Mossehaus
Mossehaus stands in Berlin as an office building shaped by changing ideas about architecture. Its original sandstone structure rose between 1900 and 1903 for the Berliner Tageblatt newspaper, with Cremer & Wolffenstein giving it a neoclassical form.
Erich Mendelsohn redesigned and expanded the building between 1921 and 1923, adding storeys, a new entrance, aluminium and ferro-concrete. Those elements brought a dynamic modernist character to the earlier Wilhelmine architecture, especially around the corner. A falling slab during construction killed fourteen people, while the Spartacist uprising and the Second World War caused further damage. After 1945, the corner façade returned in simplified form, and restoration in the 1990s followed years of decline near the Berlin Wall.
The building brings together newspaper history, experimental materials and Berlin’s architectural shifts in one address. Its corner remains the clearest detail: Mendelsohn treated it as a point of movement rather than a static edge.
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