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Dan Borden
Save Berlin: Checkpoint showdowns
What’s happening with Berlin’s Cold War border crossings? Read more
Save Berlin: Condo bonanza
Berlin real estate prices have been skyrocketing in the last few years. Is the bubble about to pop? Read more
Save Berlin: Campus fever
Dan surveys the city’s start-up campus boom. In July, manufacturing giant Siemens announced plans to create a centre for aspiring technology entrepreneurs in Spandau which they’re calling an “innovations campus”. But Siemens isn't alone. Read more
Save Berlin: FRIZZ23, the gangsta unicorn
Dan explains what’s special about that charred blue building hidden in Kreuzberg’s Besselpark. Read more
Save Berlin: Wrestling with ghosts
Dan explores buildings with sordid histories in the East. Read more
Save Berlin: On the bike path to hell
What is the city doing to improve conditions for cyclists? Read more
Save Berlin: Mute’s Mega-Berlin
Dan watched the Netflix flop to find out how our city’s future stacks up. Read more
Save Berlin: Desperate measures
From subway tunnels to supermarkets, how far will Berlin go to house its residents? Dan Borden investigates. Read more
Save Berlin: Palaces of broken dreams
Dan Borden asks: What happened to the cinemas of Weimar Berlin? Read more
Save Berlin: Polar express
At Hauptbahnhof, train travellers get a chilly reception – and it’s about to get colder. Dan Borden explains. Read more
Save Berlin: Battles in the sky
It’s not just airports that can’t get off the ground in Berlin. Dan Borden reports on four of the city’s stymied skyscrapers from Alexanderplatz to Neukölln. Read more
Save Berlin: The silent scream
Berlin is finally trying to solve its housing crisis... with ugly new buildings awkwardly crammed into hallowed historical sites. Hooray? Our urban columnist weighs in. Read more
Save Berlin: Magic Nazism
Dan Borden on the occult fantasies that inspired Third Reich architecture. Read more
Save Berlin: Spree dreamers
Dan Borden checks in with the Flussbad project, which aims to clean up a stretch of the Spree by Museum Island and turn it into a public pool. While you're waiting for that, you can dive in (at your own risk!) at their swimming competition on July 2. Read more
In 2015, the club and cultural complex Stattbad in Wedding was shut down by city officials, citing inadequate fire safety.
The home front
Berlin is struggling with a fullblown housing crisis: rents have doubled, pushing out low-income residents and artists to the city margins. The government is showing a will to tackle the situation. But is it too little, too late? Read more
Plans for the Europacity project by Hauptbahnhof.
The city curator
The woman in charge of overseeing Berlin’s new building projects, city planner Regula Lüscher, shares her perspective on the German capital and its future. Read more
Save Berlin: From Sergei with love
Dan Borden on the chameleonic style of Berlin’s most ubiquitous, least recognised architect, Sergei Tchoban. Read more
Save Berlin: Mitte’s broken heart
Dan Borden on how the East and West destroyed a pair of Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s masterpieces. Read more
Save Berlin: We go high
Dan Borden on the women who are (literally) building a new progressive era in Berlin. Read more