and structures in Berlin Bank buildings in Germany 2000 establishments in Germany {{Berlin-struct-stub
The DZ Bank building (formerly DG Bank building) is an office, conference, and residential building located at Pariser Platz
Pariser Platz ( en, Paris Square) is a square in the historic center of Berlin, Germany, situated by the Brandenburg Gate at the end of the Unter den Linden. The square is named after the French capital of Paris to commemorate the anti-Napoleon Al ...
3 in Berlin
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. It was designed by architect Frank Gehry
Frank Owen Gehry, , FAIA (; ; born ) is a Canadian-born American architect and designer. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become world-renowned attractions.
His works are considere ...
and engineered by Hans Schober of Schlaich Bergermann & Partner. Construction began in 1998 and was completed in 2000.
The building is mixed-use
Mixed-use is a kind of urban development, urban design, urban planning and/or a zoning type that blends multiple uses, such as residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment, into one space, where those functions are to so ...
. Facing the Brandenburg Gate
The Brandenburg Gate (german: Brandenburger Tor ) is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, built on the orders of Prussian king Frederick William II after restoring the Orangist power by suppressing the Dutch popular unrest. One ...
are offices, the headquarters of Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank. On the other side, facing Behrenstraße, are 39 residential apartments. Between the two is a large atrium, designed to be used as a conference or performance space. This is covered with a sophisticated glass-grid roof, curved in a complex form typical of Gehry's designs.
See also
* Thin-shell structure *History of Berlin
The history of Berlin starts with its foundation in the 14th century. It became the capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1417, and later of Brandenburg-Prussia, and the Kingdom of Prussia. Prussia grew about rapidly in the 18th and 19th ...
External links
Architectural Record page on DG Bank building
Commercial buildings completed in 2000 Residential buildings completed in 2000 Frank Gehry buildings Buildings and structures in Berlin Bank buildings in Germany 2000 establishments in Germany {{Berlin-struct-stub