GDR heritage, climate protection, inclusion: a Berlin stadium, many big questions – Berlin
Tearing something down and adding something new or quickly converting something will be more difficult in 2021 than in earlier times – luckily. A lot has to be considered: monument protection and architectural heritage, accessibility and inclusion, environmental and climate protection.
The latter – this is becoming increasingly clear – as a prerequisite in general. Because without the fight against the climate catastrophe, everything else will soon no longer make sense. If so much has to be taken into account, a certain back and forth with a correspondingly longer lead time for longer projects is not surprising and should not be discouraging.
How to deal with the Jahn Stadium in the Jahn Sports Park in Prenzlauer Berg? This is a project that at first glance is not complicated at all – sports stadiums were also converted in the past, rebuilt on the same site, relocated elsewhere – but it is complicated because it involves a lot of contact.
The basic idea of a new building is inclusion. A barrier-free arena for everyone is to be created. This is a wonderful thought that we shouldn’t say goodbye to. At the same time, everything must be tried not to flatten even more sporting and architectural GDR heritage.
And the fact that it is gilded to bring in as little concrete and steel as necessary should go without saying, given the poor climate balance of recent years.
There are also some arguments in favor of the renovation – provided that complete accessibility can also be achieved through this. If renovations were to take place, it would be important to preserve the special aura of the stadium, at least to preserve the main stand and the iconic floodlight masts.
Even the brightly colored bucket seats (“Bob Marley arena”) are now memorable – even if they are not part of the GDR heritage, but were only installed in 1998.
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Here are a few more topics that you can find in the current newsletter for the Pankow district (with the districts Prenzlauer Berg, Weißensee etc. pp.) From Tagesspiegel, which you can order free of charge here:
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- District office reacts to “excesses” in parks: is wild bathing in the White Lake actually forbidden?
- “Everyone was overwhelmed”: An insider report about the “shocking” events in a Pankow polling station
- Weißer See: bathing companies are rewriting lido operations
- After fire and power failure in Prenzlauer Berg: will the party bridge now be sealed off?
- “Excursion bus” for inner-city residents in the north of Pankow is supposed to relieve green spaces in the city – that’s behind the plan
- Rehabilitation of the Wilhelmsruher See: the schedule comes at the end of the year
- Commuter chaos feared due to B2 blocking until the end of the year
- Heimstaden wants Akelius apartments: District is examining the right of first refusal
- Gesobau-Siedlung Vesaliusstraße: residents criticize densification plans
- First concept: a new “exercise park” with bouldering hall and swimming pool planned in Prenzlauer Berg
- Newsletter author: Christian Hönicke
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