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A very old toll gate in Berlin, Built way back when the city was
walled. Today it acts as a symbolic Gateway to the city. The Berlin Wall ran
just behind the gate.
An Ancient Roman facade found, I think, somewhere in Turkey. It
was discovered by German archeologist, boxed up, shipped to Berlin, and re-constructed
inside a museum.
Berlin's Culture center. It was definitely not this cool when
I was there. I saw this post card and sought it out, determined to find it.
When I got there, it was closed for renovation, the pond was drained and it
was not night-lit. It was still neat (kind of), but. . .It was damned hard to
draw, its lines are kind of complex...
Potsdamer Platz is German for Potsdamer Square. Potsdamer is neighborhood
in Berlin that is booming like crazy since the fall of the Berlin wall (by the
way I did not see much of it left, though I heard that much remains, though
not in the very heart of the city). As you can tell from the thousand or so
cranes, the area is building a lot of commercial centers in the area.
The new Riechstag, designed by Sir Norman Foster. While Germany
was divided, the Government of West Germany was centered in Bonn, and they apparently
wrote a law that said that, though the Riechstag was in West Berlin, they would
not use it until it could be used to represent a united Germany. This is the
dome of the new Riechstag, the mirrors on the right are to focus sunlight into
the chamber shown in the following picture.
An ancient roman Sarcophagus depicting the story of the Jason's
(as in Jason And the Argonoughts) first wife. I do not remember he name, so
let us call her "Scarlet." According to the legend "Scarlet" killed two of her
brothers so that she and her love, Jason, could escape from (I seem to remember)
her father's control. "Scarlet" loved Jason and Jason loved "Scarlet." Together
they had two sons. For some reason, Jason decided to leave "Scarlet" and find
a new wife. To teach Jason and his new love a lesson, she had the two sons give
the new love a special wedding dress. When the new love put on the new dress,
both the dress and the woman caught on fire (You can see her with flames rising
from her forehead and one arm raised high, to her left is her father pulling
his hair out in dismay). After the death of the new love, to complete her revenge
"Scarlet" kills the Jason's (and her) two sons and flees in a winged chariot
pulled by serpents.
The last reamaining tower of a Church. I beleive the Church was
destroyed during World War II. I Beleive today, the tower, adn the new toer
beside it, act as a place of rememberance.
The Riechstag. I am not sure when this photograph was taken, but I would assume that it was taken before WWII, after the Riechstag "mysteriously" (that should be read "Hitler") burned it down.
The Scandinavian Embassies (Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland)
in Berlin.
The entrance to the Scandinavian Embassies. There were some very
nice wood details here.
Bauhaus archives, the building was designed by Walter Gropius, one of the Deans of the Bauhaus school of design.
A neat building near the Bauhaus Archives.