New Construction of the Schillerpark Shopping Centre Berlin-Wedding Müllerstrasse 67 Client: MAGUS-Vermögensverwaltung (Property Administration) Design: AB Künzel und Gifhorn 1999 - 2000 Floor space 61,381 sq m Cubic volume 240,305 cb m Pre-approval planning / Realization and detailed project-planning The assignment was to design a superstructure that would vault the area of the suburban train garages without ending their use, and at the same time to lay the train tracks anew. The front facing a busy trading street, the major part of the 250- metre-long building stretches along a cemetery leading towards the near by Schillerpark. The outdoor platforms are roofed over by an impressive glass construction, thus giving the shopping centre its characteristic look. The centre itself accommodates retail shops as well as sports and leisure facilities on four floors. There also is a five-storey car park offering 1,000 parking lots. The corpus was designed and built as a construction made of precast reinforced concrete units, while the car park on top of it is a steel girder construction. The front materials are light, large-format natural flagstones connected by metal and glass fillings, which were chosen to respond both to the traditional industrial architecture in the Wedding borough and to the surrounding preserved historic buildings.