IMG: Berlin - some modern and inhuman architecture

Hello all,
some more shots of Berlin form the day after we met the Hoppies (GeofF and Bron Hopkinson from Australia).
Mostly shot in rotten weather - it rained nearly all day - so they look better (IMO) in black and white.
A stallholder on the Sunday fleamarket in the centre of Berlin resolutely waiting for the rain to stop 
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9836.jpg.html

Tiergarten S-Bahn station in the rain
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9841.jpg.html

The top level of the new station
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9843.jpg.html

Inside the station
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9845.jpg.html
The new station is incredibly modern, lots of metal and glass, and on four levels. My knees turn to jelly when I look over the balustrade to see the platforms of the lowest level about 40 metres below. 

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9847.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9849.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9850-Edit.jpg.html
A most confusing place, if you are in a hurry to catch a train you have no chance of finding out where it is, but at least you can watch it leaving without you 

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9851-Edit.jpg.html
Almost on the ground floor that leads out to the River Spree and the federal government quarter 

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9854.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9856.jpg.html
I get the impression it wasn't built for people - the perspectives are somehow alien and the lighting is all wrong, 

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9858-Edit.jpg.html

and trains coming in over your head don't make it better
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9859.jpg.html

It even looks threatening from outside

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9872.jpg.html

The neighbourhood is pretty desolate too

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9880.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9882.jpg.html

But, sometimes, you get a touch of the old fashioned like this,
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9886.jpg.html

and a view across to the East German lollipop on Alexander Platz

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_Berlin__MG_9890.jpg.html

Cheers
Douglas










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