Bierpinsel tower or Turmrestaurant Steglitz

  On a long ride through the south of Berlin I discovered this landmark tower on Schloßstraße. Situated above the palace ubahn station, it has the location and the iconic shape that stands out and yet its been empty since 2006. With a look this futuristic it looks like the surrounding building are only just now beginning to catch up with its distinct style.
  It seems it was developed as a restaurant back in the mid 70's called Turmrestaurant Steglitz, but for various reasons went bankrupt. It has since had many different businesses at the location including bars and cafe's. Its an impressive structure for sure. Its possible it was intended to be another icon for the former West Berlin state and to showcase architectural abilities of the west.

  Not only is it on the main street but its also on a large cross street. The building is integrated into the elevated highway and has a central elevator to access this and an adjoining elevated parking area.

The entrance to the elevator from the ubahn exit.

  The current graffiti edifice was created in 2010 by a number of artists for a street art exhibition in and around the tower. There's a bit more info here

  Apparently needed structural repairs forced its closure and are the reason no one wants to reopen it. Too bad as I'd like to see inside.

  Until next time,
Andy

Barenquell Brauerei, perhaps the final visit.

Back in April I went to look around the Barenquell Brauerei abandoned brewery again. See previous visits here and here. I've heard that as of August there's a new fence around the place so perhaps its due to be torn down:(

A strange little room that was visible through a hole in the wall.

Organic duct tape.

  Once again this amazing place inspires some great compositions. Lets hope its still around next year.

Cheers
Andy

Exploring the neighbourhoods of Berlin.

A few photo's of subjects that caught my attention over the last 6 months.

Windy evening in September

Foggy night in December

"The deeper the roots the stronger the branches"

Until next time, Andy

Post apocalyptic abandoned Brewery

Once again Berlin offers up another amazing site to scour for any photographer. This time its Barenquell Brauerei. The brewery opened in 1882 but closed for good on April 1st 1994. Apparently it was renowned as one of the better beers behind the wall. More history can be found at the Irish Berliner's blog.
 This place was much more eerie to walk around that the hospital as it was in operation up until the 90's so there's much more stuff laying around which reminds you of the people that used to work there. One area had an apartment setup with kitchen and living room. Strangely, below that was some kind of large multiple shower room with all kinds of medical posters and strange bottles of mysterious fluids. Below that, down some dark dank stairs, was the basement which was flooded and way to creepy to explore.

Attention Berlin film crews, if you need someone to recce sites, I'm available!

An ocean of beer labels

Terry Gilliam could film Time Bandits 2 here, Supreme Being ready on set.

Today for show and tell, Azrael has her favorite skull-in-the-box.

The set is ready for Ahhhnuld and the T5 film crew.

It looks like plants growing out of the car but....its just a plastic Xmas tree:)

More photo's of this place and my other explorations on the Flickr site.

Andy

Street art

This amazing work is on a hostel around the corner from where I was staying last week.Its on Taborstrasse in Keuzberg.

Andy