Bricks

Bricks is a Berlin-Mitte club beneath the Hilton Berlin at Gendarmenmarkt, with flexible capacity for up to 1,200 guests. Its defining feature is a 900-square-metre, three-floor setup built around a 360-degree concert configuration: an unusually large, adaptable room for a venue whose regular musical identity centres on Hip-Hop and urban nights. The former Asphalt space gives the club a clear before-and-after story beneath the hotel.

Asphalt becomes Bricks

The room began as Asphalt, a nightclub in the Hilton basement launched in 2010 by Daniel Höferlin after his work at Felix and 90 Grad. Asphalt’s central-hotel setting made an immediate contrast with Berlin’s warehouse-club image, while its small live stage and curtain-adjusted dance area shaped its compact original layout.

Asphalt held its final party in early 2015. The owners then sought new operators, and Kristin Neubauer and Alexander Melendez took charge of the successor. Bricks opened in November 2015 after a redesign by studio karhard; its name came from the interior’s brick walls. That conversion, from a single club brand into a renovated three-zone venue, remains the decisive chapter in the room’s history.

Built for the late set

Bricks operates Friday and Saturday from 11pm, with guest-list access and table reservations forming a central part of its door and service model. Expect Hip-Hop and urban sets, with trap, Afro and rap prominent in the club’s own description; Berlin.de also lists R&B, house and techno in the wider mix. Three separable floors and two bars allow separate crowds or a full-room event. The main floor has a centre stage, DJ booth, lounge areas and a 400-speaker bass ceiling, while a second room carries its own bar, booth and sound system.