Article: Art Nouvel. (interior design for shops by designer Jean Nouvel)

In east Berlin, a new development of shops, offices and apartments by Jean Nouvel brings a very Gallic form of glamour to one of the main thoroughfares.

Berlin, both united and torn apart, is peculiarly eloquent of history and the anguish of division. It is a city of echoes. They reverberate down the years as you look over the vast plain under construction that is the Potsdamer Platz in east Berlin - at the beginning of the century one of the liveliest squares in Europe - or glimpse the revolt in graffitti covering a fragment of Wall, or tread no-man's-land in the company of ghosts at Checkpoint Charlie. Preserved in literature and film, the old border post is marked ...

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