Die Pyramide
| Die Pyramide | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Marzahn, Berlin, Germany |
| Coordinates | 52°32′5″N 13°31′7″E / 52.53472°N 13.51861°ECoordinates: 52°32′5″N 13°31′7″E / 52.53472°N 13.51861°E |
| Construction started | 1994 |
| Completed | 1995 |
| Height | |
| Roof | 100 m (330 ft) |
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| Floor count | 23 |
| Floor area | 43,800 m2 (471,000 sq ft) |
Die Pyramide (The Pyramid) is a high-rise building built in 1994/95 and located in the Berlin Borough of Marzahn at the Rhinstraße / Landsberger Allee intersection. The office building and adjacent outbuildings have a combined floor space of 43,800 square metres. It was built by Düren-based real estate company Fundus-Gruppe for about 145 million Euros. Official completion date was 17 January 1995.
The 100-metre-high, double-wing main building has 23 floors and is on the basis of its architecture, which has integrated into the truly ordinary-looking building is a pyramid-glass facade. The pyramid itself acts as an oversized Chronometer. On the upper floors of the west facade of the main building are situated in green light strips hours and minutes. The pyramid-like glass facade on the north facade includes the display of seconds (blue light strips, each per seconds left and the right of the glass over a lamp). Every hour on the minute is emitted from the tip of a flash of light. The pyramid is considered Europe's largest clock. (The clock was out of service from early 2006 until December 2007.)
To finance the building was opened by the Fundus Group is a closed real estate. Due to absence of surpluses on account of the small rental income, investors accused the fund-group of fraud. They said that the rentable area in the prospectus had been given as too large and therefore the rental income has been overstated. The fund group denied these allegations.
In 2006, the investor sold the building to the Comer Group International. The British real estate company wants to accommodate in the pyramid's Continental Europe office and occupying the space around one third of the area with 350 employees. Two floors of the annex, a business must be located hotel with 70 rooms.