For the Nazi concentration camp, see Columbia-Haus.
The Columbushaus in 1933, one year after its completion. Woolworth's with the dark signage at the right
The Columbushaus (Columbus House) was a nine-storey modernist office and shopping building in Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, designed by Erich Mendelsohn and completed in 1932. It was an icon of progressive architecture which passed relatively unscathed through World War II but was gutted by fire in the June 1953 uprising in East Germany. The ruin was subsequently razed in 1957 because it stood in the border strip; the site where the structure once stood was occupied by activists shortly before the fall of the Berlin wall.
result of the Depression, the Columbushaus was the only part of the project built. Mendelsohn planned the Columbushaus as part of a wall of skyscrapers...
slice through the built-up area immediately to the north of Columbushaus (although Columbushaus itself would remain unscathed); this road would line up with...
Mossehaus in Berlin was an early model for the streamline moderne style. His Columbushaus on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin (1931) was a prototype for the modernist...
horizontal strips of windows. His own home, Am Rupenhorn, Berlin (1928-1930) Columbushaus, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin (1928-1932). Burnt out during the June 1953...
Soviet Union in 1941 put an end to all of Sagebiel's building plans. Columbushaus, Berlin, Project management for Erich Mendelsohn Reichsluftfahrtministerium...
completely burnt out on 17 June 1953, along with Erich Mendelsohn's Columbushaus, during the East German strike and protest. It was then left in ruins...
November: 1932 Berlin transport strike. 31 December: Population: 4,273,701. Columbushaus built on Potsdamer Platz. 1933 Nazi headquarters relocated to Berlin...
under the name of Columbus-Haus. (The complex is not related to the Columbushaus that was formerly located on Potsdamer Platz.) The project involves three...
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