Architectural guided tour PARLIAMENTARY DISTRICT IN BERLIN

This tour explains the parliamentary buildings and landscaping around the Reichstag and Federal Chancellery. Set out along the linear composition of the so-called ‘Band des Bundes’, the parliamentary buildings connect the formerly divided sides of the river Spree, elegantly demonstrating the new face of Berlin’s political power. The tour leads across the river to city’s new glass Central Station, Europe’s largest crossing railway station, and looks at the stations proportions in relation to gmp’s original plans and the shortened version of the glass roof realised by contractor Deutsche Bahn.

Buildings visited in the course of the tour – including interior visits: 

Reichstag by Lord Norman Foster; Federal Chancellery and Bundestag U-Bahn station by Schultes Frank Architekten; Forum by Lützow 7; Paul Löbe Haus and Marie Elisabeth Lüders Haus by Stefan Braunfels; Swiss Embassy by
Diener und Diener; Spreebogen Park by w+s; Kronprinzenbrücke by Santiago Calatrava; Kindergarten by Gustav Peichl

Duration approximately 2.5 hours

a) with focus on HAUPTBAHNHOF (main train station) by gmp architects
b) with focus on PARISER PLATZ: “Critical reconstruction” at the Brandenburg Gate