spent a few hours yesterday creeping around the abandoned cold war listening station atop teufelsberg. energetic vegetation overruns the remains of the western allies deepest penetration behind the iron curtain, now the playground of graffiti artists and local dopers. the site's spacious domes once sheltered the most sensitive of technological ears as they eavesdropped on enemy communications, but today the entire site is dominated by the sound of the relentless wind tearing through the industrial textiles and prefab structures as they fall to ruin.
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the dom
the hideous berliner dom was built upon the site of the city's original cathedral built in 1465. Commissioned by Kaiser Wilhelm II, designed by Julius Carl Raschdorff and completed in 1905 the new church quickly earned the contempt of the populace for its overly ornate neo-baroque design. Postwar restoration was complete in 1993 and of particular interest is the restored Sauer Organ which survived WWII relatively unscathed despite the heavy damage to dom itself. the interior can only be described as vertigo inducing and has been compared to being trapped inside a wedding cake.
