Back from Berlin
Last week I was in Berlin covering the World Architecture Festival (WAF) for World-Architects. I had a little bit of free time to venture about the city, snapping photos of the below buildings.
The biggest highlight was the Nordic Embassies, a complex I wanted to visit last year but only found a book on the design by Berger+Parkkinen instead (more of my photos here):
![Nordic Embassies](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4583/38529427681_19973f58ff_c.jpg)
On the way to the S-Bahn from the Nordic Embassies, I came across the Bauhaus-Archiv, designed by Walter Gropius in 1964 but not completed until 1979 by Gropius’s former employee Alex Cvijanovic:
![Bauhaus-Archiv](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4515/26774336509_5de3ecfd56_b.jpg)
Another highlight was the Tchoban Foundation's Museum for Architectural Drawing, designed by Sergei Tchoban and Sergey Kuznetsov (more of my photos here):
![Tchoban Foundation](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4521/37811391694_309ab6494f_c.jpg)
A major disappointment was Dominique Perrault's Velodrome and Swimming Pool, which I wrote about back in 2000 and will write about again very soon (more of my photos here):
![Velodrome and Olympic Swimming Pool](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4558/26749461189_f23a2fe5b3_c.jpg)
Lastly, walking back to the hotel from the Velodrome and Pool I came across the Pablo Neruda Bibliothek, a seven-year-old building designed by Peter W. Schmidt (more of my photos here):
The biggest highlight was the Nordic Embassies, a complex I wanted to visit last year but only found a book on the design by Berger+Parkkinen instead (more of my photos here):
![Nordic Embassies](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4583/38529427681_19973f58ff_c.jpg)
On the way to the S-Bahn from the Nordic Embassies, I came across the Bauhaus-Archiv, designed by Walter Gropius in 1964 but not completed until 1979 by Gropius’s former employee Alex Cvijanovic:
![Bauhaus-Archiv](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4515/26774336509_5de3ecfd56_b.jpg)
Another highlight was the Tchoban Foundation's Museum for Architectural Drawing, designed by Sergei Tchoban and Sergey Kuznetsov (more of my photos here):
![Tchoban Foundation](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4521/37811391694_309ab6494f_c.jpg)
A major disappointment was Dominique Perrault's Velodrome and Swimming Pool, which I wrote about back in 2000 and will write about again very soon (more of my photos here):
![Velodrome and Olympic Swimming Pool](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4558/26749461189_f23a2fe5b3_c.jpg)
Lastly, walking back to the hotel from the Velodrome and Pool I came across the Pablo Neruda Bibliothek, a seven-year-old building designed by Peter W. Schmidt (more of my photos here):
![Central Library Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4548/38470428806_ce5c3f046d_c.jpg)
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