Ottobock / Science Center Berlin

Gnädinger Architekten, 2009. Exhibition centre for Otto Bock health care. The façade panels are made of white aluminium. Ebertstraße 15A, 10117 Berlin, Germany

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Sony Center / Berlin

Architect Helmut Jahn, 2000. Showing the interior Forum with its remarkable roof of steel, glass and textile sails.  Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany.

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Bauhaus Archive Berlin / III

Architects: Walter Gropius (1964), Alex Cvijanovic, Hans Bandel, 1979. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Klingelhöferstraße 14, D-10785 Berlin, Germany.

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Bauhaus Archive / Berlin (2 images)

Architects: Walter Gropius (1964), Alex Cvijanovic, Hans Bandel, 1979. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Klingelhöferstraße 14, D-10785 Berlin, Germany.

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Victory Column / Berlin

Designed by Heinrich Strack, to commemorate the 1864 defeat of Denmark by Prussia, although the Prussian victories against Austria (1866) and France (1871) were also consolidated into the column's meaning. Materials include sandstone and red granite, with a gilded bronze statue of Victoria (Nike) by Friedrich Drake. Großer Stern, 10557 Berlin, Germany.

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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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