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Borsigturm
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Martin Donat
June 14, 2019
Cycling
The Borsigturm is considered Berlin's first skyscraper and is therefore a novelty of Berlin's modern age. It was built as the office building of the Borsigwerke, which at that time …
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Lemmi alias Schlumpf
June 4, 2020
Cycling
It wasn't until 1922 that Berlin received its first high-rise - far from the city center on the company premises of the Tegeler Borsigwerke. It is there today as one of the last relics of a past industrial era. The base of the 65 meter high tower is 20 by 16 meters. The tower quickly became the symbol of the Borsigwerke.
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BlackBeauty
November 7, 2019
Cycling
No matter what you think of "consumer temples" like the "Hallen am Borsigturm": This is a very successful reuse of an unused industrial monument. The area should perhaps be explored on foot: "Tower", shopping center with facades of the old halls, a gate entrance that was integrated into the new facade, of course the gate entrance, but also the start-up center, the free-standing roof, the ruin, which are in the green area embedded tracks, in the shopping center the old steel truss columns. And like to look at the history in Wikipedia: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borsig_(Ununternehmen)
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