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Article: In Pariser Platz.(design and construction of town square in Berlin, Germany)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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In attempting to make a formal front for the Dresdner Bank on Pariser Platz, Berlin's poshest piazza, Volkwin Marg may have embraced neo-Classicism a little too fervently. But the interior is an unexpected, ingenious pleasure.
Pariser Platz is the square immediately behind the Brandenburg Gate as you approach the centre of Berlin from the Tiergarten. The NeoClassical Gate(1) was the main one in the western side of the customs(2) wall that surrounded the city in the eighteenth century, and the Platz is at the west end of Unter den Linden, the ceremonial axis of the city, down which the victorious troops of all regimes from the Hohenzollerns to the DDR have marched ...