The three towers designed by the British architect Sir Richard Rogers are perhaps the district’s most original buildings. On the right, on the far side of the park, you can see the district designed by the A & T group. This rather dreary area was des..

Cafés and restaurants are dotted along the waterfront on the Paul-Lincke-Ufer side of this canal, while a Turkish market is held every Tuesday and Friday on the Maybachufer side. The Plan Ufer is lined with large trees and attractive Jugendst..

Dating back to 1867 (when it was housed in the Martin-Gropius-Bau ), the Kunstgewerbemuseum is the oldest museum of decorative arts in Germany. After the war, its collections were divided between the east ( Köpenick Palace ) and the west. Since 1985..

This building made of glass and steel (1968) by Mies Van der Rohe houses paintings and sculptures from the early 20C to the 1960s. The collection includes precursors of the German Expressionist movement, with works by the Brücke school. Cubism is a..

This museum, housed on the site of the old Anhalt railway station, explores major advances in technology (e.g. television, radio etc) through interactive exhibits. The part of the exhibition dedicated to transport boasts a fine collection of locomo..

The Mexican Embassy was designed and built by the Mexican architects Teodoro Gonzales de León and Francisco Serrano between 1998 and 2000. One of its distinguishing features is its façade of “concrete marble” slats, made of white cement and Thuring m..

The Theatre of the West (1895-96) is a typical example of late-19C architectural eclecticism, merging Classical (e.g. the façade) and neo-Gothic influences: the half-timbered and brick features behind the building evoke a medieval Burg .

This modern building (1998), located behind the Delphi-Kino , houses the Chamber of Commerce and Industry as well as the Berlin Stock Exchange. The extraordinary structure, whose outline resembles an armadillo, was designed by British architect Nich..

This elegant 54-m wide avenue was the heart of Berlin nightlife in the 1920s with its cafés, theatres, cabarets, smart tea-rooms and large cinemas. Known to locals as the “Ku'damm”, the avenue is the cosmopolitan centre of modern Berlin, even though ..

Queen Sophie-Charlotte had visited the gardens of Le Nôtre during a visit to France and was much impressed by his work. For this reason, Le Nôtre’s pupil, Siméon Godeau, was asked to design the Schlossgarten Charlottenburg in 1697. He created a typ..

Schloss Charlottenburg, the summer residence of the Hohenzollern, is one of the most beautiful buildings in Berlin, with Baroque and Rococo apartments surrounded by magnificent gardens. In the Altes Schloss, don’t miss the Porcelain Room , the chap..

This collection, belonging to the Parisian art dealer, Heinz Berggruen and loaned to Berlin until 2016, is renowned for its works by Picasso (more than 70 pieces), hence the name Picasso und seine Zeit (Picasso and his Time). The artist’s work incl..

This extraordinary garden offers a profusion and fascinating variety of tree, plants and shrubs from all five continents (22,000 species), both outdoors and in greenhouses (1906-07). The greenhouses form a labyrinth of glass domes which house magni..

The collection is divided up into three sections: the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and the silk route – and includes India, of course, but also Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Tibet, Burma and Vietnam. The high point of the museum com..

Dotted with villas built in the style of English cottages and adapted to the Brandenburg setting by Hermann Muthesius (1861-1927), the old aristocratic estate of Dahlem is now a residential district surrounded by greenery. This quarter, situated in s..

The DaimlerChrysler headquarters, which is reflected in the water beneath it, is one of the finest buildings in the district. It stands beside the Tiergarten tunnel gas exhaust chimney, which it has embellished with an immense campanile bearing the..

Built between 1677 and 1681 for the future Frederick I, the restored Köpenick Palace now exhibits furniture from several different palaces. Note the Renaissance-style marquetry room from Haldenstein Palace; the Baroque mirror cabinet from Wiesent..

Designed to house 15,000 people, this housing estate built by Martin Wagner between 1926 and 1932 is one of the best examples of a garden city in Berlin. Laid out around an underground railway station (U-Bahn) with a shopping centre and cinema, the h..

4km long and 2.5km wide, this is the largest and one of the most impressive lakes in Berlin. The nearby Köpenick forest is criss-crossed with footpaths making it a pleasant place for a stroll.

In the 16C this 3,100-ha forest planted with different species was a hunting reserve for the elector princes. To the east, the forest is bordered by a string of small lakes dotted here and there with residential districts. On the edge of the Grunewal..