It’s always a pleasure to have a walk on the east-side. It gets even more interesting as the snow is melting and the landscape is changing, it’s like a new city emerging…
Alexanderplatz is one of the most famous landmarks in Berlin. A symbol, that has been a film, a song and a book. It’s not the typical „platz“ with trees and grass and kids playing around. It’s rather a massive concrete square with big department stores, restaurants, a skyscraper hotel and of course the „Fernsehturm“, Berlin’s urban symbol. The usual crowd consists of tourists, shoppers, skaters and the famous mobile currywurst sellers. The perpetual motion of people and trams totally in line with the city’s vibrant atmosphere, is also outlined by the World Time Clock, a continually rotating installation that shows the time throughout the world.
For some people Alex represents Berlin’s center, although Berlin is a rather multi-centered city whereas for some others is just a typical touristic attraction. For me, it is just an interesting alloy of Western and Eastern landscape architecture and as with most of the alloys it is time-resistant…
Ladies and gentleman, the white thin Duke in action….