Karl-Marx-Allee

The Karl-Marx-Allee forms a continuous urban axis in East Berlin, shaped by post-war reconstruction, socialist planning ideals and the representational architecture of the GDR (DDR). Rather than functioning as a sequence of individual buildings, it operates as a unified spatial structure defined by repetition and scale. Between Frankfurter Tor and Alexanderplatz, housing blocks, public buildings and infrastructural elements are organized into a linear composition. The rhythm of façades produces a continuous urban surface, where variation appears only within a strictly controlled framework. The ground floor interrupts this order through entrances, passages and commercial uses, introducing moments of transition within the otherwise uniform system.

HIGHLIGHTS
Urban axis and repetition The boulevard as a continuous spatial structure
Façade as system Repetition and scale
Ground-level transitions Interruptions within a strictly ordered urban framework

Project selection

Frankfurter Tor Hermann Henselmann
Kino Kosmos Josef Kaiser und Heinz Aust
Arcade House Ludmilla Herzenstein
Café Sybille
Highrise at Weberwiese Hermann Henselmann
Strausberger Platz
Kino International Josef Kaiser und Heinz Aust

Duration approx. 2.5 h