Photo: mawa design
Photo: mawa design

The lighting, accessible for maintenance and upkeep, was designed, constructed, produced, and mounted, by mawa. The special feature: HIT and LV mixed technology operation with dimmable DALI control and integrated emergency lamp units

Photo: mawa design

Photo: mawa design

Photo: mawa design

Photo: mawa design
Photo: Stefan Günther
Photo: Stefan Günther

Offices, conference rooms, banquet halls, and ballrooms, in addition to the so-called Diplomats Hall on the upper floor, are housed in the interior of the building.

Photo: Stefan Günther

The building, located on Schlossplatz 1 in Berlin-Mitte was also used for awards and recognition ceremonies as well as diplomatic receptions.


A facade of sandstone and red granite decorates the structural steel skeleton. Integrated onto the facade are damaged, repaired, and newly rebuilt parts of the entry portal from the demolished Berlin City Palace, including the balcony from which Liebknecht gave his famous speech on Nov. 9, 1918, declaring a free socialist republic.

Photo: Stefan Günther

Chancellor Gerhard Schröder used the State Council building as a provisionary Federal Chancellery from 1999 until 2001.

Photo: Stefan Günther

More than 250 lights were refurbished.

Photo: Stefan Günther

Existing lights were outfitted with digitally controlled it-Tridonic System-Technology.

Photo: Stefan Günther

Photo: Stefan Günther

The dismantling and remounting of lights on site was undertaken at heights of up to 12 meters.

Photo: Stefan Günther
Photo: Stefan Günther

Photo: Stefan Günther

Photo: Stefan Günther

Photo: Stefan Günther

Photo: Stefan Günther
Photo: Stefan Müller
Photo: Stefan Müller
Photo: Stefan Müller
Photo: Zvonimir Kontrec
Photo: Zvonimir Kontrec
Photo: Zvonimir Kontrec

Photo: Zvonimir Kontrec

Photo: Zvonimir Kontrec

Photo: Zvonimir Kontrec
Photo: Luuk Kramer
Photo: Luuk Kramer

Photo: Luuk Kramer
Photo: Stefan Wolf Lucks

The glare-reducing shade along the window was replaced, finished with a color coating chosen by the monument protection authority.

Photo: Stefan Wolf Lucks

The well-worn surrounds were reconstructed. An identical-build, gold-anodized spin-formed element replaced the decorative brass reflector in the ceiling hollows.

Photo: Stefan Wolf Lucks
Photo: Stefan Wolf Lucks

Photo: Matthias Hultsch
Photo: Matthias Hultsch
Photo: Matthias Hultsch
Photo: Sebastian Thiel / Festung Königstein gGmbH
Photo: mawa design

Photo: mawa design

Photo: mawa design

Photo: mawa design

Photo: mawa design

Photo: DAVIDS/Sven Darmer
Photo: DAVIDS/Sven Darmer
Photo: DAVIDS/Sven Darmer
Photo: DAVIDS/Sven Darmer
Photo: DAVIDS/Sven Darmer
Photo: mawa design
Photo: mawa design
Photo: mawa design