TAZ

TAZ

Berlin, media headquarter for TAZ newspaper, 2015 - 2017
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After 25 years at the Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse across from Checkpoint Charlie, the Berlin daily newspaper moves a block further south. The purchase of the plot Friedrichstrasse 20-22 allows the taz to unite its roughly 250 employees in the future media quarters next to the Bessel Park under one roof again.
 

Urban Development
In its prominent corner location, the new taz building must mediate between the traditional Berlin block and the solitary buildings from the period of the IBA. Our design combines the urban block and the corner: we adopt the height of a typical Berlin eave and continue the block; a subtle setback of the façade facing Friedrichstrasse creates a clearly accentuated entrance. Street, corner, and courtyard thus become the urban leitmotiv and convert the potential building envelope of the existing development plan into a simple and concise volume.
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Architecture

The architectural design of the new house for the taz recalls the Moscow "Shabolovka" radio tower by Vladimir G. Shukhov from the early 1920s. Its structural system, conceived as a network, attempts to reach the greatest possible load capacity with the fewest possible elements.

The net is a structure in which all the parts must perform equally and only together can they achieve stability. It is a system with no hierarchy. The architectural appearance of the new house for taz thus becomes simultaneously the structure and emblem of the organization.

 

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The main structure is composed of diagonal bracings along the periphery of the building envelope and therefore does not require any additional support on the inside. The thirteen-meter, free-spanning office floors create a row-like, workshop atmosphere and are able to respond flexibly to a variety of different forms of use.

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TAZ

2017
Restricted Competition 
2014
, 1st prize
Address: 
Friedrichstrasse 20,
10969 Berlin,
Germany
Client: 
taz, die tageszeitung. Verlagsgenossenschaft eG, Berlin
Realization:
2015 – 2017
Team:
Project: Piet Eckert, Wim Eckert with Claudio Aquino and Mireya Sanchez Gomez, Felix Yaparsidi, Yusuke Ota, Corbin Jenkins; Competition: Piet Eckert, Wim Eckert with André Passos, Alexander Struck, Tobias Weise, Bojana Miskeljin, Philip Milkowski, Rickey Gates, Jochen Paul
Collaboration: 

Project Management: SMV Bauprojektsteuerung, Berlin
Construction Planning: Sedeño Bauplanung GmbH, Berlin
Structural Engineering: Schnetzer Puskas International AG, Basel
Façade Engineering: Emmer Pfenninger Partner AG, CH-Munchenstein
Foundation Engineering: GuD GmbH, Berlin
Energy and Building Technology: Ernst Basler und Partner AG, Berlin and Zurich
MEP Engineering: PHA GmbH, Berlin
Building Physics: JH-Ingenieure GmbH, D-Kleinmachnow
Fire Safety: hhpberlin Ingenieure für Brandschutz GmbH, Berlin

Construction cost: 
EUR 20 Mio.
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