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A tale of two corners. On one side that leads to Kiel town centre's main shopping precinct is a poster for Germany's first ...
From white elephants like North Korea’s so-called ‘Hotel of Doom’ to recent embarrassments like London’s Marble Arch Mound, ...
Each year, millions of visitors enjoy the sites and the sounds of Germany. It is the heart of Europe’s industry and carries ...
A lot of old Berliners ... Post-war Berlin was divided into sectors controlled by the wartime allies. That hardened into a Cold War division that saw two separate German states founded in 1949 and ...
A lot of old Berliners are still familiar with hand ... in 1949 and ultimately led to the building in 1961 of the Berlin Wall, which fell 28 years later as communist rule collapsed in East Germany.
Graffiti marred every inch of its surface. "Love to freedom," one mark said. "Berlin ... and old took turns donning safety goggles and hurling crowbars and sledgehammers at the symbolic wall ...
Now, nearly 35 years after the Wall fell, with old divisions cropping up once again in Germany and the wider world, the story of Bowie and the Berlin Wall suggests important lessons. That there ...
Graffiti artists add a fresh design ... on a story about the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Möllering was 15 years old, living in the leafy West Berlin suburb of Lichterfelde ...
I first landed in Berlin ... until the Wall fell, after which it was squatted by the freewheeling Tacheles art collective—the name is Yiddish for “outspokenness”—whose graffiti still ...
In efforts to revitalise certain old buildings ... London, Berlin, New Zealand – and now, Hong Kong! Working in collaboration with Antoine, a fellow graffiti artist from France, this massive ...
Urban wall murals are ... especially in the ruins of old city neighborhoods awaiting demolition. His artworks feature children playing, making music and embarking on adventures. In the downtown ...