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DZ Bank building |
The DZ Bank building (formerly DG Bank building) is an office, conference, and residential building located at Pariser Platz 3 in Berlin. It was designed by architect Frank Gehry and engineered by Hans Schober of Schlaich Bergermann & Partner. Construction began in 1998 and was completed in 2000. Th... |
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Bauhaus Archive |
The Bauhaus Archive is a museum located in the city of Berlin. It was founded in Darmstadt in 1960. Walter Gropius and other members of the Bauhaus movement gave their support. The collection grew so quickly that a dedicated museum seemed attractive and Gropius was asked to design it. In 1964, he pr... |
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Martin-Gropius-Bau |
Martin-Gropius-Bau, originally a museum of applied arts and a listed historical monument since 1966, is a well-known Berlin exhibition hall located at Niederkirchnerstraße 7 in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
The building was erected between 1877 and 1881 by the architects Martin Gropius (a great uncle of Walter... |
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Checkpoint Charlie |
Checkpoint Charlie (or "Checkpoint C") was the name given by the Western Allies to the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Soviet Union prompted the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 to stop Eastern Bloc emigration westward through... |
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Potsdamer Platz |
Potsdamer Platz (literally Potsdam Square) is an important public square and traffic intersection in the centre of Berlin, Germany, lying about one kilometre south of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag (German Parliament Building), and close to the southeast corner of the Tiergarten park. It is ... |
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German Museum of Technology |
Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin ("German Museum of Technology") was founded in 1982 in Berlin, Germany, and exhibits a large collection of historical technical artifacts. The museum's main emphasis is on rail transport, but it also features exhibits of various sorts of industrial technology. Recently... |
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Tiergarten |
Tiergarten (German for Animal Garden) is a locality within the borough of Mitte, in central Berlin (Germany). Notable for the great and homonymous urban park, before German reunification, it was a part of West Berlin. Until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform, Tiergarten was also the name of a borou... |
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Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten |
The Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten is located in a freestanding tower next to the House of World Cultures (" Haus der Kulturen der Welt "), near the Chancellery in the northeastern part of Berlin's central Tiergarten park.
It is a large, manually played concert instrument, comprising 68 bells weighi... |
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Shell-Haus |
Shell-Haus is a modernist architectural masterwork that stands overlooking the Landwehrkanal in the Tiergarten district of Berlin.
In 1929 a competition was held between five architects to determine the designer of a prestigious new office block to house the headquarters of the mineral oil company,... |
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St. Matthew's Church in Berlin |
Saint Matthew Church is located on Mätthäikirchplatz in Kulturforum. It was built in 1844 by Friedrich August Stüler in neoromanesque style. It is the only building in Kulturforum which is a historic monument. |
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