BERLIN - the update thread

[Grumpy]

Originally Posted by khazars

@ Grumpy, any idea when Molkenmarkt will start, I read somewhere not to 2012 will construction start. The area certainly needs it with that huge Gruner strasse cutting through it like the berlin wall.

There are plans to cut it back with 30m but I haven't found any official date for the construction start

Originally Posted by khazars

Pertaining to the picture you posted, It loooks like either the Stadtbahn line or possibly the U1 line? But I really don't know!

It sure looks like an disused line and there comes only one line to mind if this used to be an S-bahn line: somewhere north west of Jungfernheide

[khazars]

Originally Posted by Grumpy

It sure looks like an disused line and there comes only one line to mind if this used to be an S-bahn line: somewhere north west of Jungfernheide

It could be the Siemens line, that's up there near Jungfernheide!

in this map you can see the three old disused stations "Gartenfeld, Siemensstadt, and Wernerwerk" near Siemensdamn and Rohrdamm on the U7 line!


http://www.berliner-stadtplan.com/

[khazars]

A new building project to start end of 2008 at kommandant str at Alte Jakob strasse?

It looks smashing!

http://www.deutsches-architektur-for...t=4736&page=60


http://www.fellini-residences.com/


It also appears work is about to start on the Hackescher Markt area?


http://home.arcor.de/miravos/hacke/hacke3.html


http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/6558/hack1li7.jpg

http://img451.imageshack.us/img451/3017/hack2hx5.jpg


A new hotel to be built by Easyjet on Rosenthaler strasse!


http://www.schmitzundsachse.com/refe....php?ref_ID=59


There are also quite a few other building projects either started or about to start in and around Rosenthaler strasse!


http://www.deutsches-architektur-for...ead.php?t=7275

[Grumpy]

Fellini give the city an Parisian look , vraiment chique



Talking about a huge contrast to be here, look at the plattenbau at the end of the rendering

[khazars]

that last rendering of Hackesher Markt is so much better looking than the previous ones posted, I take it this is how it will be built?

What is plattenbau? I googled it and it says disk building?

Thx for posting the pics!

[khazars]

Some pics courtesy from the link below of the townhouses!


http://freenet-homepage.de/luzbelito...swerder26.html

[Grumpy]

^^ great photos ,


There is a project that I am very interested in but I cannot find any english text, the Spreebalkon.

here some photos:







remains of the Brommybrücke clearly visible:

[Grumpy]

This is a great site with stunning pictures :

Explorations of an Urban Conversion

[Grumpy]

@ khazars , you know immediatly what this is

Actually under renovation:

[khazars]

I found this translated from German about the spree balcony/brommybrucke!

http://translate.google.co.uk/transl...ial%26hs%3D6vk

I wonder when they will build the brommybrucke and I would imagine they will rebuild the bridge at am Koln park near Markisches museum?


that pic looks like the Germania thing for testing the strength of the soil?

cheers

[khazars]

This link below is good for old Berlin maps, one can see how the area East of the Alex was demolished for the commy block planning in the mid 1960s and all the old streets were totally lost!

http://www.alt-berlin.info/pages/index.htm


A good link below for a 3d and 2d digital model of Berlin!


http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.d...-st2_ost.shtml

[khazars]

Moabiter Spreebogen! Construction is meant to start 2010?

Click on architecture for pics!

http://www.campanile101.de/

[one very bored guy]

I hope they tidy up around that Spreebalkon otherwise it would look silly. It certainly needs new stonework.

[Grumpy]

I remember the Campanile project under another name and honestly I am really surprised to see this tower getting built.
What a fine location

[Grumpy]

The Alexanderplatz towers are still planned but honestly it is getting very out of date with those proposals and I would rather see towers built on another location.




Perhaps near the HBF (who is in my opinion a complete waste of money) , a fourth city centre could be a good idea though.
Where the covered tracks of the S-bahn are create a artificial lake to make an "fake island" as a remembrance of the many waterways in the city,
towers look much better in the vicinity of water:

[Grumpy]

kompetenzzentrum-medizintechnik



webcam

[Grumpy]

Spreedreieck

Originally Posted by necrophagist

[Grumpy]

Want some great photography ?

Berlin in 360°

[Grumpy]

I must visit this later this year:

Exhibition ] Myth Germania [ Shadows and traces of the Imperial Capital

Period : Mar. 15th, 2008 – Dec. 31st, 2008 (Dec 24th-26th, 2008 closed)
Opening hours : 11am – 7pm (daily)
Admission : 6 Euro, reduced 4 Euro
Where : Pavillon Gertrud-Kolmar-Straße 14 (Corner Hannah-Arendt-Straße) ,10117 Berlin-Mitte

Berliner Unterwelten

[Grumpy]

A new project in the Mediaspree area:





Messehotel (?)