Excelsiorhaus

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The Excelsiorhaus is a residential and commercial high-rise building in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, located at Stresemannstraße 68–78. It was designed from 1965 as an apartment building modeled on developments in New York City by the Berlin architectural firm Sobotka and Müller, and constructed between 1966 and 1968 for Excelsior Tankstellen GmbH & Co. KG. The company belonged to investor Artur Pfaff. After initial financing difficulties, construction costs amounted to approximately 50 million Deutsche Mark (equivalent to roughly several hundred million euros in today's purchasing power). The building is 59.7 m tall, has 18 storeys, and offers 33,203 m2 of usable space, including 506 apartments and 39 commercial units. Since summer 2011, it has been owned by the holding company of investor Nicolas Berggruen. The name refers to the former Hotel Excelsior, which stood on the site before World War II and was considered one of the largest hotels in continental Europe.