Palais Holler

The Holler House re­places a 1960s build­ing. Ir­re­me­di­a­ble flood dam­age in the base­ment has made the de­mo­li­tion of this sim­ple de­sign by ar­chi­tects Franz-Hein­rich Sobotka and Gus­tav Müller in­evitable. The new, five-storey of­fice build­ing in­cludes two at­tic floors, a two-storey un­der­ground car park, and a small gar­den. A beau­ti­fully ap­pointed two-storey lobby leads to the cen­tral court­yard sur­rounded by of­fice units of dif­fer­ent sizes. The struc­ture and ar­tic­u­la­tion of the im­pos­ing fa­cade on Kur­fürs­ten­damm har­mo­nize with the style typ­i­cal of the ar­chi­tec­ture on this hand­some boule­vard. The over­all im­pres­sion is one of un­ex­cited in­te­gra­tion into the streetscape. This is also re­flected in the roof, which ref­er­ences the char­ac­ter­is­tic com­bi­na­tion of pitched, mansard, and flat roof that is seen in many of the build­ings along Kur­fürs­ten­damm.