Potsdamer Platz
area, Berlin, Germany
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post-unification construction
- In Germany: Architecture of Germany
After unification the long-deserted Potsdamer Platz in the heart of Berlin, once a focus of Berlin’s economic and administrative life, came alive with the construction of an array of public and private buildings by internationally renowned architects such as Renzo Piano, Helmut Jahn, and Richard Rogers. After somewhat acrimonious…
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significance to Berlin
- In Berlin: The city layout
…of Hitler’s bunker and the Potsdamer Platz, once the city’s busiest traffic hub. Before its collapse, the East German government had bulldozed the bunker area and begun erecting apartment buildings. Archaeologists reopened the underground complex, which has again become a focus of historical examination. Since the removal of the wall,…
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