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BERLIN LOVE PARADE 2003—For the fourteenth consecutive year, the celebration of techno music and wild partying took place in the center of Berlin, this year as the past seven around the Victory Lady in the area of Tiergarten. The parade was established in 1989, just four months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, as a demonstration for “freedom, love, unity and respect.” This year, as I waded through the beer and vodka bottles on the street and saw the people dancing and camped out around the Victory Lady?...
...Best Jogging: Berlin has a lot of green areas, but for travelers to central Berlin, the best bet is the Tiergarten, a park with woodland, lakes and many running trails...
...probably more responsible for the results than any other architect. He was master planner for three important IBA blocks. While none of Krier's IBA architecture is great, all of it is good. His best is the main building (of nine) of a rather formal housing estate near the Tiergarten, West Berlin's big central park. The main facade, an outthrust white shield, could be the refurbished fragment of an ancient Roman circus. But in pure postmodern fashion, the metaphors are freely mixed: facing the long central lawn on the interior is a handsome pair of neo-medieval towers...
Jake and Magda were standing, faces into the wind, on a high wooden platform overlooking that gash. It was nearly dark now. The platform, sturdy and unornamented, was almost two stories high and built like a gallows at the spot just beyond the Tiergarten where Bellevuestrasse achieved its dead end in the Wall. From where they stood, they could see the center of East Berlin. Lights were on in all the buildings, but it was the brilliantly illuminated armed wasteland immediately in front that held their attention...
...PARKS are at once distinguished from the rest of the city and the permeating it there is a sense of space, partly of space opened up by the bombing and not yet planned for that belies the island nature of the city. Much of it--the vast Tiergarten in the center of the city, the forests and lakes of the Grunewald on its edge--has been part of the shape of the city for a long time. Perhaps the sense of contained wildness--the sense one gets from the grassy fields and forests of the Tiergarten, from the foot-high...