ABSTRACT
In 1993 Daimler Benz AG appointed Richard Rogers Partnership to design three buildings-two office blocks and a residential block-which form part of the masterplan of the Potsdamer Platz development in Berlin designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop with Christoph Kohlbecker. The main entrance to the buildings faces onto Linkstrassen Park and the basic form of each building is based on atypical Berlin block with a centralized courtyard. District heating and district cooling as well as the main electric supply is supplied by BEWAG by means of CHP plant and absorption chillers.
