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Praha I was really there!
Main square
Kafka’s pad
Metamorphosis
Praha A Baroque face on a medieval soul
Praha Charles Bridge – the biggesttourist draw in the city
Praha St Vitus Cathedral
Praha Royal Palace: the king used to ride his horses in here
Praha Other Medieval Stuff
Praha Texture of a city
Praha Czech Cubism –light and refined they are not!
PrahaCzech Eclecticism –The Post-modernists rediscovered this guy in the 80’s
Architect: Josip Plecnik
Praha Art Nouveau – city is full of this stuff
Praha Municipal House: the mostExpensive and important Art Nouveau structure in the City
Praha Czech Functionalism
Architect: Pavel Janak
Architects: who knows, but they are cool buildings anyway
Praha Fred and Ginger Buildingby Frank O. Gehry
Gimmicky, but somehow it fitsinto the fabric of the city
Berlin Building the new capital
Lots of money spent with mixed results
Berlin The Reichstag by Norman Foster –A very expensive roof deck!!!
Berlin The Jewish Museumby Daniel Liebeskind
A very moving experience!
BerlinPostdam – The Kaiser’splayground
The end