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  Infotour 1                       Capital City Berlin

The tour shows new parliament and government buildings in the city -centre, embassies and the representations of the federal states. Urban design planning and architecture is reflected as well as an outlook in to the future of the new-old capital.

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  Infotour 2                       New Housing Projects in Berlin

This tour presents recent examples of new private settlements in development areas next to the inner-city and in Berlin´s historical centre..

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  Infotour 3                       Waterfront development

As in other European cities, industrial and port fallows offer new opportunities for developing residential areas and business districts with unique qualities. 
The tour reveals a general view of the building projects in the city - centre and a visit of the development area of Rummelsburger Bucht.

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  Infotour 4                       Administration buildings and settlements of the Twenties

Berlin is a museum of early modernism. This tour offers a selection of industrial and office buildings as well as the settlements to which the Weimar Period was particularly obliged. It includes works by Peter Behrens, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Bruno and Max Taut, Erich Mendelsson or Hans Scharoun.  Due to the large number of objects each tour is organized individually.

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 Infotour 5                       Trend Shops -Shopping Trends

New shops and a look at actual trends in shopping itself are topics of this bustour, giving an overview about activities and developments in the area of the historical city centre and around Kurfürstendamm

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  Infotour 6                      Squares and parks - New spaces for the public

This tour presents numerous projects of the inner city.  Meeting-points in open space and multifunctional environments are offering new qualities in a fast developing urban landscape.

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  Infotour 7                      Sustainable rainwatermanagement in open space planning

The tour illustrates techniques and methods, presenting a variety of ingeneering solutions in the core of the city as well as settlements and park areas, interesting also in respect of garden  design.

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  Infotour 8                        Organic architecture

Organic buildings as architectural idea have inspired architects at all times -since today. Berlin has  most of all examples ever realized in Germany, from Mendelssohn, Eiermann, Scharoun, more recent examples like Frank Gehry or Hinrich Baller. The tours shows possibilities and limits of organic architecture, discussed on several examples.  

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  Infotour 9                       Ecological city planning and architecture

The most important projects realized in Berlin during the last few years and the most prominent examples of the present are shown in this tour.

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  Infotour 10                     City redevelopment and careful urban renewal

Berlin has 27 redevelopment areas, the most of which are located in quarters of the period of promoterism in the city center.  
The planning history and structure of the quarters is explained and key projects of city redevelopment of the last 20 years in Kreuzberg and Prenzlauer Berg are shown.

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Walking tours

  Info Walk 1                    Capital city Berlin

This walking tour presents the sites of government and embassies in the historic city- centre shows up the future planning perspectives .
The walk starts at Schloßplatz and leads via Gendarmenmarkt and Friedrichstraße to Unter den Linden, Brandenburger Tor, Reichstag and the Federal Chancellery.

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  Info Walk 2                    Potsdamer Platz and Leipziger Platz

This tour presents the strategies of Berlin for public lightening in the city centreas well as those of private developments, and presents the solutions of the masterplan light, informs about resposibilties, costs and technical backgrounds, like lamp systems in use etc. evening tour.

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  Info Walk 3                     Highlights of international architecture in Berlin

This walking tour presents numerous projects of international architecture realized between 1998 and 2007 in the core of Berlin.

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  Info Walk 4                    Squares in the historical centre - the quality of public space

This tour leads to the historical squares and streets in the central area (Schloßplatz, Hackescher Markt, Bebelplatz, Lustgarten, Hausvogteiplatz). It illustrates how public space in Berlin has changed both in meaning, function and  appearance over the last years. .

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  Info Walk 5                    The Berlin "landscape of memory"

The walk presents the area of the Holocaust Memorial planned by Peter Eisenman, the area of the Documentation Center "Topography of Terror" and ends at the Jewish Museum built by Daniel  Libeskind

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 Info Walk 6     Careful urban renewal- redevelopment in Prenzlauer Berg

The structure and development of the presently most fashionable part of the city built during the period of promoterism as well as redevelopment strategies are shown.

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Info walk 7                      Urban Art

This tour in the borrough of Mitte gives an overview about artists, the legal situation and positions. Including a drink and discussion.  Groups with max. 10 participants.

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Special guided tours

                                        New Wing of the German Historic Museum by I. M. Pei

This tour presents the strategies of berlin for public lightening in the city centreas well as those of private developments, and presents the solutions of the masterplan light, informs about resposibilties, costs and technical backgrounds, like lamp systems in use etc. evening tour.

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                                        Guided tour in the exhibition "Berlin-city models "

The the historical development and the latest state of the planning of Berlin are explained at the large city models and using plans for Land Use , Traffic Layouts at the Senate Administration for City Development, Environmental Protection and Technology.

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                         Berlin Compact

An introduction to structure, development, planning, politics, urban society and culture
This guided tour is directed to people looking for a quick structural survey of the city and qualifies you to take part in the discussion of current topics of the city: the components of the program can be choosen individually.

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                       Other Matters

We also organize information tours, walks, tours by ship and lectures about subjects chosen by you on demand.

Visits of construction sites:
Visits of construction-sites of buildings  and traffic projects are arranged individually.

Guided tours and lectures are offered in other languages as well.

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