Following up on recent superlative creations in Poland, Kenya, and Chile, Studio Daniel Libeskind is back with a proposed design that would bring a new media arts complex to the German city of Potsdam, just south of Berlin.
Developer Jan Kretzschmar tapped the firm to create a filmmaking-inspired five-building program in what has been considered the epicenter of the German entertainment industry.
Per the architect: “The design concept is focused on creating human-scaled buildings that encourage community and flexible office and public spaces throughout. The design proposes a 66-meter-high (217 feet) circular office tower that anchors four lower-rise arc buildings of 44 and 22 meters. The lower, wider buildings are to be built at the front of the street, with the higher tower set back from the street creating more open space.”
Spread out across an unused 94,000-square-meter (about 1 million square feet) site in the historic Babelsberg district of Potsdam, the office park development promises to add some 5,000 jobs to the area, which is predicted to add about 14,500 in an eight-year span thanks to the expansion of various streaming services in the country.
Sound suites and post-production facilities are planned for the development as well. The proposal has been recommended by the city’s building committee as the basis of a 51-hectare (126 acres) Media City master plan that will be deliberated over by city councilors on December 2nd. Archinect will provide a project update once it becomes available.
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“Human-scaled“?
Those Germans are huge...
It's like he never got out of the 90s.
Architecture’s very own Pokémon
These seem to, at least, be far less "crystalline" than most of his forms/work...?
Looks like the razor-edged-pointy-object phase is finally over.
Now onward, into 1995!
It looks like the Revit example project from Release 8
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