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Humboldt Forum: Germany‘s biggest cultural construction site

Figure: Franco Stella HUF PG/Michelangelo Zucchini

This is how the Humboldt Forum in the center of Berlin will look like soon

Figure: Franco Stella HUF PG/Michelangelo Zucchini

Figure: Franco Stella HUF PG/Michelangelo Zucchini

Visualization of the Forum, the new courtyard with columns and architraves made from concrete. The longitudinal façades are reminiscent of the court of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and are surrounded by the historic transverse sides

Figure: Franco Stella HUF PG/Michelangelo Zucchini

Figure: Dreßler Bau/Hochrein

Impressions of the installation, the Forum is taking shape

Figure: Dreßler Bau/Hochrein

The Humboldt Forum is being built in the heart of Berlin. The precast producer Dreßler Bau supplied more than 2,500 precast concrete elements for the façade. The major project made high demands on production, logistics and installation.

The palace of electors, kings and the German emperors characterized the image of Berlin over 500 years. Though it was gutted by fire, it was substantially solid, anyhow, the deputy prime minister at that time, Walter Ulbricht, had the palace blown in 1950, which was a monument of reaction and feudalism, from his point of view. In this way, he created space for the Palace of the Republic, the „home of the people“, which was opened in 1976.

Architectural concrete façade made by Dreßler

After the unification of GDR and FRG, the palace block, contaminated with asbestos, was demolished without a...

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