Checkpoint Charlie was the best known border crossing between East and West Berlin during the Cold War. At the height of the Berlin Crisis in 1961, American and Soviet tanks faced each other here.
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A temporary 360 degree panoramic installation near to checkpoint Charlie in Berlin. This is a very typical street scene in Berlin, you will always see graffitti, mopeds and bikes wherever you go.
A typical Berlin Street just before Christmas, note the Christmas market and the ferris wheel. The blue pipes are erected by building companies to carry water from underground to the building site. The streets are wide as are the pavements.
The Brandenburg Gate is one of the most iconic sights in today's Berlin. More than just Berlin's only surviving historical city gate, this site came to symbolise Berlin's Cold War division into East and West – and, since the fall of the Wall, a reunified Germany.
This historic building was completed in 1905 after having started construction in 1451. It is a huge monolithic building located on Museum Island, which is one of the most romantic places in Berlin.
A site seeing boat sits outside the Neues Museum. The museum is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin. Built from 1843 to 1855 by order of King Frederick William IV of Prussia in Neoclassical and Renaissance Revival styles, it is considered as the major work of Friedrich August Stüler. After suffering damage in World War II and decay in East Germany, it was restored from 1999 to 2009 by David Chipperfield
There are many ways to see the sights of Berlin, by boat along the many rivers and canals or by bus. Here you will see both as they pass Berlin’s Humboldt Forum
The TV Tower on Alexanderplatz is Berlin's most prominent landmark and the tallest building in Germany. Its steel sphere contains an observation platform and a gourmet restaurant.
Lightening stirkes beyond the Jewish Memorial in Berlin.
The Holocaust Memorial consists of an undulating field of 2711 concrete steles, which can be passed through from all sides. While walking between the columns of different heights and the labyrinthine corridors, visitors may experience a brief moment of disorientation.
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Berlin, Germany’s capital, dates to the 13th century. Reminders of the city's turbulent 20th-century history include its Holocaust memorial and the Berlin Wall's graffitied remains. The city is also known for its art scene and modern landmarks and is Europes leading ciity for green spaces.
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This building houses the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament. It was opened in 1984, but it was devastated after a terrible fire decades later. Some recovery efforts started in the sixties, but it was until the nineties, after the country’s reunification, that it was fully restored and reopened. The Reichstag has a huge glass dome that gives an impressive 306° view over the urban landscape.
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This sculptural, iconic building features pioneering smart office technologies and is situated in the heart of Berlin on the historically significant site, Washingtonplatz. As one of Berlin’s new emerging public spaces, this site provides the ideal setting for this new landmark that showcases the latest advances in sustainability, design, digitization, and comfort. cube berlin is an integral part of the Europacity masterplan - an emerging urban district surrounding the Berlin main train station.
This sculptural, iconic building features pioneering smart office technologies and is situated in the heart of Berlin on the historically significant site, Washingtonplatz. As one of Berlin’s new emerging public spaces, this site provides the ideal setting for this new landmark that showcases the latest advances in sustainability, design, digitization, and comfort. cube berlin is an integral part of the Europacity masterplan. The sky has been replaced in PS
The Congress Hall, former called Benjamin-Franklin-Halle, was the American contribution to the International Building Exhibition in 1957. It was declared as a gift of America to its close affiliate of West Berlin.
It was built on the south bank of the Spree in the eastern part of the Tiergarten. The people of Berlin soon gave the building a fitting nickname: pregnant oyster and today it is also referred to as Trumps smile
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Located in the Tiergarten district of Berlin the Bellevue Palace has been the official home of the president of Germany since 1994. Its neoclassical design is beautiful and although it has only been the president’s residence since 1994, it was first commissioned in 1786 as a summer residence for Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia. The surrounding area of this Berlin building is a park which gives the area a nice green space in the city.
Parts of the original Berlin Wall still stands in many areas of the city. It is a grim reminder of the cold war and the divisions between East and West Germany.
Parts of the Berlin Wall are still intact, here you can clearly see East Berlin and West Berlin, divided by the wall which was forcibly pulled down in 1989 by the people of Germany.
Fatherland (Vaterland), part of the Berlin Wall East Side gallery -was painted in March 1990, by Günther Schaefer to honour the 50th anniversary of the Night of the Broken Glass when Nazi forces in Germany and Austria destroyed Jewish owned shops smashing their windows. The mural is a protest against extreme regimes and abuse of human rights with a poem by Varda Carmeli (multidisciplinary artist living in Israel) delivering a message of hope for peace.
Parts of the Berlin Wall are still intact, here you can clearly see East Berlin and West Berlin, divided by the wall which was forcibly pulled down in 1989 by the people of Germany.
A view of Berlin at sundown. Berlin TV tower is the tallest builidng in Berlin.
Looking across the water at the East side in Berin. Here you can see the Berlin Wall still standing. Everywhere in Berlin is covered in colourful graffiti, walls. buildings, doorways you name it!
Part of the East Side Gallery of the Berlin Wall.
The Jewish Museum Berlin exhibits the social, political and cultural history of the Jews in Germany from the fourth century to the present, explicitly presenting and integrating, for the first time in postwar Germany, the repercussions of the Holocaust.
The Garden of Exile and Emigration are the pillars you see in the foregound, remembering those who were forced to leave BerlinT.
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Berlin is Europes greenest city, it has more wide open spaces, green land and parks that any other European City.
Treptower Park is in East Germany, pictured here is the ”Insel der Jugend” or Island of Youth, which can be reached via the footbridge you can see to the right of the image.
This bridge was a symbol of division between between East and West Germany during the Cold War. Armed guards patrolled the border area on the banks of the Spree River as a border area and the Oberbaum Bridge was one of the few crossover checkpoints from West to East. It is considered one of the most beauitful bridges in Brlin. More recently, the Oberbaum Bridge starred in the Hollywood movie The Bourne Supremacy, which was filmed on location in Berlin.
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Part of the original Berlin wall which is still standing close to Checkpoint Charlie.
This art and culture ensemble, which is not just architecturally diverse, lies between Potsdamer Platz and the Landwehr Canal.
