Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Berlin. The Reichstag. You can just see the tip of the glass dome to the right of top, centre.
Built 1894. The proclamation of the Weimar Republic was made from one of its windows after WW1. Reichstag fire in 1933 was blamed on communists, and enabled the Nazis to seize power. Nearly obliterated 1945. Restoration (minus dome) by 1972. In 1990 reunification of Germany enacted here. Plastic wrapped by Christo in 1995. By 1999 completely renovated, including glass dome, by British architect Lord Norman Foster. Since then, seat of the Bundestag (German Parliament).

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