Historic airport in Berlin with new guidance system
The largest monument in Europe consists of 7 hangars, 13 towers and more than a dozen other buildings. The entire complex stretches over one kilometre in length, and visitors have sometimes found it difficult to find their way around the site. Even the planning was a mammoth task for the team from the Berlin agency Moniteurs, which was commissioned by Tempelhof Projekt GmbH. The project is funded by the Joint Task "Improvement of the Regional Economic Structure" (GRW) - investment project tourism as well as by funds from the State of Berlin. 177 information elements, of which the large site plans were designed as barrier-free, tactile desks, now ensure good orientation for the numerous visitors from all over the world. The myth of Tempelhof reached the airport planned by Ernst Sägebiel in 1936 through the "Airlift", which became the symbol of freedom for the enclosed city in 1948/49. The unfinished airport was completed by the Americans after the war and used as a base. From 1950 until its closure on October 30, 2008, it was one of three international commercial airports in Greater Berlin, along with Berlin-Tegel and Berlin-Schönefeld, and was called the Central Airport.