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Altes Museum |
The Altes Museum (German for Old Museum) is one of several internationally renowned museums on Museum Island in Berlin, Germany. Since restoration work in 1966, it houses the Antikensammlung (antique collection) of the Berlin State Museums.
The museum was built between 1823 and 1830 by the architec... |
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Charlottenburg Palace |
Charlottenburg Palace (German: Schloss Charlottenburg) is the largest palace in Berlin, Germany, and the only surviving royal residence in the city dating back to the time of the Hohenzollern family. It is located in the Charlottenburg district of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf burough. The palace w... |
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Britz Residential Estate |
The subsidized Britz Residential Estate was built on the fields of Britz manor between 1925 and 1933 according to plans by Bruno Taut and Martin Wagner. The project was initiated by a housing cooperative established to combat the shortage of affordable living space. Numerous blocks and terraced hous... |
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Modernist Housing Estates in Berlin |
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates consists of six subsidized housing estates (Siedlungen) that testify to innovative housing policies from 1910 to 1933, especially during the Weimar Republic, when the city of Berlin was particularly progressive socially, politically and culturally. The properties are... |
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Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church |
The Protestant Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche, but mostly just known as Gedächtniskirche) is located in Berlin on the Kurfürstendamm in the centre of the Breitscheidplatz. The original church on the site was built in the 1890s. It was badly damaged in a bombing raid ... |
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Berlin Zoological Garden |
The Berlin Zoological Garden (Zoologischer Garten Berlin) is the oldest and best known zoo in Germany. Opened in 1844 it covers 34 hectares (84 acres) and is located in Berlin 's Tiergarten. With more than 1,500 different species and around 17,500 animals the zoo presents the most comprehensive coll... |
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Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe |
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial , is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of a 19,000 square metres (4.7 acres) site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs... |
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Brandenburg Gate |
The Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor) is a former city gate and one of the most well-known landmarks of Berlin and Germany. It is located west of the city centre at the junction of Unter den Linden and Ebertstraße, immediately west of the Pariser Platz. It is the only remaining gate of a series t... |
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New Synagogue in Berlin |
The Neue Synagoge (New Synagogue) was built 1859–1866 as the main synagogue of the Berlin Jewish community, on Oranienburger Straße. Because of its splendid eastern Moorish style and resemblance to the Alhambra, it is an important architectural monument of the second half of the 19th century in Berl... |
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Galeries Lafayette Berlin |
Galeries Lafayette is a department store designed by Jean Nouvel, Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate in 2008, located in Berlin. Due to the the excellent, sophisticated architectural details and impressive glass facade, the building does not resembles an average shopping mall. The store was built ... |
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