{"id":1534,"date":"2021-04-14T06:09:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/may-2011-uberlin\/"},"modified":"2021-04-15T07:31:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T07:31:25","slug":"may-2011-uberlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/may-2011-uberlin\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2011 – \u00fcberlin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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May 26, 2011<\/abbr><\/h5>\n
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A Trip to Tempelhof<\/a><\/h3>\n

by James Glazebrook<\/span><\/h4>\n
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There\u2019s something very Berlin<\/em> about Tempelhof. When the former \u201cCity Airport\u201d closed in 2008, the land didn\u2019t become the site of yuppie flats, public housing or a big ugly entertainment centre \u2013 but a public park. And when it reopened a year ago, it hadn\u2019t been landscaped within an inch of its life, or filled with concessions and other \u201cattractions\u201d, with the \u201csupport\u201d of one of the city\u2019s corporate entities.<\/p>\n

To this day, it looks like they\u2019ve just hosed down the runway, painted on a bike track and taken away the worst of the debris. (Though they did leave behind the wreckage of a plane the fire crew used to practice on.) Unfortunately you can\u2019t get inside what was once one of the 20 largest buildings in the world, but you admire it from behind a fence, as you can all of the little shed-like structures that used to house generators and the like.<\/p>\n

Go early on a weekday (the park opens at 6am) for maximum \u201cjust woken up after zombie apocalypse\u201d vibes, or on a sunny weekend to check out all the cheery Berliners running, cycling, rollerblading, windskating, playing with kites, remote control cars and planes, grilling, chilling etc etc. Or for this: Berlin Festival 2011<\/a>.
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