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	Potsdamer Platz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Potsdamer Platz is an important square and traffic intersection in central Berlin, Germany.
		As was the case in much of Berlin, many of the buildings around Potsdamer Platz were turned to rubble by air raids and heavy artillery bombardment during the last years of World War II.
		Potsdamer Platz during the early years of the Berlin Wall.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Potsdamer_Platz (627 words)

	Encyclopedia: Potsdamer Platz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		DaimlerChrysler AG (Xetra: DCX), (NYSE: DCX), with headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany and Auburn Hills, Michigan, is a prominent automobile and truck manufacturer, formed in 1998 by the buyout of the Chrysler Corporation (USA) by Daimler-Benz (Germany).
		This new Sony Center by Helmut Jahn, an impressive, yet light monolith of glass and steel (the rightmost building in the picture on the right), is considered by many to be one of the finest piece of modern architecture in Berlin.
		Photo of Potsdamer Platz at Berlin (taken June 7, 2003 by djmutex), herewith licensed under GFDL.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Potsdamer-Platz (1443 words)

	Architectural Review, The: Potsdamer Platz - design and construction of town square in Berlin, Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Unplanned Potsdamer Platz was its metaphorical centre, where, almost by definition, the powers of modern capitalism could be seen to have overthrown the constraints of imperial authority.
		Potsdamer Platz staggered on as the busiest crossing point between east and west (the division between the Russian and the British sectors went through its centre, exactly following the line of the old city wall and Potsdamer Tor).
		Potsdamer Platz was to become a grand tree-lined crescent with a central tower; new avenues were to radiate westwards from the Platz, which was to be unified and made urbane, over a century and a half since Schinkel had first proposed the idea.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3575/is_1223_205/ai_54067552 (1358 words)

	Potsdamer Platz -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Potsdamer Platz is an important square and traffic intersection in central (Capital of Germany located in eastern Germany) Berlin, (A republic in central Europe; split into East German and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990) Germany.
		It is named after the nearby city of (Click link for more info and facts about Potsdam) Potsdam.
		In the 1920s and '30s, it was one of the busiest traffic centers in all of (The 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles) Europe.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/po/potsdamer_platz.htm (498 words)

	Senate Department of Urban Development / Construction and sanitation since 1990
		One of the busiest places in the world during the 20's and later the sad motif of a divided city, Potsdamer Platz became the symbol of Berlin's renewal after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
		Once completed, Potsdamer Platz presented itself as a city within the city, as a location where the most varied urban planning principles of the outgoing 20th and incoming 21st century were jointly realised.
		On the one side, the final decision prescribed a dense construction of midsized structures in the style of "the European City" with roughly 35 metre high buildings, streets and quiet squares all orientated on the historical ground plan of the area.
	www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de /bauen/baubilanz/en/potsdamer_platz.html (243 words)

	THE LEGEND OF POTSDAMER PLATZ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		During the twenties, the journalist Hardy Worm wrote: "At Potsdamer Platz, one has the feeling a huge firework display is taking place; it is as if howling rockets were shooting into the air, exploding on the roofs of the houses and showering the city with a flood of noise".
		It was at that time that the myth of Potsdamer Platz was born.
		The Potsdamer Platz of the nineties: a symbol for the reconstruction of the new German capital.
	www.agdok.de /GermanDocumentaries/gD363.htm (190 words)

	Potsdamer Platz
		Potsdamer Platz is a traffic circle in Berlin, Germany having several streets branching out.
		The square is named after the nearby city of Potsdam.
		It has become a must-see for visitors, a top shopping area for Berliners, and probably the No. 1 spot to go for film fans, with more than 40 screens in three cinemas, a film academy and a film museum.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/p/po/potsdamer_platz.html (528 words)

	Potsdamer Platz - Wikipedia
		Der Verlauf der Berliner Mauer wird seit einigen Jahren durch in den Boden eingelassene Pflastersteine gekennzeichnet.
		In der Zeit danach entstand in der Gegend um den Potsdamer Platz die größte Baustelle Europas.
		April 2005 gab es in der Nähe des Potsdamer Platzes die Möglichkeit in den Diskoteken Tresor sowie bis 1997 das E-Werk, beides Geburtsstätten des Techno in Deutschland, zu besuchen.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Potsdamer_Platz (379 words)

	Walks through Berlin / Senate Department of Urban Development Berlin / Potsdamer Platz
		New buildings have mushroomed on Potsdamer Platz and the adjacent octagonal Leipziger Platz, restoring the original shape of the squares that had disappeared for decades, buried under border installations.
		In the 1920s, Potsdamer Platz ranked as one of the busiest traffic junctions in the world thanks not least to the presence of Potsdam Station, which was located roughly where the semi-circular front of the Potsdamer Platz Kolonnaden stands today.
		A few segments of the hinterland Wall on Leipziger Platz triggered a controversial debate at the turn of the millennium, as they stood in the way of development plans for the area.
	www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de /bauen/wanderungen/en/s4_potsdamerplatz.shtml (393 words)

	Potsdamer Platz Berlin - Hotels - compare prices, reviews and buy at NexTag - Price - Review
		The two star Ibis Berlin Potsdamer Platz features 146 air conditioned rooms and is located in the historic centre of Berlin....
		Mercure Berlin Mitte is located in the new city centre of Berlin within walking distance to Potsdamer Platz.
		Situated between Potsdamer Platz and Alexanderplatz, in the vicinty of all important business companies, embassies and the Federal Government.
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	water_quality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The overall plan for Potsdamer Platz included a combination of water quality green roofs, water treatment reflecting pools, settling basins, and created wetlands.
		Facing the possibility of an initial negative impact from nutrient releases on receiving waters from green roofs a preliminary study was commissioned for the green roof project “DEBIS am Potsdamer Platz.” The purpose of the study was to optimize the choice of substrate (4).
		A preliminary study was commissioned to help with the choice of substrate for some of the roofs at the Potsdamer Platz.
	www.roofmeadow.com /water_quality.htm (2570 words)

	Potsdamer Platz \| Berlin \| Travel Story and Pictures from Germany
		This is a direct hint of Potsdamer Platz's history.
		In front of Potsdamer Platz's station, you can still see the first piece of wall that was removed in 1989.
		But Potsdamer Platz is more future than past.
	www.traveladventures.org /continents/europe/potsdamerplatz.shtml (335 words)

	National Building Museum: Planning Potsdamer Platz
		"What is being undertaken at Potsdamer Platz is nothing less than an attempt to replace the shattered nineteenth-century heart of a city with one from the twentieth century.
		Although it is too soon to gauge the real economic, social, and cultural impact the new Potsdamer Platz will have, the site's initial popularity suggests that this ambitious architectural undertaking will successfully contribute to the revitalization of Berlin's once-devastated center.
		The traveling exhibition An Urban Experiment in Central Berlin: Planning Potsdamer Platz is presented in conjunction with the Goethe-Institut Washington.
	www.nbm.org /Exhibits/past/2000_1996/Central_Berlin.html (747 words)

	Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
		In the 1920s and 30s, the Potsdamer platz was the busiest and one of the liveliest squares in Europe.
		This all came to an abrupt end in 1943 when the Potsdamer platz was left to ruins by allied bombing.
		the Potsdamer Platz became what was known as the largest construction area in Europe.
	www.aviewoncities.com /berlin/potsdamerplatz.htm (244 words)

	Gabion: Berlin Builds: Inside the Reichstag and other stories 2/3
		Lord (Richard) Rogers is finishing off three highly sculptural blocks - two of offices, one of apartments - in the architectural turmoil of the vast Potsdamer Platz development, right on the line of the former wastelands of the Wall.
		It is to the credit of the Italian architect Renzo Piano, who eventually became masterplanner of the largest chunk of the Potsdamer Platz district, that anything of merit has emerged from the vast reconstruction programme there.
		Although four tall buildings, by Piano and others, have been allowed at Potsdamer Platz to relieve the monotony (and make money), his achievement is more to do with the new streetscape than it is to do with the qualities of individual buildings.
	www.hughpearman.com /articles/cwa44a.htm (489 words)

	BerlinLIVE \| Architecture and Urban Landscapes of Berlin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When the German states were consolidated in 1871, the population of the new imperial capital reached 800 000; by the turn of the century, Berlin had expanded to almost two million inhabitants.
		The city's Potsdamer Platz came to epitomize the frenetic spectacle of a modern metropolis, transient, fleeting, and contingent qualities identified by Charles Baudelaire and memorably captured by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's 1914 painting of the same name.
		Once the buffer zones that were no-man lands, these spaces now range from still empty, weed-strewn patches to the glossy complex of the new Potsdamer Platz.
	www.mcah.columbia.edu /berlin/places/urban_landscape.html (2267 words)

	Potsdamer Platz
		The first large-scale project to be built in the largest construction site in the world (post-wall Berlin), Renzo Piano's Daimler Benz towers sits in Potsdamer Platz, the German pre-War equivalent of Times Square, giving an optimistic start to the developments at Potsdamer and the rest of Berlin.
		The carefully articulated and proportioned panels express the structure behind its skin, though also act as a protective surface for the louvered blinds that can be lowered between the ceramic and the glass behind.
		These two systems give the building its civic presence, but the project extends this presence to the interior, where an atrium is the first of, hopefully, many interior public spaces which will be created in the Potsdamer Platz complex.
	www.archidose.org /Mar99/032299.htm (516 words)

	Potsdamer Platz and Leipziger Platz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The destruction of the Second World War and the subsequent Cold War division of Berlin turned this area, once the busiest traffic junction in the city, into a wasteland directly at the border between East and West.
		Work has also progressed since the 1990s on the historical rebuilding of the neighbouring Leipziger Platz, which was separated from the Potsdamer Platz by the Berlin Wall until 1989.
		New commercial, office and residential building continue to emerge all around the Leipziger Platz, including the Mosse Palais and the Canadian Embassy, which was completed in April 2005.
	www.berlin.de /stadttouren/en/pplatz.html (186 words)

	Potsdamer-Platz-Berlin, www.potsdamer-platz.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Der Potsdamer Platz ist einer der geschichtsträchtigsten Plätze Berlins.
		In den zwanziger Jahren wurde der Potsdamer Platz der verkehrsreichste Europas.
		Der Platz lag an der Schnittstelle der Amerikanischen, Britischen und Russischen Sektoren von Berlin.
	www.potsdamer-platz.net /jahreszahlen.php4 (353 words)

	Nick Cooke - Potsdamer Platz reopening - Vari-lite Technician (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The reopening of Berlin's Potsdamer Platz was a key moment in the continuing reunification of Germany.
		Destroyed in World War 2 and a no-mans land during the Iron Curtain years, Potsdamer Platz was formerly one of the city's major cultural centres.
		The main Phase 1 of the project, pictured here, was designed and built by Mercedes Benz at a cost of some nineteen billion marks.
	www.lightnix.dsl.pipex.com /potsdamer.html (235 words)

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	Potsdamer Platz - Saggio di Vilma Torselli - Architettura - Saggistica - De Re Aedificatoria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Davanti alle immagini della Potsdamer Platz di Berlino mi ricordo di un'espressione, ironica e acuta, che tu stesso hai inventato (ed illustrato) tempo fa, "spontaneismo urbanistico", e penso che, in fin dei conti, non sia certo questo il peggiore dei mali, a fronte di certi esempi di "interventismo urbanistico"!
		Per la Potsdamer Platz, uno dei luoghi-simbolo della Berlino divisa, davanti ad un "vacuum" così evocativo ed eloquente, si sceglie di dimenticare, optando per un'operazione che tu definisci di "urban renewal dedicato alla sospensione della memoria storica".
		Forse la Potsdamer Platz doveva essere calpestata da migliaia di Berlinesi, prima di finire in mano ai suoi progettisti: chissà, magari la lettura delle loro tracce avrebbe fornito utili indicazioni.
	arscomica.org /platz.html (254 words)

	BBFC > Architecture in Berlin and Brandenburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Many village and city churches, town halls and city fortifications came into being: at the beginning they were made of granite blocks and later mainly of brick.
		Johann Arnold Nering was the most famous of them, not only having constructed numerous palaces such as Potsdam, Glienicke, Oranienburg, and Caputh, but also having shaped the city and the rural landscape of those days.
		This concept became the basis of the International Building Exposition (IBA) in 1987, under which numerous interesting projects of tenements renovation in Kreuzberg and new city quarters in Rauchstraße and in Tegel were realized.
	www.bbfc.de /en/drehen/region/land_leute/architektur.htm (1913 words)

	Suitehotel Berlin Potsdamer Platz. Berlin, Germany - Net Reserve
		The hotel was opened in October 2004 and is situated right in the historic city centre of Berlin.
		It is only some minutes per feed away from the "Potsdamer Platz", Check Point Charlie and the "Brandenburger Tor".
		Follow the street for about 4.5 km and then directions "Potsdamer Platz" into the Stresemanstrasse.
	www.bookings.it /hotel/de/suitehotelpotsdamerplatzbln.html?aid=301512 (457 words)

	Potsdamer und Leipziger Platz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Kriegszerstörungen und die Teilung der Stadt machten den einst dichtesten Verkehrsknotenpunkt Berlins zu einem Brachland an der Sektorengrenze.
		Am Potsdamer Platz plante noch vor dem Mauerfall der Daimler-Benz-Konzern (heute DaimlerChrysler) ein großes Bauprojekt.
		Der benachbarte Leipziger Platz, bis 1989 vom Potsdamer Platz durch die Berliner Mauer getrennt, wird seit den 1990er Jahren in seiner historischen Gestalt wieder aufgebaut.
	www.berlin.de /stadttouren/de/pplatz_b.html (135 words)

	Sehenswürdigkeiten: Potsdamer Platz
		Bild 3: Blick von oben auf den Potsdamer Platz.
		Der eigentliche Potsdamer Platz war einst eine Straßenkreuzung, die sich nach dem Bau des Potsdamer Bahnhofes zu einem der verkehrsreichsten Plätze Europas entwickelte und zum Synonym für das pulsierende Leben der Hauptstadt wurde.
		Der Potsdamer Platz in der 360°- Ansicht bei
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