The new Chancellor's Office building, with the Chancellor's garden and park, form one end of the federal belt in the Spreeside government quarter, which includes the Marie-Elisabeth Lüders House and the Paul Löbe House to the east of the new building, and the site of the new citizens' forum.

Berlin architects Axel Schultes and Charlotte Frank developed the idea of the federal belt in their prize-winning entry in the competition on which the project for the building of the Chancellor's Office with its 36 meter tall main building, set between two long offices wings to the north and south, is based.

The two office wings reach from Willy-Brandt-Strasse, forming, with the eastern side of the main building, a ceremonial courtyard for the reception of official guests and, delimiting the Chancellor's garden in a counterpoint to the courtyard, ending in the west. The two wings are of different lengths because of the course of the river.
 

   
Plan (left image) and aerial views of the Chancellor's Office building with the ceremonial courtyard (below) and the garden and park facilities at the Spree river

  The new ensemble is completed by the chancellor's park on the west bank of the Spree, which is connected to the main buildings by a bridge. Plans for the park not only foresee to plant lawns and build paths, but also to built a landing pad for helicopters, from where the Chancellor or high official visitors can be picked up and driven over the North Bridge to the new Chancellor's Office.

  
View from the building 
into an atrium 



Department office with 
plenar furniture and 
equipment in the 
administration wings 

 




Each of the administration wings has a comb-like form. Passages leading from the main building connect with each of the single, projecting office tracts, which are separated from each other by glazed atria planted with evergreens.

On each floor of up to five floors of the office tracts there are three large offices for staff of the Chancellor's Office on either side of a central passageway making, in all, over 300 offices.

The belt-like building is 335 meters long at its southern front, and the office wings are 18 meters high.
 

 
  
The head office building with ceremonial courtyard 
In the nine-storey main building, which also has two underground basement floors, the main offices of the Chancellery are situated on the fifth to eight floors. Also here are the cabinet rooms, and the banqueting area for the entertainment of foreign or official guests. On the third and fourth floors are meeting rooms, and such central services as the archives and stores. On the first and second floors are facilities such as a large chamber for international conferences and a room for press conferences.

Stair case from the foyer 
in the basement to the 
international conference hall

 		 Visitors of the new Chancellor's Office enter the large, two-and-a-half storey high foyer from the ceremonial courtyard, and reach the main meeting area by means of the wide stairway or the centrally-placed lifts.
 
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The new Chancellor's Office in figures
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