Royal Red Station
Königsroter Bahnhof
Did the 'royal red' limestone in the Bahnhof Mohrenstr underground station come from Hitler's Reich Chancellery?
Did the 'royal red' limestone in the Bahnhof Mohrenstr underground station come from Hitler's Reich Chancellery?
A giant face stared out at us from the wall of the building. In a city full of graffiti, the work was stunning for the quality of its portraiture. Excited,…
Strangers in Berlin generally didn't tell us what they thought of us, but a bank officer inadvertently did.
It was drizzly, gray and wintery when we headed out to the Rathaus Neukölln. The heavily-pedestrianised Karl-Marx Strasse sidewalks had been narrowed by mounds of gray ice that had earlier…
When news of a coffee shop ('cannabis cafe') opening in Kreuzberg broke in August 2013, arguments for and ...
An audio slideshow about living in Neukölln, part of my series on my Kiez (neighbourhood), Neukölln, which explores notions of belonging.
Good music from a stage near the 19th-century Neptunbrunnen (Neptune Fountain) in Mitte, prompted me to sit down on a bench in front of the allegorical figure of Oder. I…
It is a single gray cuboid that references the 2,700 gray slabs across the road. As per its official description, it reflects how “we are the same .. human beings,…
In Prussian times, the square after which this underground station was named, served as Berlin's bailiwick.