bundespresseamt Presse- und Besucher Zentrum

1998-1999: Bundespresseamt
Presse- und Besucher Zentrum, Berlin, Germany

Budget DM4 000 000, about R16 000 000
After completing the office building Dorotheenstrasse 80, I was tasked to renovate and redesign parts of the adjacent Press- & Visitors. . Centre,. . where. . functions,. . television
broadcasts and radio shows were held.
The original design had the studios/hall’s clad in perforated stainless steel panels. What people didn’t realise, having put only 4 sample panels on a wall, was that when the entire structure was clad in this, the slight unevenness of the stainless steel
. panels . caused. the. walls . to . reflect . light