Bayer’s research building is to be renovated. The architects think the design is great! But for Berlin’s Baukollegium it’s a flop.
Does this eye-catcher on Müllerstraße have to pack up? The new owners want to hide the striking glass rotundas behind a new facade.
The Bayer (formerly Schering) research building will be vacated next year. The new owners – the insurance company Axa and the Hamburg real estate company Quest – want to convert the seven-story building on the site and expand it by a quarter of the area, to accommodate up to 1800 office jobs. Business and gastronomy are to be located in the basement with the entrance on Müllerstrasse.
The hired Munich architectural office (CSMM) wants to build a five meter wide new shell around the building. The glass rotundas at the front and back of the building would then disappear inside.
The planners want a separate new building on the Panke side towards the ice stadium. It will grow up to 15 floors, as high as the Bayer tower in the neighborhood. The existing building is to be covered by a new floor that looks like a floating roof.
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But: Nothing will come of the plans! Because the Berlin Building Council, led by Berlin’s new Senate Building Director Petra Kahlfeldt, rejected them on Monday. Above all, no separate high-rise building with 15 floors (59 meters) is desired. The architects have to redesign…