After 1990, the square became the focus of attention again, since it was an attractive location suddenly near the center of the city. The city government chose to divide the area into four parts, each to be sold to a commercial investor, which then planned new construction. During the building-phase the Potsdamer Platz was the largest building site in Europe.
The largest of these four parts went to Daimler-Benz, now part of Daimler-Chrysler, who charged Renzo Piano with creating a master plan for the new construction. The individual buildings were then built by many individual architects according to that plan. This includes the remarkable Potsdamer Platz No. 1 by Hans Kolhoff, now home to a number of prestigious law firms (in the photo on the right, the tall brick building in the center).
The second largest part went to Sony, which erected its new European headquarters there. This new Sony Center by Helmut Jahn, an impressive, yet light monolith of glass and steel (the rightmost building in the picture on the right), is considered by many to be one of the finest piece of modern architecture in Berlin.
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Sony Wonder Technology Lab
Sony Wonder Technology Lab is a favorite destination for New Yorkers and out-of-town guests. You can experiment with robotics, explore the human body through medical imaging, edit a music video, mix a hit song, design a video game, and save the day at an environmental command center.
The line to enter to the lab can be long. While waiting you will notice a robot who entertain the prople while they wait. When you finally enter the building, with ticket in hand, you will lead to a small holding area and given bar-coded cards to swipe and
The Palast der Republik (Palace of the Republic) is a building in Berlin, on the bank of the River Spree, and on Schlossplatz (called Marx-Engels-Platz from 1951 to 1994). It served as the parliament building for the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
It was constructed in the 1970s in the prevailing style for East German buildings, with bronze mirrored windows. In 1976 the Volkskammer moved in. It was built on the site of the old Berliner Stadtschloss (Berlin City Palace), which was damaged during World War II but finally demolished by the GDR authorities in 1950 as a symbol of Prussian imperialism.
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The Zoologischer Garten Berlin (zoological garden Berlin) is one of the biggest zoos in Germany and the one with the largest number of species of the world. It is located in Berlin Tiergarten near the homonymous S-Bahn and railway station in the city center. One of the Germany's first zoos, it was opened in 1844 on the initiative of Alexander von Humboldt and the Africa researcher Lichtenstein, who served as the first director of the zoo. Still before ten years the area was round around the station zoo-logical garden 33 an area, which many citizens of Berlin avoided rather. As
The museum in the water company Friedrichshagen is because of the north bank of the Müggelsees between the local parts Friedrichshagen and Rahnsdorf. It shows the history of the water supply and waste water disposal of Berlin. A group piston steam engine from the year 1893 can be demonstrated the visitors. The entire plant stands under monument protection. The museum is in the former drawing turbine house B of the water company Müggelsee.
Been in the water company Friedrichshagen, directly because of the Müggelsee, is in historical buildings the museum and historical archives of the citizens of Berlin of water
