In the interior of the building are shared offices, departments, major cinemas in which each year celebrates the Festival “Berlinale”, restaurants, a museum of fine arts and of course the European headquarters of the firm Sony. The complex is composed of seven individual buildings with walls shaped like a corrugated iron in the form of interwoven sections and surfaces. With the exception of the building facing the Potsdamer Platz and reaches higher altitudes, the other seven did not exceed 8 or 10 floors
Integrating the lounge and breakfast room in the old Kaiser Hotel Esplanade, the architects retained in the new construction, the European headquarters of Sony consists of seven buildings surrounding a central courtyard with a roof of canvas.ĭesigned and built by the firm of Murphy-Jahn Architects, on behalf of the Corporation which lends its name to the work, the Sony Center occupies an area of approximately 26,500 square meters, the size equivalent to four football fields professionals, and 132,000 square meters construction. The Sony Center is a “Kulturform”, a new form of culture for a millennium in which the high and serious business of entertainment is a real challenge in the art of classical music, theater and painting. With its characteristics of transparency, reflection and refraction of light, there is a constantly changing images and effects of both day and night, affecting not only the appearance but also maximizing comfort and minimizing the use of energy resources. The facades of glass and the roof material act as moderators of both the daylight and the artificial. The Sony Center is bright, not illuminated. The brightness, both natural and artificial, is the essence of design. The Sony Center is located in the historic heart of Berlin at Potsdamer Platz district of Mitte.Īccording to Helmut Jahn: “In the reconstruction of Berlin, the Sony Center represents a new vision of order and technique. This effect makes well-made set a unique construction that blurs the boundaries between public and private space in a modern city. One of the effects sought in this creative project was that upon entering the property the visitor had the feeling remain within the city but with a virtual tap where you can breathe freely and transit activity of the Berlin population. Unique in its concept and distribution, this building was not conceived by its creators as a separate building in the city but as a fundamental part of your body.
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