Archinect - News2024-05-18T02:36:24-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150084839/east-berlin-s-plattenbau-may-rise-to-new-heights
East Berlin’s Plattenbau may rise to new heights Alexander Walter2018-09-06T15:08:00-04:00>2018-09-06T15:09:50-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/17/17b0b77b45fbaed1637ea20fbdda00e8.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Berlin has decided on a novel location to host some of the new apartments the city badly needs—on top of the old ones.
Yesterday, Berlin’s Senate announced a project to add more units on top of already existing buildings in the city’s east, with a possible capacity of up to 50,000 new homes. The plan to add floors isn’t novel in itself, of course, even in Berlin. What’s striking is the specific type of building chosen for the experiment: East Berlin’s Plattenbau.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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