Frankfurter Tor / Berlin (2 pics)

Architect: Hermann Henselmann (1905-95) in the Stalinist-Baroque style, built late 1950s. The gate marks the eastern start of Karl-Marx-Allee, the grand 'Socialist Boulevard' of the old GDR. After this period of building there was a reorientation towards Modernism, including by the Architects Collective Hermann Henselmann. Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany.

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According to the Oxford Dictionary of Architecture, the cupolas were an historical reference to the Gendarmenmarkt (1780-5) designed by Gontard. 

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