Monday saw me in Berlin
for a brief business trip. I had just a couple of hours to see the centre of
Berlin in the evening.
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| Berlin |
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| Marie-Elisabeth Lüders Building, Berlin |
The first thing that strikes
you about Berlin is the spaciousness of the city. The area taken up by parks is
enormous.
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| Marie-Elisabeth Lüders Building, Berlin |
I just had time to see the area around the
Reichstag and Potsdamer Plaz. Here the architectural
use of steel and glass is absolutely mind
blowing, especially the Sony Centre.
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| Near the Reichstag, Berlin |
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Near the Reichstag, Berlin
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The multi level train
station Haupbanhof is an engineering masterpiece, with the office blocks
bridging over the tracks, the slender columns rising up from the basement and
the sea of point supported glass.
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| Haupbanhof, Berlin |
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| Haupbanhof, Berlin |
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| Haupbanhof, Berlin |
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| Haupbanhof, Berlin |
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| Haupbanhof, Berlin |
Forster’s Reichstag dome
is a bit hard to appreciate from the outside, but it must be impressive to walk
up the spiral walkway in the roof.
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| Reichstag, Berlin |
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| Reichstag, Berlin |
The Sony Centre lit up at
night is an incredible experience, a feast of coloured light. The dome with the
suspended point in the middle is also a great piece of structural engineering.
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| Sony Centre, Berlin |
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| Sony Centre, Berlin |
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| Sony Centre, Berlin |
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| Sony Centre, Berlin |
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| Sony Centre, Berlin |
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| Sony Centre, Berlin |
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| Sony Centre, Berlin |
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| Sony Centre, Berlin |
I just had my humble little
second hand Lumix GF3 with a kit lens which lives in my briefcase to take these pictures. Considering
the light quality and level, it acquitted itself quite well as a travel camera.
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| The remains of the"Kaisersaal" incorporated into the Sony Centre |
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| The remains of the"Kaisersaal" incorporated into the Sony Centre |
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| The remains of the"Kaisersaal" incorporated into the Sony Centre |
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| The DB tower, Berlin |
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| The Wall, or bits of it. |
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| Brandenburg, Gate Berlin |
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| Brandenburg, Gate Berlin |
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