The city of Berlin has long been trying to decide what to do with the monumental Te mpelhof airport, built in the heart of the city by the Nazis. "The mother of all airports" is how star architect Sir Norman Foster once described Berlin's Tempelhof airport. Visitors to the site might agree. Built by the Nazis as the entry point to Hitler's never realized Third Reich capital Germania, the impressive terminal stretches 1.2 kilometers around one end of the airfield.
Since the end of October, though, the airport has been closed to air traffic, and the city of Berlin has been scratching its head about wh
at to do with the enormous field in the heart of the city...
www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,602429,00.html
image: jakob tiegges proposal for emptiness
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