Star architects build the future
In the East, the GDR had demonstrated with Stalinallee just what fantastic architecture it was capable of building: palaces for the working class! The West had to respond.
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Hansaviertel
Hansaviertel
Hansaviertel
Hansaviertel
Hansaviertel
Hansaviertel
Hansaviertel
Hansaviertel
Hansaviertel
Hansaviertel
In the Hansaviertel, a formerly upper-class district that had been almost completely destroyed during the war, housing was now to be built for people with limited means. But while the East looked back to socialist classicism, West Berlin invited the who’s who of modernist architects. And they all came!
Experience urban masterpieces by Le Corbusier, Oskar Niemeyer, Alvar Aalto, Walter Gropius, Wils Ebert, Egon Eiermann, and Wassili Luckhardt. And delight in an architectural landscape into which the Tiergarten forest seems to flow. A truly idyllic anti-urbanity right in the heart of Berlin.
As a perfect complement to this tour, the organizers highly recommend the Karl-Marx-Tour, because without the former Stalinallee, the Hansaviertel would not exist in its current form. After these tours, you will understand why these two neighborhoods—these “two sides of the same coin”—will soon be designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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Meeting point: in front of the Grips Theater, Altonaer Str. 22, 10557 Berlin, near Hansaplatz
