Age of residential towers: this is how the social utopia should become reality

Berlin-Kreuzberg in 2026. On Schöneberger Strasse, very close to Potsdamer Platz, the first residents have moved into a new high-rise.

Social welfare recipients live here right next to top managers who could easily pay one million euros for their apartment, and next to members of the middle class who rent them.

The neighbors from the neighborhood meet in the swimming pool on the ground floor or for lunch in the canteen.

For the children from the neighborhood there is not only a daycare center, but also a youth club and a bicycle workshop.

That sounds like kitschy social romance.

But if it goes according to the plans of Thomas Bestgen, this mixture will actually become reality in the high-rise building called “WoHo” (the abbreviation stands for residential high-rise).