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Fine tuning

How the GDR’s vast broadcasting house has been restored as a thriving arts hub.

  • Issue #110
  • 8 min read
Fine tuning
Design

People’s palace: Henselmann Tower

Berlin's Karl-Marx-Allee was the GDR's most famous street, lined with socialist ‘palaces of the workers’. Today these apartment blocks, particularly the Henselmann Tower, attract a discerning and creative community.

  • Issue #90
  • 13 min read
People’s palace: Henselmann Tower
Politics

Expo 44: The Call of Berlin

During East Germany's socialist era, workers from Mozambique and Vietnam came to the GDR. When the Wall fell, they faced the decision of whether to stay or leave their adopted home.

  • Issue #44
  • 12 min read
Expo 44: The Call of Berlin

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