Berlin Trip : Berlin Tempelhof Airport Tour (Part 4)

I ended my last post with this photo, which is the former entrance area of the airport for passengers. The building wasn’t designed like this by the Nazis, it was meant to be a more impressive and imposing entrance for passengers with higher ceilings and an attempt to make it fill people with awe as they entered.

The entrance area was once much higher and this is the Nazi design which was once visible to passengers entering the airport. The floor was that added during the process of ‘denazification’ after the Second World War.

It’s badly damaged, but it’s still there.

The hole punched in the wall to allow modern day access.

Even to my untrained architect’s eye, I can see there’s some damage here.

I hadn’t realised that the Nazi designed building was constructed with what is known as monumentalism architecture, something more common in the early twentieth century. This was the plan for the exterior of the building, although the interior was designed with a more modernist design style plan.