Many old brick factories have been turned into concert halls, galleries or workshops. If high anxiety doesn't affect you, climb this gasometer at the border of Schöneberg and Kreuzberg. Great view from the top !
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There are many lakes around Berlin and in Berlin. Müggelsee is one of them. It used to be on the eastern side of the wall, and one still finds remnant of this time.
Bergmannstraße in Kreuzberg.
In spring, Berlin sometime feels like a small town in the south of France. Today. this street is covered with icy snow.
Alvar Aalto, Jacob Bakema, Paul Baumgarten, Luciano Baldessari, Le Corbusier, Werner Düttmann, Wils Ebert, Egon Eiermann, Walter Gropius, Arne Jacobsen, Fritz Jaenicke and Sten Samuelson, Gustav Hassenpflug, Günter Hönow, Ludwig Lemmer, Wassili Luckhardt, Oscar Niemeyer, Godber Nissen, Sepp Ruf, Otto Senn, Hans Scharoun, Franz Schuster, Max Taut, Pierre Vago, Jo van den Broek were the architect of the 1954 Interbau project in Berlin
Berlin was heavily bombed during the second world war. Trees grow between ruins... Or houses are built between trees...
Binz is a small town on the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea. These wooden shacks protect you from the wind and soon they become islands themselves. Islands on the sand.
I am in Berlin, eyes are in Berlin. Closed, behind glasses or wide open. Graffs, tags or posters. Food for your eyes.
In Bergmanstrasse. Like if Berlin was built in a forest.
The island of Hiddensee is 18km long and by places, only 300 m large. Its long white sandy beach on the west coast offer nices places to rest, after a walk or a bike ride. Only bikes and horses are allowed on the island, no cars.
With bell towers and cranes reaching for the sky, boats bigger then buildings, the bustling harbor of Hamburg is quiet a sight. And then a hot air balloon pops up.
Seen from Tiergarten, Potsdamer Platz is much quieter and greener. And cloudy.
Berlin's tv tower is very high. Once every few weeks it has to be cleaned. People who do it, are hanging 300 meters above the ground. Like those two guys on the bottom right of the photo.
The underground line U7 crosses Berlin from Spandau to Rudow. From time to time, It's worth going out to look at the design of the stations. This is Bayerischer Platz.
Continue reading Gemäldegalerie.
Guides say that berliners call this building the great aspargus. The thing is that I haven't heard a berliner call it this way so far. Its real name is Fernsehturm, it's the tv tower of Berlin. It's 365 meters high, so a meter per day except on leap years.
Berlin main station is a huge transparent building. But its architecture makes you feel comfortable. While strolling about you'll be surprised to see how much restaurants and shops it shelters under its glass roof.
Try the Oyster Restaurant!
Berlin Hauptbahnhof ( it's german name ) was designed by Meinhard von Gerkan and finished in 2006
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