overview the display case Mitte is the city’s most diverse district when it comes to architecture thanks to its historic buildings and newer additions, such as the renovated Reichstag, Neues Museum and Potsdamer Platz, as well as countless embassies and government buildings created by an international architectural avant-garde.
the east Friedrichshainʼs Karl-Marx-Allee, the socialist-designed boulevard and Europe’s longest monument, should be the starting point for anyone looking to explore GDR architecture. A bit further, Lichtenbergʼs Plattenbau estates provide an authentic insight into domestic life in former East Berlin.
the underdog Tiergarten’s architectural assets are often overlooked, especially the Hansaviertel. Nowhere else in the world can one appreciate the legacy of modernism’s great masters in such a diverse inhabited setting.
the activist A number of sites along Kreuzbergʼs banks of the Spree river, with their various developments and semi-legal occupants, serve as global showcases for contemporary, participatory urbanism.
the old world Charlottenburg and Schöneberg donʼt feature the density of architectural or historical showpieces you might find in other districts, but their grand, bourgeois residential Gründerzeit architecture tells many stories about life in Berlin during the Golden Years.
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