“Where Potsdamer Platz has its glass corporate towers, shopping centre and nondescript gastro offerings, Checkpoint Charlie is littered with fast‑food chains, souvenir stalls and vacant shopfronts: little more than a deconstructed gift shop selling a deconstructed history.”
Sophie Lovell revisited Checkpoint Charlie in her hometown of Berlin for the “Borders” issue of the Architectural Review. Now a cluttered tourist trap facing fresh waves of development, the former border crossing between East and West Berlin sits uneasily between disneyfication and memorialisation – always becoming, never being.
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