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Architects: Graft Architects
- Year: 2012
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Photographs:Tobias Hein
![TOR 149 / Graft Architects - Windows, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/51bf/9e82/b3fc/4b7f/2e00/0025/newsletter/TOR-1874.jpg?1371512437)
Text description provided by the architects. A new apartment building was constructed in Berlin-Mitte. Boldly designed, innovative and elegant: An avant-garde building sculpture in the heart of Berlin between bourgeois generosity and modern transparency.
![TOR 149 / Graft Architects - Windows, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/51bf/9f01/b3fc/4b7f/2e00/0026/newsletter/TOR-1877.jpg?1371512563)
The building is characterized by its faceted aluminum facade, the extraordinary lobby and split-level apartments, which allow generous living experiences that you really only know from houses.
![TOR 149 / Graft Architects - Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/51bf/9c1c/b3fc/4b17/9500/001f/newsletter/TOR_A1B0706.jpg?1371511821)
There is an underground parking garage as well as a courtyard with stone bands and fields with height beds. The façade of Tor 149 features a bright matt metal-coloured hue. A special effect appears when you walk by the building. For a moment it seems as if the building is rotating and then turns away. This effect is achieved by faceted façade elements which capture the light in different ways.
![TOR 149 / Graft Architects - Windows, Stairs, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/51bf/9e79/b3fc/4b48/9c00/0032/medium_jpg/TOR-1869.jpg?1371512410)
The design for Tor149 also reflects the semantics of Berlin: both the traditions of late nineteenth facades as well as the desire for an unbroken history influenced the design process.
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