The Center Potsdamer Platz
The Center Potsdamer Platz is a complex of eight buildings located at the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany, designed by Helmut Jahn. It opened in 2000 and housed Sony's German headquarters. The cinemas in the center were closed at the end of 2019.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: ensemble of buildings in Berlin, Germany
- Also known as: “Sony Center”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Photo: Lokilech, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Photo: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Brandenburg Gate and Holocaust Memorial.
Brandenburg Gate
Photo: Der Wolf im Wald, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Brandenburg Gate is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, Germany. One of the best-known landmarks of the country, it was erected on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to Brandenburg an der Havel, the former capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg. Brandenburg Gate is situated 730 metres northeast of The Center Potsdamer Platz.
Holocaust Memorial
Photo: NoRud, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (German: Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas, also known as the Holocaust Memorial, is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust committed by Nazi Germany, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and Buro Happold. Holocaust Memorial is situated 540 metres northeast of The Center Potsdamer Platz.
Berlin Musical Instrument Museum
Museum
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tiergarten and Friedrichstadt.
Tiergarten
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tiergarten is a locality within the borough of Mitte, in central Berlin. Notable for the great and homonymous urban park, before German reunification, it was a part of West Berlin.
Friedrichstadt
Quarter
Photo: Tanweer Morshed, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Friedrichstadt was an independent suburb of Berlin, and is now a historical neighbourhood of the city itself. The neighbourhood is named after the Prussian king Frederick I.
The Center Potsdamer Platz
- Categories: architectural ensemble, architectural structure, tourism, and commercial area
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Stadt, Berlin, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.51018° or 52° 30′ 37″ northLongitude
13.37352° or 13° 22′ 25″ eastElevation
46 metres (151 feet)Open location code
9F4MG96F+3COpenStreetMap ID
way 183272253OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=retailOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yes
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“The Center Potsdamer Platz” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مركز سوني”
- Armenian: “Sony Center”
- Breton: “Sony Center”
- Catalan: “Sony Center”
- Chinese: “索尼中心”
- Dutch: “Sony Center”
- Dutch: “Sony-Center”
- Finnish: “Sony Center”
- French: “Center am Potsdamer Platz”
- French: “Sony Center”
- French: “Sony-Center”
- German: “Center am Potsdamer Platz”
- German: “Das Center am Potsdamer Platz”
- German: “Sony Center”
- German: “Sony-Center”
- Hebrew: “מרכז סוני”
- Hebrew: “סוני סנטר”
- Italian: “Sony Center”
- Japanese: “ソニー・センター”
- Japanese: “ソニーセンター”
- Korean: “소니 센터”
- Persian: “سونی سنتر”
- Polish: “Sony Center”
- Russian: “Sony Center”
- Russian: “Сони-центр”
- Serbian: “Soni centar”
- Serbian: “Сони центар”
- Spanish: “Sony Center”
- Swedish: “Sony Center Berlin”
- Swedish: “Sony Nordic”
- Thai: “โซนีเซ็นเตอร์”
- Thai: “โซนี่เซ็นเตอร์”
- Turkish: “Sony Center”
- Turkish: “Sony Merkezi”
- Ukrainian: “Sony Center”
- Yue Chinese: “索尼中心”
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