 Berlin
Quarter(s)
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Government Quarter
Potsdamer Platz
|  | Potsdamer Platz (5)
between 1994 and 2006
Ce vaste emplacement de 63 hectares, anéanti le 3 février 1945 en 1 heure et demie de bombardement, à la limite pendant vingt huit ans des zones russe, américaine et britannique, ne fut qu'un vide urbain absolu traversé par le Mur avec sa double gangue de béton, ses champs de mines, son système de tir automatique et ses chiens de garde.
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| Sony Center (8)
between 1996 and 2000
The Sony Center is a Sony-sponsored building complex located at the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany. It opened in 2000.
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| Daimler Chrysler Areal (10)
between 1994 and 1998
Half of the total 340,000 square metres of floor space at the 70,000 square metre large site of the DaimlerChrysler Berlin headquarters consists of offices, 30 percent consists of cultural, commercial or gastronomic facilities, and 20 percent of residential housing - in total, 10,000 people live and work there.
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|  | Marlene-Dietrich-Platz (4)
between 1994 and 1998
La Marlene-Dietrich-Platz est bordée à l'ouest par le Musical Theater et le Casino (Spielbank), deux édifices conçus par Renzo Piano. L'emploi d'un revêtement gris métal, fait référence à la Staatsbibliothek de Scharoun située à proximité.
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|  | Lenné Triangle (4)
Lenné Dreeick
between 1997 and 2003
The "Lenné Dreeick" was named in honour of Peter Joseph Lenné, the designer of Tiergarten, the city's central park. Located directly at the north side of Potsdamer Platz, it lay as fallow wasteland until the fall of the Wall, for though it was not actually surrounded by the Wall the triangular area between Ebertstrasse, Bellevuestrasse and Lennéstrasse officially belonged to East Berlin.
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|  | Park Colonnades (1)
A+T site
between 1990 and 2000
For the site east of the new Tilla Durieux Park, the Italian architect Grassi suggested a strictly disciplined and symmetrical series of five buildings, the H-shaped ground plan of which is broken only at the northern main building and the southern residential building.
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Unter den Linden
|  | Gendarmenmarkt (12)
around 1680
"Gendarmenmarkt" was once nothing more than simple meadows and farmland abutting the original city walls of Berlin, eventually gaining its name from the Regiment of the "Military King" Friedrich Wilhelms the First, who had his stables - the "Gens d'armes" - here in 18th Century.
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|  | Unter den Linden and around (29)
1573
A boulevard of linden trees was planted from 1647 before the gates of the city by the Great Elector, who wanted to ride from his castle to the hunting grounds in the Tiergarten more comfortably. Over the course of its long history, this stretch became the best known and grandest street in Berlin.
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Kreuzberg
|  | Kreuzberg (7)
Kreuzberg consists of two different parts, the south-eastern SO 36 and the south-west SW 61. These designations refer to the old postal codes for the two areas in West Berlin. Kreuzberg has emerged from its history as one of the poorest quarters in Berlin in the late 1970s, where it was an isolated section of West Berlin to one of Berlin's cultural centers in the middle of the reunified city.
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Kulturforum
|  | Kulturforum (6)
The Kulturforum is a collection of cultural buildings in Berlin, Germany. It was built up in the 1950s and 60s at the edge of West Berlin, after most of the once unified city's cultural assets had been lost behind the Berlin Wall.
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Tiergarten
Friedrichstraße and Spandauer Vorstadt
|  | Friedrichstraße and around (11)
The Friedrichstraße is a major culture and shopping street in central Berlin, forming the core of the Friedrichstadt neighborhood. It runs from the northern part of the old Mitte district (north of which it is called Chausseestraße) to the Hallesches Tor in the district of Kreuzberg.
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|  | Spandau (9)
Spandauer Vorstadt
Spandau is the fifth and westernmost borough (Bezirk) of Berlin, situated at the confluence of the Havel and Spree rivers and along the western bank of the Havel.
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Alexanderplatz Nikolaiviertel
Kurfürstendamm
|  | Kurfürstendamm (4)
1542
The Kurfürstendamm, known locally as the Ku'damm, is one of the most famous avenues in Berlin, Germany. The street takes its name from the former Kurfürsten (Electors) of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Museums Island
|  | Museums Island (1)
Museumsinsel
between 1824 and 1930
The Berlin Museumsinsel is a complex of buildings
composed of individual museums of outstanding historical and artistic importance located in the heart of the city.
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