Random impressions from a recent visit to Berlin. The city never ceases to impress, in one way or another. Since leaving Berlin, I´ve lived in Chicago and presently live in Vienna. Both cities have very pretty general aesthetics and architectural highlights, Berlin on the other hand has a hard time pleasing the visitors eye. But dig deeper and the reward will arise. 

An uncoventional garden around some unconventional

and incoherent architecture

A construction site, an elevated train, a mosque and some featureless

buildings sprawling around. A typical urban scene.

An indoor flea market

A former problem school in a socially neglected neighborhood

has transformed into a model compound

Where three districts meet. One of the hotspots during the Berlin Wall era,

the scarring the unnatural boundary left behind can still be seen.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels are still philosophical and political favorites.

A monument in the downtown area.

Saint George. Apart from churches there are not many

Christian displays in a mostly unreligious city.

Highrises with river view

A power plant that´s also used as a culture venue

The flat structure in the foreground: unspectacular at first sight,

but a highlight of early 20th Century residence architecture.

Mies van der Rohes Landhaus Lemke of 1932/33.

Inspired by Danish Renaissance Castle architecture -

the huge medical institution compound of Berlin-Buch

Neo-Gothical church tower of the Bethany Church.

The nave has been destroyed in WWII.

stay tuned for part 2