What to do, where to stay, and where to eat in Berlin
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A new generation of Berlin trendsetters is recasting Cold War iconography, and luxury hotels, edgy restaurants, and designer shops constantly shape and reshape the future. Find the ultimate guide to Berlin, from maps to deals to the best hotels and restaurants, right here.
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Berlin Features
- Berlin’s Culture Club March, 2007
- Two neighborhoods once split by the wall—the fashionably gentrified Mitte and the gritty, bohemian Kreuzberg—are brimming with creative energy, a thriving arts scene, and stylish hotels.
Concrete Memory March, 2005
- On a vast site in the center of Berlin, Peter Eisenman's stark, haunting Holocaust memorial offers a glimpse into the heart of darkness. Michael Z. Wise reports
Capital Gains March, 2004
- Two world wars, one cold war, and a national history shorter than the rest of Europe'show is a city to cope? Suzannah Lessard investigates the resurrection of Berlin's imperial and more recent past, in the architecture of the present
Hello, Lenin! May, 2004
- In Berlin, Communist kitsch is inspiring a new generation of Germans, nostalgic for the days before the fall of the wall.
Our Berlin October, 2002
- Ted Benfey was 11 when he was forced to flee his homeland. Sixty-six years later, his son Christopher brought him back, with his two grandchildren, to revisit Berlin and reclaim it as the family's own
- T+L Reports: Ich Bin Ein Consumer May, 2006