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Façade of the monument-protected Shell-Haus (Shell House) located on the bank of the Landwehrkanal in Berlin's Tiergarten district.
As the name suggests, Shell-Haus had been originally built as the Berlin headquarters of the Hamburg-based mineral oil company Rhenania-Ossag, a Royal Dutch Shell subsidiary (from 1947: Deutsche Shell AG). The five to ten storey office building with its striking wave-like façade – which German architect Meinhard von Gerkan has called "the most beautiful building of Berlin" – had been designed by German architect Emil Fahrenkamp and was built between 1930 and 1932.
After WW II, Shell-Haus was used as headquarters for the Berlin power supply company Bewag which also had the building restored true to the original from 1997 to 2000. The elaborate restoration work (for instance, in order to obtain the original travertine rock for the building's façade, the Longarina quarry near Rome had to be re-opened) was awarded the Berlin monument preservation prize, the Ferdinand von Quast Medal, in 2000. From 2000 to 2012, the Gasag (a Berlin gas supply company) moved in, and since 2012, Shell-Haus houses an outpost section of the German Federal Ministry of Defence.
Happy Window Wednesday, Everyone!
Cascade
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#windowwednesday
Façade of the monument-protected Shell-Haus (Shell House) located on the bank of the Landwehrkanal in Berlin's Tiergarten district.
As the name suggests, Shell-Haus had been originally built as the Berlin headquarters of the Hamburg-based mineral oil company Rhenania-Ossag, a Royal Dutch Shell subsidiary (from 1947: Deutsche Shell AG). The five to ten storey office building with its striking wave-like façade – which German architect Meinhard von Gerkan has called "the most beautiful building of Berlin" – had been designed by German architect Emil Fahrenkamp and was built between 1930 and 1932.
After WW II, Shell-Haus was used as headquarters for the Berlin power supply company Bewag which also had the building restored true to the original from 1997 to 2000. The elaborate restoration work (for instance, in order to obtain the original travertine rock for the building's façade, the Longarina quarry near Rome had to be re-opened) was awarded the Berlin monument preservation prize, the Ferdinand von Quast Medal, in 2000. From 2000 to 2012, the Gasag (a Berlin gas supply company) moved in, and since 2012, Shell-Haus houses an outpost section of the German Federal Ministry of Defence.
Happy Window Wednesday, Everyone!