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title: "Mindspace Skalitzerstraße"
description: "Before it held desks, this building made paper. It is a nineteenth-century factory on Skalitzer Straße in Kreuzberg, converted rather than gutted, and the conversion left the things that make an industrial building worth converting: red brick, factory windows tall enough to light a room from one…"
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# Mindspace Skalitzerstraße

Before it held desks, this building made paper. It is a nineteenth-century factory on Skalitzer Straße in Kreuzberg, converted rather than gutted, and the conversion left the things that make an industrial building worth converting: red brick, factory windows tall enough to light a room from one side, and floor-to-ceiling heights that let a lounge become a two-storey library instead of a seating area.

That library is the room this building is known for. Bookshelves run the full height of the double-height space, ladders and all, with armchairs and a chesterfield below and reading corners tucked into the sides. It is not a decorative shelf of props — people work there, and it does the thing a good library does, which is make a room quiet by suggestion rather than by rule. Elsewhere on the floor there is a lounge with green sofas set against the tall windows, a long meeting table under a white-painted factory ceiling, and an event room with the brick left bare. Above it all there is a roof terrace.

The address is Skalitzer Straße 104, and the location is unambiguous: this is SO36, the part of Kreuzberg that was hemmed in by the Wall on three sides until 1989 and has been the loudest, most contested and most creative district in Berlin ever since. Görlitzer Bahnhof is seventy-odd metres away — the U1 and U3 run on an elevated viaduct directly above the street, which is why the neighbourhood is noisier and better connected than most. Görlitzer Park is across the road. Kottbusser Tor, with the U8 as well, is a ten-minute walk west, and Schlesisches Tor and the Spree are a similar distance east.

Being here is a positioning decision, not just a logistics one. Kreuzberg reads differently to a client than Mitte does: creative agencies, music, games studios, NGOs and product teams choose it deliberately, and the same address would look out of place on a corporate law firm's letterhead. Görlitzer Park and the streets around it are lively at all hours, which is part of the district's energy; for a hushed, formal environment, Krausenstraße and Hausvogteiplatz are the buildings to look at.

A broad range is sold from this building. A day pass buys a seat for a working day. All Access opens the whole network worldwide. Meeting rooms book by the hour. A private day office takes four to six people behind a closed door for a day at a time, which is the useful product for an interview round or a workshop. And the event space books by the hour — the brick room with rows of chairs is exactly the kind of venue Berlin's creative industry uses for a screening or a launch.

Everything else is the network standard: wifi, phone booths, a staffed reception, the coffee and soda bar, lounge areas, bike parking, step-free access, weekly community and professional events, and access around the clock. Dogs are welcome. The roof terrace is the seasonal bonus and worth planning a summer around.

As everywhere in Mindspace's German portfolio, a longer private-office term is quoted on request rather than published. Everything listed above has a price you can see and book against today, which for a building of this character is not a given.

Two practical details that only matter once you are here. The first is the viaduct: the U1 runs overhead on iron trestles along Skalitzer Straße, and a train passing is part of the soundtrack on the street side of the building — inside, the factory walls take care of it, but it is worth standing on the pavement for a minute before deciding. The second is the terrace, which faces the rooftops rather than the park and is the quietest part of the whole building on a summer afternoon, precisely because everyone assumes a Kreuzberg roof will be loud.

- **Location:** Berlin — Friedrichshain - Kreuzberg
- **Address:** Skalitzer Straße 104, 10997 Berlin, Germany
- **Operator:** Mindspace
- **Amenities:** Reception, Bikes Available, 24/7 Access, Networking Events, High-speed WiFi, Meeting Rooms, Wheelchair Accessible, Event Area, Lounge Area, Terrace, Pet Friendly, Phone Booths, Free Coffee & Tea

## Key facts

- 24/7 member access: yes
- Meeting rooms: 13

## Pricing

- All Access across the network (Membership): €399/month
- Brick event room, by the hour (Event Space): €300/hour
- Private day office for four to six (Private Office): €120/day
- Meeting rooms, hourly, in Kreuzberg (Meeting Room): €75/hour
- Day pass in the factory library (Day Pass): €38/day

## Nearby transport

- Görlitzer Bahnhof (subway, 1 min walk)
- Waldemarstraße/Audre-Lorde-Straße (bus, 3 min walk)
- Spreewaldplatz (bus, 4 min walk)
- Lausitzer Platz (bus, 5 min walk)

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