German architecture firm Allmannwappner has completed a tower within Berlin’s new Europacity quarter, a massive mixed-use development near the city’s central train station. The 21-story building is leased solely to KPMG, a global accounting firm. It features a double-skin facade with an outer layer of folding aluminum rods that modulate in depth across the surface of the building.
The building on Europaplatz Square is designed to complement two neighboring towers—Tour Total and 50 Hertz—designed by Barkow Leibinger and LOVE Architecture + Urbanism, respectively. Both towers have concrete-clad exteriors.
To improve the thermal performance and noise insulation of the new building, Allmannwappner designed a double-skin facade. The individual modules, fabricated and assembled off site, consist of an outer layer of aluminum condensing rods as well as two layers of glazing.
