Berlin, the Lovely
I’m living here for several years now. Some intermezzo with Hamburg, just a flirt, nothing serious. And I really like this town, even though it’s dirty and full of remains by an armada of caninae.
I can’t describe what’s going on right now, but I think this city - which is continuously changing - it’s changing once more and maybe this time it’s a step I really don’t like.
- Berlin Main Station in May 2005. // CC-BY-2.0-License / Ralf Schulze
Berlin is a decentralised complex, most of it’s public known life happens in the districts of Prenzlauer Berg, Friedrichshain, Kreuzberg, Neukölln and Mitte. But the recent (during the past three years) developments are changing Berlin to a museum-like place. First the buildings at Potsdamer Platz, then the new Central Station and all those Idonknowtwhere-Arcaden shopping malls like at the Frankfurt Allee, they are some kind architeutonics. A lot of blue skinned glass, light grey concrete and some steel or wood is changing the face of the city. And not in a very good way.
I can already imagine how the buildings will suffer in 10 or 15 years, how they’ll look like some ruins, homes of the leftovers of a past without thinking of the future, a reminiscence of the post adolescence of the city of the young and the creatives, the once-place-to-be (if your primary goal is not to become rich but to become famous or inspired).