Bumming in Berlin

Today is my last day in Berlin and it is to be a half day. We started off by checking out of our Airbnb and making our way to Berlin Hbf, the central train station, to lock up our stuff. This is where we will be leaving from later on. Our first real stop was to see the Interbau Apartment House designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1957 for the International Builders Fair. It was a social housing project that bares striking resemblance to the ideas put forth by Le Corbusier's Radiant City. It was interesting to see but without being able to go inside I couldn't form a complete opinion.

Interbau Apartment House

Next on the list was a building called Miniloft Apartment Hotel, originally known as Slender/Bender, by Deadline Architects. I had seen some pretty good photos online but those were better than actually seeing it. It was a little underwhelming and looked odd for the sake of being odd. We couldn't go inside so we had to settle for what we could see. Later on I saw interior photos and determined the inside was drastically more beautiful than the exterior.

Miniloft

From there we made our way back to Museum Island with the intention of (and time for) seeing one museum, the Pergamon Museum. Unfortunately, the people working the museum didn't take our student ID cards so the ticket price was full instead of half and with only an hour to see anything we determined it wasn't worth it. Instead, we chatted outside in the bright sun and basked in the warm air.

Alte Nationalgalerie

Finally it was time to catch our train to Prague. We said our goodbyes to Hannah who we will see later at the Villa and set off to the Czech Republic.