The Federal Chancellery in Berlin was designed by Axel Schultes and Charlotte Frank of Schultes Frank Architekten, in a joint venture with Wayss & Freytag and Acciona. The article names no client. The infobox gives a February 4, 1997 start and a 2001 completion. The text says a ceremony took place on February 4, 1997, followed by four years of construction, with the opening on May 2, 2001.
The article calls the style largely glazed and essentially postmodern, with some modernist elements. It is 118 feet (36 m) high and has 693,000 square feet (64,413 square meters) of gross floor area. The infobox lists eight floors, while the text describes nine levels. Eduardo Chillida's rust-red iron sculpture Berlin is 18 feet (5.5 m) tall.
In 2024 the government decided to keep the building's pneumatic tube system for document transfers, citing protection against espionage. It is the office of the Chancellor. The article gives no hours.
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