The Hamburger Bahnhof, like many of its contemporaries, was built to impress. Constructed in the mid 1800s during the height of the railway revolution, its looming Neoclassical facade embodies the triumph of human endeavour so characteristic of the age. One of Berlin’s first railway termini, the building, with its two grand towers, was once the Hamburg-Berlin gateway.
After a stint as a transport museum in the early 20th century, the construction was lengthily renovated by architect Josef Paul Kleihues and reopened in 1996 as a museum for contemporary art and the the third location of Berlin’s Nationalgalerie.
© Maximilian Meisse
