IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features Dezeen on the Brutalist Mäusebunker building saved from demolition in Berlin.
Lizzie Crook writes for Dezeen:
The brutalist Mäusebunker laboratory has been saved from demolition in Berlin after the local authorities listed it as a historical monument.
Completed in 1981, the concrete edifice had previously been under threat of destruction after becoming vacant in 2010.
The news of its listing as a historical monument by the State Monuments Office was revealed by German newspaper Tagesspiegel.
In an interview, the department’s head of heritage protection Christoph Rauhut told the Tagesspiegel that Mäusebunker’s listing had not been done earlier as a demolition permit was already in place….
Prior to its listing, the future of Mäusebunker had become a divisive subject in the city….
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