Berlin architecture

Read on to discover 25 works of architecture by Bauhaus and Modernist masters, along with contemporary architects, to be visited in Berlin, Germany.

One of the things I love about Berlin is that many of the buildings are either hundreds of years old, or ultra-modern. Below you’ll find one photograph in particular that for me sums up the beauty of architecture in Berlin: a minimalist black apartment building sharing a wall with an abandoned, deteriorating, graffitied squatter house....

Large The reading hall of the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, the new central library of the Humboldt university in Berlin. It is 70m long, 12m wide and 20m high. The new building was designed by architect Max Dudler. Picture taken during the public opening. Lesesaal im Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, aufgenommen am Tag der offenen Tür. Unterwegs mit Ole Begemann.

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David Chipperfield Architects' Berlin office restores and upgrades Mies's landmark museum with intelligence and restraint.

Image 2 of 17 from gallery of The Beauty in the Imperfections of Ruins in Architecture. © Erica Overmeer

Extreme cantilever alert! A four-storey block with a mirrored underside juts out from the top of a Berlin hotel, 25 metres above the ground (photos by Roland Halbe). The huge cantilever comprises the upper floors of the eleven-storey NHow Hotel, which was designed by German architects NPS Tchoban Voss. The end of the cantilever is

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Completed in 1963 in Berlin, Germany. Hans Scharoun is a well known German architect best known for his design of the Berlin Philharmonic concert hall in Berlin, Germany. Completed...