Berlin
Several metres of reconstructed tram tracks recall the world's first electric tram ride in the German capital, Berlin. Werner von Siemens stood at the cradle of that world first.
Berlin
From 1894, on Brunnenstraße and Ackerstraße in Berlin, AEG built a veritable city within the city: the brand-new 'AEG-Humboldthain' plant.
Berlin
Hartung columns or 'Hartungsche Säule' may be a familiar name in Berlin, but outside the German capital, their name mostly raises questions. What does the name Hartung stand for?
Berlin
The banks of the Spree in Berlin's Oberschöneweide district were overrun at the end of the nineteenth century by workshops that mainly focused on the electronics industry.
Berlin
The Behrensbau is the crown jewel of Berlin's Oberschöneweide industrial area. In 1917, architect and AEG designer Peter Behrens established the Nationale Automobil Gesellschaft (NAG) automobile factory there, a subsidiary of AEG.
Berlin
Of the forty-five historic railway bridges built in 1870, twenty-nine still span Berlin's Yorckstraße today.
Berlin
Trains between Berlin and Szczecin in Poland once thundered past over a double-track bridge. Two new bridges made the old monument unemployed in 1952.
Berlin
Near the Hauptbahnhof station in Berlin, Germany, the only relict of the Berliner Gewerbeausstellung from 1879 is a higgledy-piggledy staircase.
Berlin
With the construction of a turbine factory for AEG in Berlin, architect Peter Behrens did away with the battlements, brick facades and turrets that had characterized industrial architecture until then.
Berlin
Blue ventilation pipes protrude like cannon barrels from the former Research Facility for Experimental Medicine in Berlin, an example of concrete-dominated brutalism.
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