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Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:11:01 +0100

Berlin at night from space, with the old west and east still...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:26:05 +0100

Berlin at night from space, with the old west and east still visible:

“Berlin was divided into two parts for over 40 years,” explains Christa Mientus-Schirmer of Berlin’s city government. “And although we’ve made a lot of progress in the 20 years since the wall fell, we haven’t had the money we would have liked to equalise the two parts of the city.”

Daniela Augenstine, of the city’s street furniture department, says: “In the eastern part there are sodium-vapour lamps with a yellower colour. And in the western parts there are fluorescent lamps – mercury arc lamps and gas lamps – which all produce a whiter colour.” The western Federal Republic of Germany long favoured non-sodium lamps on the grounds of cost, maintenance and carbon emissions, she says.

Guardian quote via chriswoebken.

hijaktaffairs: daniel rich berlin tegel enamel on...

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:04:15 +0000

hijaktaffairs:

daniel rich

berlin tegel

enamel on wood

Everyone loves an airport.

Yvette Mattern’s Global Rainbow over the Reichstag, with...

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:28:00 +0000

Yvette Mattern’s Global Rainbow over the Reichstag, with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt visible in the background.

Lineposters, prints of city transit systems around the world,...

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:36:05 +0000

Lineposters, prints of city transit systems around the world, for sale at Etsy.

Stimmungsgasometer, a project by Richard Wilhelmer, Julius von...

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:18:04 +0100

Stimmungsgasometer, a project by Richard Wilhelmer, Julius von Bismarck and Benjamin Maus from Berlin in 2008.

Via We Make Money Not Art’s review of A Touch Of Code. Image by Julius von Bismarck, from Eat Your Heart Out.

Kottbusser Tor. taken by gaetano massa meet frank pettinato, but...

Sat, 28 May 2011 04:45:00 +0100

Kottbusser Tor. taken by gaetano massa meet frank pettinato, but reposted to ESI and hence Berlin Stories.

"Ddid you know that there still is a Pan Am lounge in West Berlin? It used to be a penthouse..."

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 05:23:12 +0000

“Ddid you know that there still is a Pan Am lounge in West Berlin? It used to be a penthouse apartment for pilots and flight attendants. Today, it’s a party and event location and they’ve kept the original style of the 60ies.”

- David Noël in On This Day Today: 1966. (The whole thing is worth a read for the story of a Pan Am plane crash in East Germany.)

The lounge, on Budapester Straße 43 near Wittenbergplatz U-Bahn has a Flash site (which I didn’t bother looking at), but it’s also covered Ultraswank. It seems to be private, but they (used to) occasionally host jazz nights. Seems like it might be worth looking out for.

An ICE at Berlin Hauptbahnhof, as seen in this excellent Tony...

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:29:00 +0100

An ICE at Berlin Hauptbahnhof, as seen in this excellent Tony Judt article (to which I may return) in the New York Review of Books.

Photograph: Paul Langrock/Zenit/laif/Redux.

Solar panels on the roof of Berlin Hauptbahnhof, looking down at...

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:28:00 +0100

Solar panels on the roof of Berlin Hauptbahnhof, looking down at an ICE on the tracks below. Photograph by Paul Langrock/DB AG.