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...tracks[an error occurred while processing this directive] running east to west, a 46-m-high barrel-vaulted steel-and-glass hall and two rectangular office buildings running parallel to the underground north-south lines, plus a shopping galleria. It's on the site of the city's Lehrter Stadtbahnhof, inaugurated in 1871, the year the German Empire was founded. Badly damaged in World War II, most of the building was later razed, leaving just four inner-city tracks in operation. In a further twist, the cold war division of the city left the former hub marooned in the desolate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where East Meets West | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

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