Lars Lapsus' photostream

Schlossplatz Berlin, temporäre Grünfläche. See www.flickr.com/photos/8013768@N05/3728418731/. Im Hintergrund der Neue Marstall (Musikhochschule Hanns Eisler).

Schlossplatz Berlin, temporäre Grünfläche. See www.flickr.com/photos/8013768@N05/3728418731/. Im Hintergrund das Staatsratsgebäude der DDR, heute private Wirtschaftsuni.

Near Görlitzer Park

Wrangelkietz

New temporary green space by Relais landscape architects (here still under construction). Lawn with linear timber walkways, which in their crude materiality express the temporality of the project. This will demolished again to make place for a reconstruction of the City Palace (though only 3 façades will copy the historical castle).
This is the site of the recently demolished GDR's Palast der Republik, which was built on the site of the City Palace, which had been severly damaged during the war and then itself been demolished in 1950 by the authorities. In the central background: the former GDR Council of State building, now a private university (MBA etc.). Left corner: Neuer Marstall (New Royal Stables) now Academy of Music. In the right background there is a brick church by Schinkel and a fake façade of the Bauakademie (partly behind a blue poster), which will also be reconstructed from scratch. To make people get used to it and strop the criticism, one corner tower has already been built and the rest of the building was put up as a giant poster; psychological warfare?
Apparently the 19th century is seen as the main reference for the future image of the German capital. Her heart will be a newly erected, eclectic, half reconstructed Hohenzollern castle, housing a cultural & conference centre and mayor collections of the Berlin State museums. What a token gesture!