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Topography of Terror
Topographie des Terrors
Topography of Terror is a documentation centre and memorial in Berlin on the former site of the SS and Gestapo headquarters. It combines a modern, flat-roofed exhibition building with an open-air trench showing excavated cellar walls and preserved sections of the Berlin Wall, and presents permanent and temporary exhibitions about Nazi institutions and repression.
First raised
1987
Its prime
2010
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 2010
What Topography of Terror looked like in its prime.
A low, rectangular two-storey building with a flat roof and a façade of vertical metal lamellae over full-height glazing; the structure sits on an open plot covered in greywacke and gravel with a low concrete perimeter wall. Along the street a long glass canopy shelters an excavated trench showing segments of cellar wall. A small copse of black locust trees stands in the southern open space; materials are concrete, glass, metal and earth tones.
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10 places to explore in 2010.
The record describes 10 distinct spots at Topography of Terror, including 4 interiors: ground-floor permanent exhibition hall, main entrance ramp and glass foyer, event room (200 capacity) and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.
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