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New Architecture
City walk from Potsdamer Platz to the new government centre
Along the former Berlin Wall grounds an amazing variety of contemporary architecture got erected since reunification in 1990. This city walk can start at Potsdamer Platz at its reconstructed traffic light from 1924. Around the street crossing we find five big investments of which Sony Centre is the most attacking one with its fascinating roofed courtyard. Close by there is Beisheim Centre where David Chipperfield designed an extraordinary residential building. Before we come to Holocaust Memorial laid out by Peter Eisenman, we pass some interesting houses of different German federal states in the street “In den Ministergärten”. Next to Brandenburg Gate, around Pariser Platz, we see only contemporary architectural designs, the British, French and US-American embassies and the very spectacular DZ Bank building by Frank Gehry. The old edifice of the Reichstag was conversed by Norman Foster into a modern parliament building and fascinates with its new dome. Not far away we find the new Federal Chancellery and Main Station, where a new office centre is erected at the moment.
Meeting point: Historical traffic light tower at Potsdamer Platz (green steel tower); duration: two hours
