Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales
Today’s seat of the Federal Ministry for Work and Social Affaires was the first office to be installed in the skeleton of the former Reich Ministry for Propaganda on Wilhelmstrasse in 2000. The first construction stage of the rebuilding and extension activities was realized between 1998 and 2001. It comprised reconstruction of the main building from the 1930s including court yard design with plantation of greenery, conversion of the Kleist House – the former Von der Heydt bank from the year 1912 on Mauerstrasse – into an information and visitors centre as well as its extension by a generous, glass roofed entrance hall that provides central access to the whole set of buildings; all of it was carried out according to the regulations for listed buildings.
