Some of Berlin’s best-loved abandoned buildings will soon be renovated, including Tacheles, Haus der Statistik, Spreepark and the Möbel Wulff building on Hermannplatz.
Video highlights from the April 2016 recording of Radio Spaetkauf. Listen to the full episode here: https://soundcloud.com/radio-spaetkauf/rs-04-2016-lonely-locks
After years of aggravating Berlin artists with its twisted perspective, the BVG has finally started fixing the design of its window stickers.
Last year the BVG promised to do something about the wonky sketch of the Brandenburg Gate printed on the protective sheeting on U-Bahn windows. Finally a new sticker design is being rolled out. The feet of the crazy columns have been slightly adjusted to make more spatial sense, and the lines have been slimmed down.
This comes in response to years of complaints about the design. But annoyed graphic designers will have to wait a while longer before the old image disappears, as the BVG is only rolling it out on a replacement basis.
For now, the improved Brandenburg Gate sketch can only be seen on the doors of some of the H-model U-Bahn carriages – those are the newish long interconnected trains – not the old F-model carriages.
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– By Joel Dullroy, Radio Spaetkauf
Which theory of Berlin’s abandoned bike locks do you support? The Radio Spaetkauf team explore the scenarios.
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Which landmark abandoned locations are going to be renovated – and do we want them to be? Several huge Berlin ruins are about to be developed, while Spreepark Planterwald is set to re-open this summer. Will anyone want to go to a formerly abandoned fully operating theme park?
We try and solve a few mysteries. Why are some Berlin streets numbered strangely, and why are there so many lonely bike locks hanging from posts around the city?
Our sports reporter Daniel Stern went out to cover a match of the Berlin Bats, the local floorball team. What’s floorball? Listen to find out.
We’ve got a guest, local journalist Konrad Werner, who joins us to talk politics and the upcoming city election. Check out his own podcast, News des Nachrichtens: soundcloud.com/newsdesnachrichtens/