Post Programme Adventure: the Great Cycle Mission
Dagmar Hoetzel, an architectural journalist and project supporter, offered to take myself and fellow participant Claudia Morgado on an Architectural Bike Tour of her favourite spaces in Berlin.
Starting at the Kreutzberg Hill Dagmar took us on an epic adventure across the city’s network of cycling routes.
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| Kreutzberg Hill |
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| Urban Skate Park |
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| Neue Nationalgalerie: Mies Van Der Rohe |
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| Neue Nationalgalerie: Mies Van Der Rohe |
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| Neue Nationalgalerie: Mies Van Der Rohe |
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| Neue Nationalgalerie: Mies Van Der Rohe |
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| Neue Nationalgalerie: Mies Van Der Rohe |
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| The South African Embassy in Berlin : MMA Architects |
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| Tiergarten |
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| Reichstag Building |
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| Old Akademie der Kunste Building |
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| Old Akademie der Kunste Building |
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| Old Akademie der Kunste Building |
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| Old Akademie der Kunste Building |
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| Autobahn Building – the free way goes straight through it |
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| Autobahn Building – the free way goes straight through it |
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| Day finished with a train ride back through the most stereotypical ‘German’ train station. |
Daniel Libiskind’s Jewish Museum
As an architect one cannot visit Berlin without going to Daniel Libiskind’s Jewish Museum.
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| Daniel Libiskind’s Jewish Museum. |
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| Haunting isolation spaces in the Museum |
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| Daniel Libiskind’s Jewish Museum. |
The space that I enjoyed the most was the outside garden.
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| Daniel Libiskind’s Jewish Museum. |
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| Daniel Libiskind’s Jewish Museum. |
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| Daniel Libiskind’s Jewish Museum. |
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| Daniel Libiskind’s Jewish Museum. |
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| Daniel Libiskind’s Jewish Museum. |
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| Daniel Libiskind’s Jewish Museum. |
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| The never-ending staircase of Jewish Culture |
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| Daniel Libiskind’s Jewish Museum. |
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| Daniel Libiskind’s Jewish Museum. |
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| Daniel Libiskind’s Jewish Museum. |
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| The Post World War 2 Disapora – note old South African Flag… |
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| Daniel Libiskind’s Jewish Museum. |
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| Daniel Libiskind’s Jewish Museum. |
This has the powerful effect of bringing home the feelings of those lost.
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| Daniel Libiskind’s Jewish Museum. |
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| CheckPoint Charlie |
The most tourist part of the trip. What is is most interesting is the crazy picture taking, Starbucks, McDonalds and other global brands that dominate this space.
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| Lest we forget our current fascist leaders – Mugabe hiding in the background |
Potsdamme – Einstein Mendelsohn Solar Observatory
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| Einstein Mendelsohn Solar Observatory |
An architectural visit to Berlin would not be complete with out visiting the most phalic architectural building ever created
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| Einstein Mendelsohn Solar Observatory |
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| Einstein Mendelsohn Solar Observatory |
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| Einstein Mendelsohn Solar Observatory |
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| Einstein Mendelsohn Solar Observatory |
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| Einstein Mendelsohn Solar Observatory |
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| Einstein Mendelsohn Solar Observatory |
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| Le Corbusier House |
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| Le Corbusier House |
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| Le Corbusier House |
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| Le Corbusier House |
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| Le Corbusier House |
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| Le Corbusier House |
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| Le Corbusier House |
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| Berlin Victory Tower Column |
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| Berlin Victory Tower Column |
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| This wall perceived passers by and responded to their movements |
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| The 1957 Berlin Pavillion – now a Burger King |
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| Bebelplatz Memorial |
By far the most moving memorial I experienced in Berlin. The Bebelplatz Memorial commemorates the Book Burning that took place during the Nazi Regime.
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| Bebelplatz Memorial |
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| “That was only a prelude; where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people” Heinrich Heine |
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| Berlin Farewell – 2013 |
Jhono Bennett 