Paragon Apartments

First a school building, then a hospital:
After more than a hundred years, children have found their place again.

A Neighborhood within a Neighborhood

Some 217 rental apartments, communal areas, a preschool, and an organic supermarket have been built here on Danziger Strasse at the corner of Prenzlauer Allee. It has received several awards:

2016
FIABCI PRIX D’EXCELLENCE GERMANY BRONZE CATEGORY “HOUSING”

2017
SHORTLIST, DAM PRIZE

2018
NOMINATION, GERMAN BUILDER AWARD CATEGORY “CONVERSION FOR HOUSING”

The transformation story of Paragon is a rebirth of the original nature of this place The historical part of the neighborhood was built as a community school by the famous architect Ludwig Ernst Emil Hoffmann. But after only two years, the Prenzlauer Berg district office moved in, and starting from 1934, it also housed part of the Imperial Airforce Training School. From the end of World War II until 2005, the building was used as a hospital. After more than a hundred years, children have found their place again here. Today, it is once again home to a preschool and to colorful community life, among other things.

The year 2016 was an important milestone in Trockland’s company history:

Our first complete project development and neighborhood transformation based on plans by Graft architects.

“A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson