Berlin.

Trabant - Berlin.

Brandenburg Gate, Berlin.

The Quadriga atop the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin.

The Quadriga atop the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin.

Quadriga atop the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin.

Hotel Adlon, just north of the Brandenburg Gate

Hotel Adlon, near the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin.

Building works on the Unter Den Linden, Berlin.

All around the city, building work continues to transform the city.

Along the Strasse des 17 Juni towards the Siegessaule Statue, Berlin.

Berliner Dom

Completed in 1905. The Fernsehturm (Television Tower, completed 1969) to the right.

The Zeughaus on Unter Den Linden, Berlin.

Completed in 1706 as an Armoury and now the Museum of German History.

DB Building, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin.

The Zeughaus On Unter Den Linden, Berlin.

Friedrichswerder Church, Berlin.

Completed in 1831.

Park Inn Hotel near Alexanderplatz, Berlin.

125 metres high, 37 storeys - completed in 1970 to be used originally by Comecon members (Eastern bloc economic committee). Now owned by Blackstone (what isn't?) the hotel is operated by Radisson Group under the Park Inn brand.

Linkstrasse Buildings, Berlin.

Daimler Offices and Retail Blocks - designed by Richard Rogers & completed 1999

Blocks of the Berlin Wall on display near the Potsdamer Platz, Berlin.

DB Buiding, Potsdamer Platz on a late December afternoon

Telephoto from Kollhof Building past DB Building across the Tiergarten with the House of World Cultures in middle to left of DB Building..

The Church of The Holy Ghost (Heilege-Geist-Gemeinde) with what appears to be a green steeple is visible in middle background. It is actually brown brick coloured with a maintenance netting over the building works in progress at the time.

Blocks of the Berlin Wall on display near the Potsdamer Platz, Berlin.

Photo board of "no mans land" between East & West Berlin during the 1970's displayed on Ebertstrasse, Berlin (yellow dot marks the viewer's location)

The obscenity of the Berlin Wall.

Photo Board showing the Berlin Wall dividing East and West Berlin.

The Haus Huth (also known as Weinhaus Huth) was one of a very few buildings in this area that survived the second world war and is now part of the Daimler group of buildings around the Potsdamer Platz, along Linkstrasse. See next photo of the same building in current times.

Looking towards the Television Tower from Unter Den Linden, Berlin.

Potsdamer Platz, Berlin.

The Kollhof Building, the DB building and the Ritz Carlton Hotel (left to right).