Office brochure

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T H E B E N J AM I N
Pr e m i u m R I V E R si d e w o r k spac e s – A PR OJ E C T O F G S G B E R L I N
The Benjamin is a project of Gewerbesiedlungs-Gesellschaft (GSG Berlin). GSG
Berlin is a subsidiary of CPI Property Group.
GSG Berlin, with its approx. 850,000 m² citywide, belongs to the leading
providers of office and commercial space in Berlin. The portfolio stretches from
classical commercial complexes with brick façade to modern commercial parks.
The GSG spaces are variable in usage. Regardless of whether office, production
or storage, small and medium-sized businesses are able to find the right
premises from 20 to 20,000 m², growth included.
The group has already realized numerous exclusive landmark-projects in
Germany, amongst them the Sky Office, a first-class office tower in Duesseldorf,
and the H²Office in the inner harbor of Duisburg. In Berlin, there are the Otto
Bock Science Center, the Maritim Hotel in Stauffenbergerstraße as well as the
office and light-industrial complex Torhaus 1 in Helmholtzstraße.
Sky Office
H²Office
Otto Bock Science Center
Torhaus 1
B E R L I N & CH A R LOT T E N B U R G
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BERLIN AND
CHARLOT TENBURG
Berlin – living, travel destination, meeting place
and business hub with international potential.
Berlin is one of the greenest and water-richest cities in Europe. City-owned
forests and public parks characterize the image just as much as the rivers Spree
and Havel, and numerous lakes throughout the city. Even 20 years after the
fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin remains true to itself as a place of constant change
and is continually reinventing itself as a cultural and creative hub in Germany.
Established, meanwhile, as a renowned university, scientific and cultural centre,
the high quality of life, future-oriented investment policy and urban infrastructure attract people and businesses from all over the world to the Spree.
Besides a strong tourism industry, the Berlin start-up scene is one of the most
vibrant in Europe, making the city increasingly a centre for IT, media and creative
industries.
BERLIN IN BRIEF
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12 d istricts
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CHARLOTTENBURG-WILMERSDORF IN BRIEF
approx. 320,000 inhabitants
approx. 26,000 companies
approx. 53 public and private schools
2 universities
7 boroughs
The district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf is one of the most popular and
most affluent neighbourhoods in Berlin. Established and newly opened hotels,
including Kempinski, Intercontinental, Swiss Hof, Waldorf Astoria and many
tourist attractions, such as the Memorial Church and Berlin Zoo make the
district an attractive tourist magnet and prestigious business location. With the
Kurfürstendamm and the Wilmersdorfer Straße, two of the busiest shopping
streets in Berlin are located here. Due to its proximity to Potsdamer Platz, the
embassy and government district around the central Tiergarten Park, to the
Grunewald and the river Spree Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf is the perfect place
for culture, commerce, politics and solvent customers.
approx. 65 km2 district area
FR A N K L I N S T R A SS E | S PR E E B O G E N
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The Franklinstraße starts at
Marchstraße and is the topographic
extension of the Hardenbergstraße,
which runs parallel to the Kantstraße.
Three major science and research
centres of the city, the University of
the Arts, the Technical University and
the Fraunhofer Institute are located
here. The street, located between
the Spree and the Spree Canal, is
dominated by its proximity to water
and the historical ensemble of the
Gebauer Höfe with its typical clinker
industrial architecture of the late 19th
century. The renovated buildings of
the former textile and machine factory
have been carefully complemented by
modern buildings.
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G E BAU E R H Ö FE
The FRANKLINSTRASSE and SURROUNDS
Today the typical Berlin combination
of offices, studios, shops and restaurants can be found on the 20,000 m2
site. Among other things, Einstein
Kaffee with its own coffee roasting
invites you to linger, while renowned
furniture and sporting goods retailers,
as well as a renowned dealer of artists’
requirements, offer their goods. The
nearby FrischeParadies, Germany’s
largest specialty market for delicatessen, offers an extensive selection
of fine food – about 5,000 specialties
from more than 70 countries. In the
nearby neighbourhood four famous
German vehicle manufacturers have
established sales centres: the Porsche
Zentrum Berlin, the Audi Zentrum
Berlin, Mercedeswelt at Salzufer,
VW Berlin.
THE BUILDING
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“Do you love life?
Then do not squander time,
for that is life.”
Benjamin Franklin
THE BUILDING
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THE BENJAMIN
Wo r k ing a n d L iving in B e rlin
Experience representative working and sustainable living in a new, exclusive
quality, directly located on water, yet in the heart of Berlin. Innovative urban
archi­tecture on a historical site: the building ensemble designed by Rolf
Gnädinger combines urban design elements, modern functionality and lasting
quality work in a vital urban environment without forgetting the historical
roots. In this way, one of the last vacant lots in the City West will be developed
as a harmonic extension of the Gebauer Höfe on the banks of the Spree near
the Gotzkowskybrücke. In the competing challenges of nature and technology,
individual working and living environments are evolving in the heart of the
city – all in the spiritual tradition of Benjamin Franklin, who, as a politician and
inventor, more than once changed the world with his innovative ideas.
THE BUILDING
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“Time is Money.”
Benjamin Franklin
THE BENJAMIN
SMA R T wo r k ing e nvir o n m e nt o n th e ba n k s o f th e S pr e e
The Benjamin offers you a high quality business environment and invites you to
discover individual working spaces in the gently curving arc of the River Spree.
The varied and extendable floor plans of all the office areas have been adapted
to suit your individual needs and provide ample space for innovative concepts
and productive realization. This provides efficient solutions for an optimal, cost
effective and energy efficient use – economy and ecology in perfect balance.
Through its contemporary, light touch, the design planned by Rolf Gnädinger
creates plenty of space for light, movement and meetings in an aesthetically
urban office atmosphere. Office space of up to 669 m2 with sophisticated
features is available per floor to choose from. Environmental conservation has
also not been lost sight of. The Benjamin already meets the environmental
needs of future building generations and as tenants you profit from the
advantage of low running costs.
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E X A M PL E S O F FLO O R PL A N S
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EXAMPLES:
OFFICE FLOOR – 2 PART FLOOR
Area A: 417 m2
Area B: 252 m2
Ceiling height: 3.00 m
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Flexible floor plans for businesses and
self-employment with representative
features: in addition to high-quality
basic fittings in the bathroom and
kitchen areas, all commercial areas
have modular workspaces that can
be adapted to any company’s future
development. Storage and parking
spaces in the basement of Benjamin
can be rented as required.
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OFFICE FLOOR
PART FLOOR
Area: 252 m2
Ceiling height: 3.00 m
E X A M PL E S O F FLO O R PL A N S
OFFICE FLOOR
ENTIRE FLOOR
Area: 669 m2
Ceiling height: 3.00 m
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G n ä d i N g e r A R C H I T EK T E N
Corporate architecture is one of those phrases that most likely come closest to
the notion of the architecture of Gnädinger Architekten. No forced style is
followed, but the hallmark of the Berlin office is characterized by an individual
form language developed for each project. With the Otto Bock Science Center
Medizintechnik at Potsdamer Platz and its organic- dynamic design, Rolf
Gnädinger and his team gave stony Berlin an easily accessible institution
with an innovative interaction character and media facade staging. The
architecture oriented itself with white – patterned on muscle fibres – facade
bands on the principles of nature and symbolizes the harmony of man and
technology in the Biotech age. Buildings like this are more than architectural
highlights. The internationally recognized representative office of the world
leader reflects in terms of a uniform corporate design also the modernity,
precision and dynamics of the products for prosthetics and orthotics. Thus
the architects let the genius loci, its economic possibilities and identity
giving thoughts flow in the respective designs. Gnädinger Architekten also
developed the Benjamin project in the strict context of these urban planning,
economic and individual conditions. The residential and commercial building
matches with its red clinker the materiality of the adjacent, spacious industrial
architecture of the 19th Century. Opening onto the river Spree, the diagonally
positioned frontage building complements the historical ensemble and offers
a contemporary lifestyle which unites living and working in the urban context.
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I nf o r m ati o n a n d Discl a i m e r
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English version simply represents a translation of the authoritative German
text for information purposes only. All details in this brochure, including the
illustrations, are provided without guarantee of their completeness, validity and
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excluded. Furnishings and fittings illustrated in drawings or images do not form
part of the contract but are simply non-binding furnishing suggestions. The
surface areas listed have been calculated in accordance with the calculation
directive (Wohnflächenverordnung-WoflV) on the basis of the expected net
dimensions. Despite the inclusion of a drawing scale, exact dimensions cannot
be taken from the drawings. A legal claim cannot be derived therefrom. Any
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CONTACT
Gewerbesiedlungs-Gesellschaft mbH (GSG Berlin)
Franklinstraße 27
10587 Berlin
Germany
Sebastian Blecke
Email:anfrage@the-benjamin.de
Phone: +49 (0)30 - 390 93 117
Fax:
+49 (0)30 - 390 93 199
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