Wednesday, 15 September 2010

To visit in Berlin / Mark 2

A lisit of various loactions/buildings/gallaries I plan to visit during my trip to Berlin in order to help inform my dissertation.

A. Priority


1. Fernsehturm (television tower) 1965-1969

2. Site of the Palace of the Republic and Schloßplatz 1973-1976


---Work of Heinz Graffunder---
3. Apartment Block on Freiedrich canal 1964-66
4. Tierpark East Berlin Zoo Restaurant Cafeteria, Alfred-Brehm Haus (tropical/cat house), designed and Dickhauterhaus (elephant/rhino house) by Heinz Graffunder and Walter Wenzel in 1963

5. Ministerium fur Gesundheitswesen der DDR (Ministry of Health of GDR) built in 1972, by Heinz Graffunder, Lothar Kohler, Dietmar Kuntzsch, Walter Wenzel.

6. Rathauspassagen, Residential block built in 1972, by Heinz Graffunder, Lothar Kohler, Dietmar Kuntzsch, Walter Wenzel.

7.Marzahn-Hellersdorf district in north-east Berlin. Heinz Graffunder was the lead architect in the expansion of the district from 1976 into the 80's transforming this once rural area into a park land of residential blocks. There is also a park of 'Scupture and Roses' dedicated to the architects work.



8. Reichstag German parliment building



--- Work of Herman Henselmann---
9. Wohnbebauung (housing development) Leninplatz 1967-1970 (since 1992 Platz der Vereinten Nationen)

10. Haus des Lehrers (house of the teacher), Alexandraplatz 1961-1964, teachers club, library and educational research

11. Frankfurter Tor 1954 -1956, Housing development with Stalinist towers

12. Wohnbebauung Strausberger Platz 1952-54, housing development

13. Hochhaus an der Weberwiese 1951-1952, prototype for the rest of karl marx allee on Gubener strasse


---Museums and Archives---

14. DDR Museum

15. Bauhaus Archive

16. German History
Museum
17. Bundesarchiv (Federal Archive) in Lichterfelde

18. Architektenkammer Berlin



B. Intrigue


1. Teufelsberg listening station - http://www.momondo.com/blogs/williamthirteen/archive/2009/11/03/listening-with-the-devil-s-ears-in-berlin.aspx

2. Stasi Museum Berlin - http://www.stasimuseum.de/en/enindex.htm

3. Soviet War Memorial, Treptower Park - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_War_Memorial_%28Treptower_Park%29

4. The Neuse Museum
5. Tempelhof Airport
6. Alexanderplatz Weltzeituhr (world time clock) 1969

7. Marx-Engels Forum 1986, park devoted to communist manifesto writers built by GDR