@mirthenemrys
Inside and out, this building looks perfect for so many movie/tv settings.
@svuvich
Being sponsored by the city itself is wild, congrats. Thats gotta be my favorite sponsorship that Ive seen this channel take
@paulushdk
I am a Berliner and i've never seen the inside of the icc. Thank you!
@relaxationandsleep01
I worked there in the late 90s as a young man. I was in nearly every room of that building, but I could still learn something from that video. It IS a special place.
@BandanRRChannel
That entrance area really gives me "spaceport terminal gates" vibes. Would be perfect for a Sci-Fi movie or TV series!
@CloudyWithABitOfRain
My dad used to work there in the 90s and my mom would take us to visit him after school. my little 6 year old self loved exploring the hallways and plenary rooms. It really was like running around a Star Wars movie set :)
@nicolaswendlandt9122
I Am from Berlin and I worked in the ICC. Thank you for teaching me about its History. I had no idea.
@nate22i
1:29 the big red banner on the side says "ICC: still going to take a while - but it'll be awesome!" Hahahaa
@calvinvail89
My father worked at the ICC in the early 90s. He was a supervisor in the service department and had to manage hundreds of employees. He was responsible for ensuring that all events ran smoothly, and he even met Helmut Kohl and Boris Becker. Because of him, I also got to see behind the scenes of this huge building. I can only say it was truly fascinating. A great building, even to this day.
@peterprokop
I know a lot about it, has been one of the issues I dealt with for five years in the Berlin parliament. The problems with the building are numerous: 1) It can't be used in it current state because water and sewage, ventilation, electrical installations, elevators and the lifting system are too old and need to be replaced or refurbished, and this costs hundreds of millions just to bring it up to code 2) The building is very inefficient; only 20% of it's space can be rented out to make money, 80% is corridors and backstairs. 3) It would take about 200 Mio. € to tear it down, and the place it not well suited even as a park or residence, surrounded by rail and autobahn, but for a billion or so things could be moved, but nobody knows how spending another billion could be justified 4) Politics was willing to give the building and at least a hundred million to anyone who could come up with a plan and the rest of the money to make anything work, but nobody came forward 5) It takes millions every year to keep the building from total decay, but nobody has the power or the money to either tear it down or make something out of it This building has been handed over from one Berlin government to the other for like two decades, and nobody managed to find a solution, and I don't see anything major to happen with it in the next decade, either. EDIT: While the building looks awesome on camera, I never felt comfortable in it. No daylight, confusing stairs, levels and walkways and tunnels and very artificial looking materials make a nice movie set, but also gives me bad kind of bad vibes, inside more than from the outside, which needs half a million to clean and should be done every year, but that interval has been widened quite a bit, so it looked quite dirty for most of the last decade.
@zlozlozlo
Having a Comic-Con in this place would be trippy. Or some sort of sci-fi LARP.
@nimedave
I’ve driven past this place many times and always wondered what it was like inside. Thank you for showing me. I love it.
@H.the.Designer
i spent 6 months in Berlin in ´23 and one day i was out in the pub with friends. At some point at night we went our way home and me, alone and with an empty phone battery I realized its hard to get to the other side of berlin with no subway or train commute active in night hours. So drunk me went on search of a night bus and at some point I reached this building not even knowing what it was and let me tell you- at night in cold weather, alone and drunk with no soul in sight this building was absolutely intimidating and I felt like in a Bladerunner scene! just awesome.
@EffieTM
the outside got quite a cyberpunk vibe to it, while the inside looks like it's straight out of Star Trek. Amazing!
@Gilgwathir
This was built in the 70ies and still looks futuristic. Marvellous job by the designers.
@Gigi_Cee
I'm from Germany and didn't know that existed. And I am genuinely just speechless. This building is amazing - even though it should've been obvious that maintenance is going to be higher than what it can do, this is just spectacular
@baltasarneumann1791
I bought one stock of "Daimler Benz" in 2014 just to be invited for the stockholder converence. It was the very last "normal" event in the ICC. I hope the spirit of the place will be keept with further use. Thanks for the video!
@wbj2000
This is an extremely impressive building. I hope it is reopened and put back into use as a public center for conventions, concerts, exhibits and cultural events. As far as I am aware, there is nothing like this building in the world. The fact that it captures the 1960's feel, is just a bonus.
@N1njaSnake
Berlin's abandoned building looks better and cleaner than many countries' best venues.
@TheB1M