Yep On a sidenote (I am going to post this at some other places, too) I dislike Bigsoccers policy regarding NSR topics. Look at what happened to the German music thread, just nobody sees it there anymore, there is imho too much posted from American points of view for the non-american community to get into any discussion besides soccer. I would love to have a German board subforum for NSR threads, if you don't want those in the main forum.
Nope. Quite sober. There's a nudist area in the Tiergarten where people sunbathe naked. There's an area in the Englischergarten (sp?) in Munich as well. Very liberating!
Where else in Europe is there a concentration of skyscrapers like those in Frankfurt? A true downtown, in American parlance...
Berlin's Potsdamer Platz may become close to it...lot of construction there, already 4-5 towers, probably more to come. Not to mention the TV tower (name SubPop I forgot...) and near Europacenter. Not intimidating towers, but tall enough.
Berlin will never look as Frankfurt. It si for sure different, propably bigger and nicer, but for sure different, and will never be able to compete when it comes to skyscrapers... (that from a guy who hates Frankfurt)
Never said it would, Potsdamer Platz may come close, but that kind of ruins the European flavor of Berlin...Berlin has some nice buildings, some not so nice (East German Palace *bleh* is worse than some of the modern *bleh* buildings in Boston), but its part of the atmosphere, and having skyscrapers take away from it. Case in point: Boston's Oldest Church is right next to the John Hancock Tower, the tallest building in US east of New York. THe Church would have been so much out of place if it was surrounded by buildings like that, fortunately, the Old Euro architecture of Newbury Street save it a bit.
Definitely a lot of cranes in Berlin. I've been up in the TV tower. The sheer size and expanse of Berlin is impressive.
I didn't hold much hope when I went there for the CC semi-final, but I was quite surprised by the place. It is a lot better than I had anticipated and is definately not ugly.
Yep! I will post some pics of cities with Bundesliga teams that haven't been metioned: Bielefeld: Bielefeld Pano pics of Mönchengladbach Dortmund: over 6000 pics of Dortmund! pics of Nuremberg pics of Kaiserslautern Duisburg Mainz is quite nice pics of Wolsburg Leverkusen
The TV Tower is a direct translation "Fernsehturm" Oh, and are you dissing on the Palast der Republik?...it may be ugly, but I think it should stay, as it is a part of history...its set to be torn down in November
I think it is ugly and I think, for the record, it SHOULD be torn down because it is an unwanted reminder of the Honecker era. Put something nice there, there is enough relics of East Germany in the city, like the Fernsehturm and Checkpoint Charlie and the large apartment buildings there.
it may be ugly, I can see that, but its a good example of DDR Architecture on some level. And I dont think Checkpoint Charlie is a East German relic, its more of an American relic I think...but thats just my two cents. There is actually a really good book on this topic, what should stay, what should go in terms of Nazi and DDR buildings and memorials and how to remember and just about urban landscape in general in Berlin called "Ghosts of Berlin" by a professor named Brian Ladd, which can be found at amazon.com....a good read if you want to get an interesting view in the city..just have to plug it.
I don't mind the Nazi buildings (despite its dubious history). Some of them look nice, although rather gargantuan. They use some of them, I remember Ministry of Interior was a Nazi building, although I think they have moved now...