Berlin
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- Creativity in East-Berlin's district Prenzlauer Berg
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- Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
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- The new Central Station (2006) next to the Berlin Government District
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- The Reichstag building, housing Germany's parliament ›Bundestag‹
– representing the sovereign, the people, and Big M
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- Bridge over troubled waters
– connecting different buildings of the ›Bundestag‹ parliament
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- Dark clouds over the German Chancellery
(›Bundeskanzleramt‹, 2001)
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- World Time Clock (›Weltzeituhr‹, 1969) at Alexanderplatz,
a continually rotating installation that shows the time throughout the globe.
Despite people in East-Germany were not allowed to visit most of the countries
named on the clock, it used to be a popular meeting point for appointments
in East-Berlin's city center.
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- The former ›New Synagogue‹ (1866) in Oranienburger Straße,
partially demolished in the pogrom of November 1938
(›Kristallnacht‹) and by an Allied bombing in 1943.
Reconstructed 1988-1995 and reopened as ›Centrum Judaicum‹.
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- Karl-Marx-Allee at Frankfurter Tor
The Karl-Marx-Avenue was East-Berlin's prestigious boulevard
built in the early 1950s (at that time called Stalin Avenue)
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- Karl-Marx-Avenue, one of the residential buildings
reconstructed in the 1990s
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- From left to right: the Berlin Cathedral (1905), the TV Tower (1969) at
Alexanderplatz and the Palace of the Republic (opened 1976, housing
East Germany's pseudo-parliament till 1989;
the removal you can see on the picture started 2006 after a long debate
about how Berlin should deal with its political and architectural past).
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- Extension of the German Historical Museum by architekt Ieoh Ming Pei
between Unter den Linden and Museum Island
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