The Park Inn by Radisson Berlin Alexanderplatz is the second tallest building in Berlin and the 48th-tallest building and tallest hotel-only building in Germany. The 41-floor skyscraper is in the northeast of Alexanderplatz in the central Mitte district and has a height of 125 m.
History
Foundation and early years
The complex was built from 1967 to 1970 in the course of the redevelopment of Alexanderplatz when it was located in East Berlin. It was designed by the team of Roland Korn, Heinz Scharlipp and Hans Erich Bogatzky. However, the design as built differs in the shape and location of the tower on the lot from that envisaged in the 1964 plan for redevelopment of the square. The four-star hotel opened as the Hotel Stadt Berlin, part of East Germany's Interhotel chain. There was a panorama restaurant on the 37th floor and unusually fast elevators for the time and place.
Development after the GDR
In 1993, after the German reunification and until 2003, it had been extensively refurbished and renamed Forum Hotel Berlin, then operated by