The Different Faces of Berlin – Then and Now

Potsdamer Platz 1989…

Potsdamer Platz 2009…

As you might remember, the media last year was absolutely full of the twenty year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and there were many articles, films, discussions…you name it, about the changes that have taken place in Germany over the past twenty years. The photos above come from a cool interactive graphic on the Spiegel website, which comes from that time, but I think it is still fascinating to take another look at how the face of Berlin has changed in those years since the wall came down and Germany was reunited.

The photographs are from the Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung/Geoinformation/Karten.

Thanks to Digel for finding it.