page_title: Mediaspree
section_title: Eisfabrik (Ice Factory)
hierarchical_section_title: Mediaspree / Planned or Ongoing Projects / Southern Spree Riverfront from East to West / Eisfabrik (Ice Factory)
caption_attribution_description: Eisfabrik Berlin, Köpenicker Straße
context_page_description: Mediaspree is one of the largest property investment projects in Berlin. It aims to establish telecommunication and media companies along a section of the banks of the river Spree as well as to implement an urban renewal of the surrounding area. So far, for the most part, unused or temporarily occupied real estate is to be converted into office buildings, lofts, hotels, and other new structures.
  The plans date predominantly from the 1990s, but only a part of them was implemented due to unfavorable economic circumstances at the time. Promoters saw in this project a great opportunity for the former East Berlin, while critics saw the selling-out of the area's most valuable properties. The following criteria were defined for sustainable location development:
  Public access to the riverfront,
  Buildings with ground-floor public areas,
  A mixture of large-scale and small-scale use,
  Ambitious architectural concepts,
  The integration of art and media.
context_section_description: The former Eisfabrik (de), belonging to Norddeutsche Eiswerke AG is situated at Köpenicker Straße 40/41 and is one of the oldest standing factories in Germany. Artificial ice was produced here from 1896 to 1995. The approximately 11,000 m² (107,640 sq.ft.) complex consists of two courtyards with residential and industrial complexes. This also includes three cold storage warehouses as well as a boiler and machine room, which features clear, neoclassical red-brick architecture in the early modern style.
  In 1995, Treuhand Liegenschaftsgesellschaft Immobilien (TLG) took over the management of the building. In November 2008, it sold the heritage-protected ice factory to TELAMON GmbH from Bochum. This company also owns Radialsystem V, situated on the opposite bank of the Spree, and it is currently having an extensive inventory and detailed planning carried out. The already-concrete 2005 demolition plans of the architect Ivan Reimann, which proposed a new glass building, seems to be off the table. A citizen's initiative has been established for the preservation of the ice factory. It is not yet clear when the restoration of the ice factory will commence. It is certain, though, that future usage will be based in the creative industries.
  The residential complexes on Köpenicker Straße as well as the (cold storage) warehouses at the rear of the area remain in the possession of TLG Immobilien. For the currently filed plans, there is a building permit that includes authorization for the demolition of the historical cold storage warehouses. Future usage has not yet been established for these areas, but the construction of a new office building is scheduled, which will be composed of new buildings and pre-existing residential buildings.
caption: Façade of the Eisfabrik
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