OK, how is this not on here? The Humboldt Forum opened last week in Berlin, encompassing the collections of the Ethnographic Museum of Berlin and the Museum of Asian Art. At a cost of $824 million it is one of Berlin's biggest projects. Nice restoration you say? Nope, it is a complete reconstruction of much of the facade of the old Imperial Palace of the Hohenzollerns, the Berliner Schloss, demolished by the East German Communists in 1950!
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It replaces this, the East German Palast Der Republik,built in 1976.
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Which in turn replaced the original Berliner Schloss which was badly damaged in WWII:
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