A loft event venue in Berlin, in the hall on the AEG grounds

From the gate at Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25 you see the AEG grounds, not a hotel front. Building 17 is on the ground floor, 13355 Berlin. Gesundbrunnen is the locality, Mitte the borough. Wedding in old directions is the former borough name, not this address.

S Humboldthain is about a ten-minute walk. U8 Voltastraße and Gesundbrunnen station are nearby, with no minute count from us. From Hauptbahnhof, train and foot take about 30 minutes. The invitation needs the gate, not only the word loft.

Spaces on the grounds take the build vans. They do not replace the footpath when several hundred people arrive in the same quarter-hour. If you know the loft only from a photograph, walk from the gate at the scale of the evening.

Company events in this house are set out on the company event page.

The main hall is more than 600 square metres. Seated, about 400 guests. Standing, about 600. About 600 is the standing reception, not a row. A stage or a buffet takes places out of the seated figure. Figures are a guide, not a blanket clearance.

The terrace is about 400 square metres: about 500 standing, about 300 for a banquet. Philosophia is about 180 square metres: about 200 in a row, about 100 at banquet tables. Open air on the AEG grounds is about 5,000 people across up to 5,000 square metres, outdoors only.

These floors are not added together. A row or a parliament layout in the main hall is on request, from the table plan. A loft search means the large hall. The other rooms do not enlarge it.

A loft here is height, a working floor and a kitchen you can see, with high windows. A white ballroom hides the kitchen and hangs light like a hotel. That is a different search.

Carpet, draping and a stage behind cloth would redecorate the hall until the loft is gone. We do not promise that. The room stays an industrial hall, furnished without pretending to be a salon.

Light shows the height. A small stage for an address costs chairs from the 400 or so. If the loft is only a backdrop for a hotel photograph, it is the wrong place, and we say so in the first reply.

Some briefs mean a raw, unheated shed, with a hired heater and cables on the floor. This house is not that. The main hall runs as a venue with kitchen and bar, including a winter evening kept indoors.

The terrace is in the courtyard, about 400 square metres. It is planted and gives some shelter. It is not a roof. Rain moves the seated part into the main hall, before any invitation calls the courtyard certain.

Sunshine flatters the terrace. The question is where guests sit if the courtyard is wet. The answer is building 17 on the same grounds, not a marquee added to the loft.

Empty hire is not the offer. Catering, the bar, sound and light stay with Cantinerie. A second kitchen crossing the courtyard is not the plan.

The loft stays a working house. The open kitchen is visible. Courses come from this building, not from a van on Gustav-Meyer-Allee. Four walls and a floor, with no kitchen, is another offer.

One person holds the line between plate and microphone. Guests see the hall, the terrace and the house staff. Radios stay behind the line fixed on the walk-through.

Building 17 is on the ground floor, step-free, and the house is fully accessible. A loft upstairs with a goods lift would be another building. A wheelchair, service and the route to the terrace need width, and that width is part of the plan.

The width comes off the raw chair count. On the walk-through you say which path must stay clear. A drawing of about 400 chairs that blocks a wheelchair at the door is not an accessible evening.

Guests check railway lifts themselves. We do not promise a lift that evening. For a full house the footpath from Humboldthain is the plan. Parking is for the build.

Seated, the main hall stops at about 400 guests. Standing, the same hall holds about 600, as a reception on an open floor, not as a larger table and not as chairs in rows.

Do not add the terrace, Philosophia or the open air to the hall. About 5,000 people applies only outdoors, on up to 5,000 square metres. Stands belong there, not at set tables.

An unheated shell and an empty hire without a kitchen sit outside this offer, as does a white ballroom. If the brief asks for one of those, we say so before a date is held.

On the walk-through we stand in the empty main hall and look at the height and the kitchen. A loft convinces there, or it does not. We mark where a small stage takes chairs from the 400 or so, where service leaves the open kitchen, and which view to the terrace stays open. One sentence into a microphone shows whether the height carries the voice.

Then the courtyard. Walk the terrace in light close to the date, or say that sunshine flatters it. If it rains, the plan is the main hall, on the same grounds, with the same crew. If the arrival starts outside, fix the weather that brings it inside, and which courses still hold.

Sound and light sit in the same meeting as the menu. Hard surfaces do not forgive a small speaker from a bag. Fix where the light shows the height and does not flood the kitchen. The evening gets a clock: doors, a course, an address, a course. The kitchen cooks that clock.

Both sides should be able to repeat one sentence. Cantinerie is a working house on the AEG grounds, more than 600 square metres in the main hall, the terrace separate, the kitchen in the house. It is not a white hotel ballroom, not an unheated shed and not an empty hire. Guest count, date and whether the evening sits or stands are enough to start. About 400 seated and about 600 standing stay a guide, and they depend on the build, the stage and the routes.