The views from Kollhoff Tower, Potsdamer Platz

Kollhofff Tower is a skyscraper at Potsdamer Platz, that has an outdoor observation deck on the roof with great views of Berlin. It was built in 1999 and has 26 floors. It is 120m to the top of the roof. There are no queues, in contrary to the 2 hour waiting at Fernsehturm, the entrance fee is cheaper and the views are clearer because there are no windows. A history about Potsdamer Platz is shown on photographs at the observation deck. It is also called Potsdamer Platz 1.

Kollhofff Tower, also called Potsdamer Platz 1, is the brown brick highrise to the right. The top floor is the open observation platform. Bahn Tower is to the left.

The entrance to the panorama at Potsdamer Platz 1.

Alexanderplatz with Fernsehturm, the cathedral, Marienkirche and Park Inn, and Rotes Rathaus.

Sony Center with Bahn Tower and Tiergarten.

Kogresshalle, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the curved congress hall in the Tiergarten park.

Hochhaus am Potsdamer Platz (the yellow building below). The street just to the right of the greenery is Stresemanstraße where the Berliner Wall stood.

Kammermusiksaal (Chamber Music Hall) and Philharmonie concert hall, part of Kulturforum near Potsdamer Platz. Built in 1963.

View towards West Berlin and Funkturm with part of Kollhoff Tower visible.

Kulturforum, Tiergarten and Sony Center.

Bahn Tower and Beisheim Center (incl. Ritz-Carlton and Delbruck Haus).

Leipziger Platz and Fernsehturm.

GSW-Hauptverwaltung (middle).

Postbank, the black 24-storey highrise from 1971.

Stresemann Strasse. The curved building is Kolonnaden.

Tilla-Durieux-Park.

Tilla-Durieux-Park and the 106m tall Debis Tower from 1997 (right).

Leipzier Platz. An octagonal square near Potsdamer Platz.

A large constructin site near Potsdamer Platz.

Towards the Northwest. The white highrise to the left is Internationales Handelszentrum.

Sony Center atrium.

Potsdamer Platz after the bombings by the allied forces.

Towards West Berlin and the highrise cluster around Kurfürstendamm.

Potsdamer Strasse.

Tiergarten is really a large park.

The red brick architecture of the open top floor of Kollhoff Tower where the observation deck is.