Berlin's Embassies in the Diplomatic Quarter

After Berlin became the capital of Germany, many diplomatic missions moved here. Many new embassy buildings have sprung up in the traditional diplomatic quarter at Tiergarten. Some are gems of modern architecture, others bring a touch of exoticism to the city.

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The Embassy of the United Arab Emirates is just one of many architectural highlights in Berlin's diplomatic quarter.
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The Swiss Embassy in Berlin-Tiergarten
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On Wilhelmstraße stands the strictly secured British Embassy. This postmodern building is particularly distinguished by its extravagant facade, whose smooth shape is interrupted by a hole gaping in it, from which two colorful structures ris
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A little further on, down the street Unter den Linden, on the right side stands the Russian Embassy. The building, which had already served as the embassy of the USSR, was built in the Stalinist style at the beginning of the 1950s and was thus considered a model for the representative buildings on today's Karl-Marx-Allee.
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The Embassy of the United States in Berlin. This building, which was only opened in 2008, filled the last construction gap on Pariser Platz and is therefore architecturally similar to the surrounding buildings.
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Walking past the Indian Embassy, you reach the Embassy of South Africa. In addition to the yellow sandstone, the building is mainly characterized by the many glass and aluminum elements, which are supposed to paint a picture of modern South Africa. The closer the viewer gets to the embassy, the more details become visible.
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The Italian Embassy, painted in pink and built in the style of a Renaissance palazzo. The building is crowned by a base of Roman travertine.
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The Embassy of the United Arab Emirates looks like a palace from the outside and inside. The reception hall is supported by columns and on its floor we find the typical Arabian octagonal star. The sides are lined with huge palm trees, above which there is a colored glass roof. Completed in 2004, the building achieves the same effect as many of the elaborate hotel buildings for which the Persian Gulf country has become world famous.