Listed property company Orco Germany said Berlin-based architectural firm Kleihues + Kleihues has been chosen to design the master plan for its Wertheim site in Berlin's Leipziger Platz. The architectural firm was one of nine invited to participate in an urban design competition launched in September 2007 by Orco and the Berlin Senate Administration for Urban Development. Kleihues + Kleihues' draft master plan was unanimously awarded the first prize by the jury.
Listed property company Orco Germany said Berlin-based architectural firm Kleihues + Kleihues has been chosen to design the master plan for its Wertheim site in Berlin's Leipziger Platz. The architectural firm was one of nine invited to participate in an urban design competition launched in September 2007 by Orco and the Berlin Senate Administration for Urban Development. Kleihues + Kleihues' draft master plan was unanimously awarded the first prize by the jury.
Orco said the site is one of the last remaining properties in the heart of Berlin still to be built on. Fifty-five percent of the development is earmarked for shopping and entertainment purposes while 30% is residential and the remaining 15% is office spaces. The development will also have 760 parking spaces. Construction is scheduled to begin in spring 2009 and is planned to be completed in mid-2012. Now that the master plan competition has been completed, Orco noted more specific development plans can now go forward.
