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For a special PIN–UP commission, New York artists Sarah Morris, Mariah Robertson, Kerstin Brätsch, Mickalene Thomas, and Sabine Steinmair each dress up a 90-year-old Berlin porcelain staple. PIN–UP talks to ten of Berlin’s most exciting architects. Wonderful essays on Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s work in Berlin and Potsdam, Ludwig Leo’s bizarre oeuvre, and Le Corbusier’s formative years in Berlin. A second look at Albert Speer’s monstrous Reichskanzlei building, and an inventive proposal for the controversial Stadtschloss reconstruction project. A photographic summer stroll through five Berlin parks, a visit to a mosque-cum-shopping mall in Berlin-Kreuzberg, and a look at eleven of Berlin’s most remarkable real estate coups. A blitz-tour of three over-the-top and under-appreciated West-Berlin social housing projects. A show inside a recently overhauled sewage pump with a consummate showgirl from the venerable Friedrichstadtpalast. An exclusive eight-page portfolio by Katharina Grosse. And so much more…