The interior of the mocked-up School of Architecture, 22 December 2007

Photograph: Arwed Messmer
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Ground floor of the former East German Construction Minstry, nos. 12-17 Breite Straße, 8 March 2009

Photograph: Arwed Messmer
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Archaeological excavation at the site of Hertzog department store and Cölln town hall, 6 March 2009

Photograph: Arwed Messmer
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Niederlagstraße, view towards Schlossplatz, July 2005

Photograph: Arwed Messmer
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View of Marx-Engels-Platz, today Schlossplatz, shortly before the demolition of the Royal Palace, 20 April 1951

Photograph: Fritz Tiedemann, digitally interpreted and reconstructed by Arwed Messmer
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View of Schlossplatz with the remains of the Palace of the Republic, 8 November 2008

Photograph: Arwed Messmer
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Remnants of wall between Rathausbrücke and former site of the Palace of the Republic, in the background the mocked-up School of Architecture and the Temporäre Kunsthalle, on the left the Marstall, 7 December 2008

Photograph: Arwed Messmer
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The Palace of the Republic ruins from the roof of the Marstall, 26 June 2007

Photograph: Arwed Messmer
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The Palace of the Republic. Nature is reclaiming the site, 13 October 2007

Photograph: Arwed Messmer
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The Raabe-Diele in Sperlingsgasse 10, on the right Friedrichsgracht, 23 May 1952

Photograph: Fritz Tiedemann, digital interpretation of the negative by Arwed Messmer
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Christmas Market on Schlossplatz, 22 December 2008

Photograph: Arwed Messmer
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Shell of an unfinished townhouse, seen from the Alte Leipziger Straße. On the right Kurstraße with the Foreign Ministry, in the background Friedrichswerder Church, 16 January 2006

Photograph: Arwed Messmer
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Townhouses on Caroline-von-Humboldt-Weg, 21 February 2009

Photograph: Arwed Messmer
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