Curry at the Wall / Berlin

Currywurst café close to where the Berlin Wall used to be.  Yes, that's a bear holding up a Bratwurst... Zimmerstraße 97, 10117 Berlin, Germany

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HKW / Berlin (3 images)

Original architect: Hugh Asher Stubbins Jr., 1957. The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (World Cultures Building) was previously named the Kongresshalle. Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany.

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Federal Chancellery Building / Berlin

Architect: Axel Schultes and Charlotte Frank, 2001. Willy-Brandt-Straße 1, Berlin, Germany

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Paul Löbe Building / Berlin

Architect: Stephan Braunfels, 2002. Showing a detail of the parliamentary offices' south façade.  Konrad-Adenauer-Straße, 10557 Berlin, Germany.

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Carillon tower / Berlin-Tiergarten (3 images)

Tower architect: Axel Schultes et al, 1987. The black granite clad tower is 42m high and houses 68 bells which span 5½ octaves. Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany.

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Reichstag Building / Berlin

Original architect: Paul Wallot, 1894. Reconstruction architect: Norman Foster, 1992. Berlin, Germany.

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Trabi World / Berlin

Celebrating the Trabant motor car which was made in East Germany by VEB Sachsenring. Zimmerstraße 97, 10117 Berlin, Germany.

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GSW Hochhaus / Berlin

Architects: Sauerbruch Hutton, 1999. Curving slab with an aerofoil roof and shades-of-red shutters. ​​Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.

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Bahnhof / Richard-Wagner-Platz

Modernist shuttered-concrete, mixed-use building situated over the Richard-Wagner-Platz U-Bahn station. Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany.

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Old National Gallery / Berlin

Architect: Friedrich August Stüler, 1876. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany.

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Nikolai Kirche / twin spires

Oldest church in Berlin, dating from the early C13. I believe the twin spires were added at end C19. Its ruins after WW2 were restored by the GDR in the 1980s. St. Nicholas' Church, Mitte, Berlin, Germany.

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St. Mary's Church / St.Marienkirche

Original church dates from before C13, although this neo-Gothic restoration is mainly C19 and post-WW2. Karl-Liebknecht-Straße, Berlin, Germany.

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Checkpoint Charlie / 2016

Museum-piece replica on Friedrichstraße of the first guardhouse used by the Allies at the infamous cold war border crossing. Berlin, Germany.

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Berlin TV tower / looking up

Berlin TV tower designed by Fritz Dieter, Günter Franke, Werner Ahrendt et al., 1965-69. The GDR intended it as a symbol of the city, which it continues to be after unification. Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany.

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Fernsehturm / base building

Base building of the Berlin TV tower, 1965-69, currently housing restaurants, a casino and the Menschen Museum. Nr. Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany.

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Alexanderplatz / Bahnhof

Busy railway station rebuilt 1926 with repairs after WW2. Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany.

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Fernsehturm / looking up

Berlin TV tower designed by Fritz Dieter, Günter Franke, Werner Ahrendt et al., 1965-69. The sphere, at 200m height, has a mass of 5,000 tons. Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany.

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Park Inn / Alexanderplatz

Architects: Roland Korn, Heinz Scharlipp and Hans Erich Bogatzky, 1970. The building was originally the GDR's Hotel Stadt (Inter Hotels). International style, 41 floors and 1,000+ rooms. Alexanderstraße 7, 10178 Berlin, Germany.

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Bahnhof / Potsdamer Platz

Modern trabeated entrance to railway station beneath ground. Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany.

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Fernsehturm / from Otto-von-Bismarck-Allee

Berlin TV tower designed by Fritz Dieter, Günter Franke, Werner Ahrendt et al., 1965-69. The GDR intended it as a symbol of the city, which it continues to be after the unification. The tower here is seen from Otto-von-Bismarck-Allee, about 2.5km away. Berlin, Germany

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Early Traffic Lights / Potsdamer Platz

Replica of traffic-light tower installed 1924 at Potsdamer Platz, one of the first traffic-lights seen in Continental Europe. Berlin, Germany.

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BahnTower / Potsdamer Platz

Architect: Helmut Jahn, 2000. HQ of Deutsche Bahn (German Railways). Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany.

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Stresemannstraße / 111

Sign detail for office building designed by Störmer Murphy and Partners, 1997. Bürohaus Stresemannstraße 111, Berlin, Germany.

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Tempodrom / Berlin

Architects: von Gerkan, Marg und Partner (GMP), 2002, using steel and reinforced concrete to emulate the shape of the original circus-tent venue for concerts and theatre. Situated on the cleared site of the Anhalter Bahnhof train shed. Neues Tempodrom, Möckernstraße 10, Berlin, Germany.

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Anhalter Bahnhof / remains

Architect: Franz Heinrich Schwechten, 1870s, in an historicist style of Roman Classical influence. The WW2-damaged station was demolished in 1960 except for this part. A notice records that from 1942 to 1945, Berlin's older Jewish citizens were deported — in clear public view — from this terminus, most of those surviving the trip eventually dying at Auschwitz. Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.

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Elevator entrance / Anhalter S-Bahn

Functionalist style elevator-housing at Anhalter S-Bahn station, for a line which runs underground at this point. Askanischer Pl. 1, Berlin, Germany.

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Yadegar Asisi / Wall Panorama

18m high rotunda in which is presented a panorama of life in the 1980s in the vicinity of the Berlin Wall. By artist Yadegar Asisi, an Iranian-Austrian, who grew up in East Germany. Friedrichstraße 205, Berlin, Germany.

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Berlin Wall Monument / Niederkirchnerstraße

Originally constructed c.1961, this 200m section was listed as a historic monument in 1990. The wall has been chipped away by souvenir collectors that Berliners call "wallpeckers". Niederkirchnerstraße, Berlin, Germany.

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Aldrington House / Hove

Victorian villa built in the early 1890s and one of the few of this size to survive in the area.  It was converted in 1920 for use as a hospital for nervous disorders, known as Lady Chichester Hospital. Now a day support unit run by the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Listed as an historic building by the local authority. New Church Road, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.

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St Philip / Hove

Architect: John Oldrid Scott in the Arts & Crafts Gothic style, 1894-1910. Materials include red brick, Portland stone, flint, slate tiles and wooden shingles to flèche. Grade II listed. J O Scott was the younger son of Sir George Gilbert Scott Sr. New Church Road, City of Brighton & Hove.

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Hove Museum / & Art Gallery

Villa designed by local architect Thomas Lainson in the 1870s, originally residential. Opened as a public museum in 1927 at which time the Jaipur Gate was installed in the front garden [info source: Hove Museum]. City of Brighton & Hove, UK.

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The Jaipur Gate / Hove Museum

Designed by Colonel Samuel Swinton Jacob and Surgeon-Major Thomas Holbein Hendley for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition held at South Kensington in 1886. Perhaps more bandstand than gate, it was made by Indian craftsmen. Materials include teak, lead and copper. Now in the garden of Hove Museum, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.

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43 Cowcross Street / Farringdon

Retail premises built c.1891 and first occupied by a tobacconist. Fortunately it survived redevelopments around Farringdon Station and is now occupied by Bea's Cake Boutique. The street name arose when cattle bound for Smithfield Market crossed the River Fleet at this point. London Borough of Islington.

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ONE TWENTY / EC1

120 Holborn was originally designed by Richard Seifert in 1979 and has recently been refurbished and upgraded by John Robertson Architects. City of London.

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Maughan Library / reflections

Reflections of the Maughan Library seen above a bus in Fetter Lane. Architect: Sir James Pennethorne, 1851, in the neo-Gothic style. The building, which was originally the Public Record Office, is Grade II* listed. City of London.

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El Vino / side door

Side entrance to El Vino of Fleet Street, once the haunt of editors and journalists when the street was the centre of the newspaper industry. City of London.

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Middle Temple Hall / EC4Y

Built between 1562 and 1573, and surviving both the Great Fire and the Blitz, it is one of the finest examples of an Elizabethan hall in the country. The first performance of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night took place here in 1602. Middle Temple, City of London.

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Phipps Bridge Estate / 3 images

Modernist social housing development of the late 1960s. Mitcham, London Borough of Merton.

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High Street / Carshalton

Vintage postcard S&W Series No.448, divided back, real photo. Printed in GB. Unfranked but probably Edwardian.  Carshalton, London Borough of Sutton.

St Philomena's School / Lake and Water Tower

Vintage postcard in my collection, est. 1905-1912. Photographer D. Knights Whittome of Sutton, printed in the County of Saxony, number 5646. Carshalton, London Borough of Sutton.

Clock Tower / Mitcham

Refurbished clock tower now reinstated at Fair Green.  Originally installed in 1898 to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The clock mechanism was renovated by Messrs. Gillett & Johnson. Grade II listed. Mitcham, London Borough of Merton

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Square Mile / from City Hall

View across the Thames to the City of London, aka the 'Square Mile', showing the negative impact of the 20 Fenchurch Street tower on sight-lines. Taken from the south bank near City Hall, London Borough of Southwark.

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Courthouse entrance / Swan Street SE1

Deco entrance to vacant Courthouse. A planning application is currently proposing to demolish this building and a former Sorting Office,  redeveloping to provide 64 residential units. The Courthouse is neo-Georgian in style, c.1920s. The entrance has a pair of bronze lamps on free-standing columns, with a fine stone architrave and the Crown Coat of Arms above. London Borough of Southwark.

Henry Wood Hall / Southwark

Designed as Holy Trinity Church by Francis Bedford, 1824, in the neo-classical style, using Bath stone cladding. The church became disused in 1961 and after a further decade or so was reassigned as a rehearsal and recording facility for London and visiting orchestras. Trinity Church Square, London Borough of Southwark.

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