Press, pool and profiles - the pavilion at the federal press stand

Very seldom you get so quickly from reigning to relaxing, from Parliament to pool, from unemployment to the sunny side at the Spree. Johanna Ismayr has made it or rather created it. The Federal Pres Stand is her achievement. Between might and media, opinion makers and brands representatives her idea has obviously made space possible very successfully and has reached a cult status over the last four years. Although, as so often, the success was not predictable at first. But already in the first year there were 100.000 visitors. Surely one of the most successful one-man companies in the country. Together with the success came the problems, with adjacent residents and critical officials, German thoroughness and the resulting change of location. Now the most central German beach is still located on the bank of the Spree, but only indirectly at the waterside. Then the active entrepreneur produced her next great idea: If the feet don’t reach the water, the water must be brought to the feet. Therefore she put two pools on the sandy square for cooling off. Of course you can’t operate a public swimming-pool just like that in Germany. That’s why goldfish are swimming in the pool now and visitors must content themselves with cooling their insides at the bar. But that doesn’t diminish their approval of the Federal Press Stand. In the contrary, 300.000 visitors are expected this season. That’s of course not only because of the location and the mild beach life, but also because of the conception of the big building at the beachside. On over 500 square metres internal and external area on two floors special events take place all summer. The so-called Glass-Pavilion offers a special stylish room for celebrations and the proper place for promotions and V.I.Ps. There are plenty of those in the centre of Berlin and many use the chance to enjoy the longest sunset in Berlin from the big sun-terrace on the first floor, or to look over to the glass dome of the Reichstag opposite. Due to the Federal Press Stand’s transparent ceilings and walls and its outstanding light construction, visitors don’t even need to go outdoors to enjoy the view. Opposed to what people think, the pavilion isn’t made of glass but was constructed with EPS-profiles with tensioning technnology. Oliver Grote and Bernd Seybold achieved a perfect symbiosis of requirement and reality: open to all views from the inside and the outside but closed against bad weather and disturbance, moreover elegant in its appearance and not expensive in its realisation as well as resistant against potential vandalism and flexible for relocation. More perfection couldn’t be possible for the construction of the Federal Press Stand Pavilion.

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