Potsdamer Platz

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architectural, urban, contemporary

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Europe's busiest square was a grassy no-man's-land in 1990 — today it's a showcase of what ambition can build on the ruins of ideology.

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Berlin's newest quarter, built on terrain once bisected by the Wall just south of the Brandenburger Tor. After 1989, international starchitects including Helmut Jahn, Renzo Piano and Rafael Moneo turned the former death strip into a dynamic urban quarter. A short walk reveals outdoor sculptures by Keith Haring, Jeff Koons and others scattered across the DaimlerCity precinct.

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