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Columbushaus

The Columbushaus was a nine-storey modernist office and shopping building in Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, designed by Erich Mendelsohn and completed in 1932. It was an icon of progressive architecture which passed relatively unscathed through World War II but was gutted by fire in the June 1953 uprising in East Germany. The ruin was subsequently razed in 1957 because it stood in the border strip; the site where the st…

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1932

Bezirk Mitte, Bezirk Mitte, Germany

Office building

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Columbushaus gallery

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Office complex in Berlin (Demolished)

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Erich Mendelsohn

1887-1953 · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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Erich Mendelsohn ; 21 March 1887 – 15 September 1953) was a German-British architect, known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for developing a dynamic functionalism in his projects for department stores and cinemas. Mendelsohn was a pioneer of the Art Deco and Streamline Moderne architecture,…

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Erich Mendelsohn

studio · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Role: designer

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