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Architecture & the built city

How Berlin was planned, built, bombed and rebuilt.

Architecture & the built city1899–1930 Alfred Grenander designed 61 Berlin U-Bahn stations. Fifty-nine are still in service.

Architecture & the built city1927–2024 The plan to rebuild Europe’s largest department store put 80 % more floor on the block — and less than a fifth of it selling floor

Architecture & the built city1991–2003 Berlin’s Chancellery is not eight White Houses. It is 10.2 — or 0.94

Architecture & the built city1874–1908 Berlin built itself a Middle Ages

Architecture & the built city1963–1974 West Berlin built a good 17,000 flats here — and left five sixths of the ground open

Architecture & the built city1882–1999 Wallot won the Reichstag with a dome that could not be built

Architecture & the built city1866–1912 Hobrecht cut Berlin into twelve drainage systems. Not one of them sent its sewage across the Spree

Architecture & the built city1880–1899 Berlin’s building law required one yard 5.34 metres square. Riehmer built two private streets instead.

Architecture & the built city1709–2001 Wedding and Gesundbrunnen held 356 people in 1817 and 240,662 in 1910. The same ground, 676 times over

Architecture & the built city1894–1999 Fifty years after a Soviet banner flew from its roof, the Reichstag vanished under fabric. Four years later, parliament moved in beneath glass