site of the Berliner Stadtschloss today

…occupied a central position on Berlin’s museum island, and despite much protesting from the West was eventually demolished by the GDR in 1950 after damage from Allied bombings, and today I am looking at the excavations and sprawling lawn on the site, where a reconstruction of the palace will be built after a vote of support by the German Bundestag – just another bit of evidence of the endlessly fraught relations this city has with it’s past, and the complexities of carrying it forward. (more from Wikipedia and the Stadtchloss Berlin Initiative website)