NEW BERLIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1939, Page 9

NEW BERLIN

CITY OF GRANDIOSE BUILDINGS. The future Berlin that Herr Hitler is building was on view at the Architectural Exhibition in Munich. It is a still bigger and better Berlin that, he has set his heart upon—a city of grandiose buildings that will record in stone and steel the founding of the Greater Reich. Herr Hitler approves of these "kolossal” structures by architects, who. by them, seek to glorify the leader, the State, and the party. They are wide and handsome, but not tall, so that Herr Hitler, himself something on an architect, has apparently frowned on the American skyscraper. Most of them are only four or five stories. A concession to the architectural glory of the non-German past is seen in their classical facades; but for the rest they [ are utilitarian and modern, rather like I prosaic palaces made of uniform blocks. Professor Speer is the master architect who is replanning Berlin. Strong points in the scheme are the Reich Chancellery, which will be "the largest in the world.” the "Round Place,” with a diameter of 600 ft, surrounded by the House of German Travel,- the Alliance Insurance Company, the German Artists’ Club, a U.F.A. cinema, the Thuringa House, and the Army Casino. The new German War Ministry will be "the largest in Europe” and will contain a special "Soldiers’ Hall,” dedicated to all the great soldiers in German military history. The new military faculty of the Technical Institute is being erected on the edge of the Grunewald forest not far from the Olympic Stadium. On the north side of the city the Berlin garrison is to be housed in a gigantic barracks to be known as the "Moabit Block.” The new airport now being constructed at Tempelhof will be "the biggest in Europe.” Buildings to house aeroplanes are now going up, and thehalls for the passenger traffic are on a generous scale. _____