![]() 6 Related articles on Designing Buildings.Oni vendis en 2003 la halon kaj la ĉirkaŭan 500 hektarojn al malajzia koncerno Tanjong, kiu establis en la halo „artan tropikan paradizon“ ( Tropical Islands) kun hotelfunkcio. The Aerium hangar is also known as the CargoLifter AG hangar and more recently as Tropical Islands, the theme park it now houses. The Hangar is located to the South of Berlin on what was originally the Brand-Briesen Airfield built for the Luftwaffe. After WWII the Red Army occupied and then expanded the sites facilities. After reunification of Germany the site was returned to the federal Government and later bought by the company Cargolifter AG. This German company was founded by a group of engineers and scientists in 1996, driven by an awareness of the global market and ecological need for new forms of transportation. Their goal was to promote and develop airships for the transportation of heavy and outsized goods, the first being CargoLifter CL-160, a carbon fibre helium filled 260 metre long airship able to carry 160t up to 10’000 km at a speed of 80-120 km/h. In 1997 the firm SIAT GmbH was commissioned to build the Aerium which was to be the birth place and home to these new breed of airships, 60 years after the infamous Hindenburg disaster had all but stopped the, at the time, booming airship industry. After costs of some €78 million the Hangar was ready and open for use by the end of 2000, yet by mid 2002 the company Cargolifter AG laid off 200 of its 450 workers and soon filled for bankruptcy after the government refused a request for credit or loan guarantees worth 40 million euros. The German Finance Ministry stated at the time that CargoLifter failed "to correct the mistakes made by the earlier leadership and to win over potential users of the technology for further engagement with CargoLifter".Īfter one year the site and buildings were purchased by a Malaysian corporation called Tanjong for €17.5 million, which included a €10 million subsidy from the state of Brandenburg. Planning permissions and buildings permits were approved in early 2004 and Tropical Islands theme park officially opened at the end of the same year.
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