Spring and summer are the obvious choices to enjoy one of Europe’s greenest cities. Now that the winters of knee-deep snow ...

Berlin, Germany – When David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour arrived in West Berlin on June 6, 1987, the city was the world’s de facto capital of geopolitical turmoil, cleft in two physically and ...

And finally, one of the last stops on the tour is Potsdamer Platz, a “ghost station” in East Berlin in Bowie’s day, but today a busy, buzzing square. It haunted him, we know.

Berlin’s East Side Gallery is a long stretch of wall segments muraled shortly after the reunification by over 100 artists from more than twenty countries. Photo: Nick Hilden It’s been 35 years ...

In one, men in suits are seen from behind as they stand atop a platform looking east toward the construction site at Potsdamer Platz at a skyline dominated by construction cranes.

Berlin has busied itself since the fall of its infamous Wall with becoming one of the most stimulating creative and cultural ...

The Berlin Marriott Hotel is located at the pulsating Potsdamer Platz and is built right on the remnants of the former Wall where East and West unite. The hotel is within walking distance of the ...

I n a conference room in Berlin, around the corner from Potsdamer Platz, a German journalist called Peter Brinkmann is telling me how he helped bring down the Berlin Wall. It’s a story I’ve ...

Potsdamer Platz was razed during World War II and redeveloped after the reunification of East and West Berlin in 1990. The site of the old Berlin Wall, Potsdamer Platz entailed rebuilding the heart of ...

A lesser-known fact is that not far from Potsdamer Platz, on the grounds of the "Topography of Terror" documentation centre on Niederkirchnerstraße, a 200-metre-long original piece of the Berlin Wall ...