The John Jahr Haus in Berlin’s City West has been completed. With the ensemble of office, residential and additional retail and catering space, the Jahr Group has realised a striking mixed-use project at the entrance to City West together with HAMBURG TEAM. An office tower belonging to the project at Kurfürstenstraße 72-74 with 17 storeys and a height of around 70 metres sets a striking urban accent. In total, the John Jahr House comprises around 22,000 m² GFA. The anchor tenant is the international auditing firm Grant Thornton, which will move into around 5,000 m² of office space from November 2026.
The high-rise building with a high-quality natural stone façade, designed by the architectural firm Barkow Leibinger, is the result of a competition initiated in 2019 and has since been developed according to plan by HAMBURG TEAM as part of a service development. The John Jahr House is divided as follows in terms of use: Almost 16,900 m² is for office space, around 4,300 m² is intended for residential use and around 800 m² for retail and gastronomy. The property has a total of 46 apartments – including privately financed and price-controlled units. In addition, an underground car park with 69 parking spaces is part of the project.
“With the John Jahr House, a long-term project that we as the HAMBURG TEAM Group have supported from the ground up has now been successfully completed. As an attraction, the property will strengthen and shape City West as a location for modern working and urban living in equal measure,” says Klaus Heldwein, Managing Director of Project Development at HAMBURG TEAM.
Since the beginning of May, the building has been illuminated by a temporary light installation in the course of completion. Concept and implementation were carried out by STUDIO SAINT BERLIN. On a façade area of around 3,000 m², more than 700 programmable luminaires create different visual motifs. These set the scene for changing partners from the arts, culture and sports. The curated selection of content is complemented by specially developed animations. The installation is limited in time and ends in October 2026. “The John Jahr Haus will be visible in the cityscape even before it is fully let,” says Adalbert von Uckermann, Managing Director of the Jahr Group. “The light installation accompanies the phase until the anchor tenant moves in and makes the building tangible for partners and the city society at an early stage.”
The John Jahr Haus is located in Kurfürstenstraße in the immediate vicinity of the Tiergarten, the Zoological Garden and Tauentzienstraße. The micro-location benefits from very good public transport connections and dynamic environmental development. Berlin Central Station can be reached in less than ten minutes by car, and Berlin Brandenburg Airport is 30 minutes away.
More information about the John Jahr House: johnjahrhaus.com
Impressions of the light installation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI2xwRkey1c
