Kunsthaus Tacheles

DE-Berlin

New life for Berlin's most colorful ruin

Large-format windows and doors were renovated in style using thermally broken steel systems, among other things. Because the preservation authorities valued the appearance more highly than the original materialization, the window and façade elements were replaced with contemporary constructions made of thermally broken steel systems according to the design planning by Herzog & de Meuron in the formats and profile contours of the dismantled existing windows. Their layout and opening elements vary between the floors, with different widths and heights even within one floor.

The greatest challenge for Metallbau Windeck, Kloster Lehnin, the company commissioned with the metal construction work, was the variety of window and door systems to be used as well as the production and installation of the various window and door constructions according to measurements in an old existing building.