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Cylindrical aquarium in Berlin: when the architect considered the explosion “impossible”

The 16-meter-tall aquarium, which holds 1,000 cubic meters of water, could never have exploded, even in front of all the “Hollywood sets,” its architect said in 2003.

The AquaDom explosion was inconceivable. In any case, for your architect. This Thursday morning, the glass walls of the cylindrical aquarium of the Radisson Collection Hotel in Berlin gave way, releasing a “tsunami” of more than 1,000 cubic meters of water, as well as the 1,500 exotic fish present inside – most of them dead. -. because of the cold of Berlin.

Two injuries and significant material damage to the hotel and its surroundings are regrettable.

However, in 2003, during the aquarium’s inauguration, Michael Jessing, the architect of the project, ruled out “worst case scenarios”.

“Regarding the risk of destruction or vandalism, these issues have been examined,” he said.

He had then developed: “It is true that a small hole at most can be drilled with small arms like that. A hole that a little water might come out of but without blowing up the entire cylinder.”

The “Hollywood stage” has come true

Even more confident, Michael Jessing had concluded: “Those Hollywood scenarios or worst case scenarios can’t happen.”

Unfortunately for him, the first elements of the investigation point to “wear and tear of equipment” at the origin of the explosion, said the city’s Interior Minister Iris Spranger.

Nineteen years earlier, when it was inaugurated, the AquaDom, the work of Swiss hotelier Werner Knechtli -who died last August at the age of 72, according to Swiss media reports- 20 Minutes.ch – broke the record for the “world’s largest cylindrical aquarium”. Werner Knechtli then intended, according to Click, which, thanks to him, the hotel becomes a tourist attraction. Maybe not this way.

Author: Theo Putavi
Source: BFM TV

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