Kurfürstendamm 34
New hotel and retail building between two heritage-listed neighbours
Description
A new city hotel with retail units on the ground floor. The façade forms the transition between the 1950s façade at Kurfürstendamm 33 and the Wilhelmine façade at Kurfürstendamm 35. The design creates a dialogue between the vertically emphasised façade by Paul Schwebes (1954) and the Wilhelmine façade by Engelbert Seibertz (1898); both neighbours are heritage-listed.
Materials were chosen with care: Brazilian slate (rough split), anodised aluminium and glass, partly as coloured panels. The building features a generous spa and sauna area in the basement, two retail units on the ground floor and modern, spacious hotel rooms on the upper floors. The hotel lobby is located in the neighbouring Kurfürstendamm 35; the breakfast and conference area is housed in the new building on the first floor.
Project data
- Year
- 2006–2009
- Location
- 10719 Berlin-Charlottenburg/Wilmersdorf, Germany
- Category
- New construction
- Client
- Klaus and Sylvie Mutschler GbR, Objektgesellschaft Kurfürstendamm 34
- Gross floor area
- 5,130 m² above ground
- Construction costs
- € 8,200,000 (cost groups 300 + 400)
- Services provided
- Architectural services under HOAI §33ff., work stages 1–9 (under the firm hülsmann|mangold)
- Project duration
- March 2006 to August 2009
- Project number
- № 0620
In context
The new building at Kurfürstendamm 34 in Berlin-Charlottenburg/Wilmersdorf is an urban task of particular sensitivity: the new city hotel with ground-floor retail mediates between the 1950s façade of Kurfürstendamm 33 by Paul Schwebes and the Wilhelmine façade of Kurfürstendamm 35 by Engelbert Seibertz; both neighbouring buildings are heritage-listed.
The façade takes up the dialogue between the two periods without binding itself to either. Brazilian slate with a rough-split surface, anodised aluminium and glass panels form a restrained yet distinct material expression that respects the location while finding a contemporary architectural voice.
As an architectural office with long experience in Berlin and Brandenburg, we work regularly on demanding urban tasks: infill projects within existing fabric, hotels and commercial buildings between heritage neighbours, residential work in sensitive locations. From the initial design through heritage coordination to construction, we cover the complete HOAI work stages. Comparable work spans Berlin’s City-West, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and the medium-sized towns of Brandenburg.
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