Horoscope Berlin Art Diary by April Lamm Potsdamer Platz Sandro Botticelli Dante and Virgil before the Giant detail from Inferno XXXI, ca. Berlin Sandro Botticelli Dante and Beatrice in the Heaven of Mercury Paradiso ca. It's just that it's not done yet.
Berlin is always about buildings and building.
The city has had an architectural face-lift three times in the last century. Recently at the airport the man inspecting passports asked me how long I planned to stay in Berlin. He didn't laugh. He didn't even crack a smile. I batted my eyelashes at him, and he let me through.