“We definitely need to build higher in Berlin”

As is known, New York is the city of dreams, and even the ruling mayor, who is not really prone to megalomania, is immediately infected. On Sunday evening (local time) Kai Wegner (CDU) landed with a business delegation in NYC and marveled at the skyscrapers on a tour of Manhattan. “I can also imagine a horizon like in Frankfurt am Main for Berlin,” Wegner told the Tagesspiegel. “We could easily have more confidence in City West and City East.

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The architect Christoph Langhof, who also traveled with us and who, among other things, designed the Upper West on Breitscheidplatz: 300 to 400 meters is already possible. “You have to make the money at the top that you spend at the bottom,” he said.

In order for this to appeal to an affluent target group, the environment must also be right. “It won’t work at Alexanderplatz,” Langhof said. “There is no quality of life.

There has been nothing in Berlin got its first official skyscraper: The shell of the Estrel Tower in Neukölln has crossed the 150 meter mark. But Berlin is far from the grand buildings of New York. Senate Building Director Petra Kahlfeldt only spoke out against unlocking the high-rise building deadline in December.

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As a rule, the height of the eaves in Berlin is: it cannot be raised higher than 22 meters. High-rise buildings do not offer an alternative to affordable housing, Kahlfeldt said, because the construction costs are higher and the management is “complex and cost-intensive”.

Wegner still wants to aim high. “We definitely need to build higher in Berlin,” he said as he looked at the World Trade Center, which is 541 meters high. The Senate is currently working on a new high-rise model. Maybe that the image of the Mayor has changed as a result of the trip in Manhattan.