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176 S. : zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.; 31 cm; kart.

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Gutes Ex.; Einband etwas berieben. - Englisch. - The section of Potsdamer Platz where debis was active is no longer a building site. Since it opened on October 2nd it has been permanently crowded. Renzo Piano's urban concept is beingtested and found good; it is only the architecture critics who are still searching for words. Opposite, amidst the Kulturforum, Berlin's new painting gallery opened on June 12th. It will now accommodate the reunited collections from East and West Berlin. For the first time in their history, the famous paintings now have their own light-flooded building. And, forthe first time, Berlin has a Grimshaw. The Ludwig Erhard House for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, for which plans were overturned and revised three times, can again be seen as a real Grimshaw, with glass walkways, stainless steel feet and wood-lined panorama lifts. It is not so easy to assign the most recent buildings around Friedrichstrasse and Pariser Platz exactly to this or that architect. Marble, granite and bronze, atria, roof terraces and double-layer glass -building in superlatives at the very best of Berlin's addresses has made all the It is still not clear what names Alexanderplatz will one day be linked with. Who has something to say on the subject? Opinions and prejudices have been collected. Berlin's greatly loved urban railway is travelling on new rails over old viaducts through renovated stations. A long essay has been dedicated to the subject. Three people voice parallel opinions on one and the same theme: "The Old Suburb in a Modern Setting." In Adlershof, in the scientific community that is in the making on the former Johannisthal airfield, high-tech research establishments and high-tech buildings are springing up between thrift plants, uncultivated heathland, and experimental buildings dating from the 1930s and the 1950s. Here, Berlin is still very much Berlin. Who or what has contributed to the changes in Berlin? The chronology of building events for each day from January to December 1998 gives a record, and comments on the developments. Who is building what?This again is listed in the directory of Berlin's new buildings. ? (Verlagstext) / INHALT : ? The Capital's progressing: On the Site of the Chancellor's Office Building and at the Federal President's Office in Tiergarten -- Potsdamer Platz, October 1998: Renzo Piano's debis Section is completed Voices from Alexanderplatz -- Visiting Berlin's New Gemaldegalerie by Hilmer and Sattler Nicholas Grimshaw's New Building for the Berlin Chamber of Commerce -- New Halls for the Funkturm Fairgrounds by 0. M. Lingers Restoration of Berlin's Urban Railroad and Its Stations -- Adlershof, the Science City -- Latest Buildings at Friedrichstrasse and at Pariser Platz by -- Lauber & Wohr, Thomas van den Valentyn, Patzschke, Klotz and Partners, -- Wilhelm Holzbauer, Jurgen Bb'ge + Ingeborg Lindner-Boge, Petra and Paul Kahlfeldt, -- Benedict Tonon, Engel Kraemer Zimmermann, Ortner & Ortner, -- von Gerkan, Marg and Partners, Bernhard Winking, J. P. Kleihues, Frank 0. Gehry -- In the Heart of Urban Development: Hohenschonhausen and Hellersdorf -- Old Suburb, Up to Date Chronology of Building Events: January to December 1998 -- Berlin's New Buildings 1997/1998 -- (u.a.) ISBN 9783764360153