German Historical Museum and Search for Architecture

The first thing we saw this morning was the New Guard House, which was the guard house during World War I. After the fall of the German monarchy, it was commissioned to be redesigned as the building for the memorial of those who died in the war. When you walk inside all there is, is a sculpture, 'Mother with her Dead Son', and there is a hole in the ceiling above them so they are completely exposed to the elements.

Next we visisted the Geman Historical Museum by I.M.Pei. I was more interested in the architecture of the building than the actual museum. I love the twisted glass staricase that is in the front of the building and it looks even cooler on the inside. I also loved the circle cut outs in the walls.

I did enjoy some of the exhibits though. The Frederich the Great part was interesting, and I also enjoyed the fashion exhibit. Seeing the things people wore back then and how it changed over time was cool. I also was intrigued by all of the german information as well.

The different uniforms worn by the Nazis accross the country.

 Model of The Great Hall of The People planned, but never built was suppose to be the renewal of Berlin as a world capital.

 All of the different stars of david worn by jews.

The rest of the day we went around the city looking at cool building.
The Humbolt Box

 View from the top of Humbolt

 Cool chairs in the Humbolt Box

Hausburgvietrel Gymnasium is a gym we went to for the local school in the area, when we got there they were having basketball practice, and the coach who is also a german, spanish, and english teacher gave us a little tour. He said the building used to be a slaughter house in 1895, but was rebuilt in 2004-2006, but part of it still remains untouched.

 The new gym addition

This was the Velodrome and the Natatorium built for the olympic games, but were never used. One is a big rectangle and the other is a big circle, both inset into the landsscape.

The Zionskirche (Kirche is church but if said wrong you may be saying cherry) was one church that i really liked because it was in its natural state, no one had come along and made it all pretty. you can see what it looked like then and how its held up since it was built. Theres no pretty paintings, no elaborate decorations, and just a small plane piano.

The Elisabethkirche was also a very different church, instead of rebuilding it to its original state, the church has been taken over by artist, who have transformed the church into a giant art mural depicting ideas of the church and other church related things.

Slender-Bender building is an example of Ribbon Architecture but you have to look closely to be able to tell.

I'm just now realizing how long of a day this was. the very last thing we did was visit the Invalidenpark. It was a memorial to the fallen wall.