NYC Cooper Union Foundation Building
The Cooper Union Foundation Building, seen from the crossing Bowery / East 4th Street. in the background you can see...
Empire State Building Panorama
View of the Manhattan skyline from Brooklyn – the Empire State Building can be seen in the center.
The Lutheran Cathedral Church a.k.a. The White Church
The Lutheran Cathedral Church (Tuomiokirkko) on Helsinki’s Senate Square, also known simply as the White Church, is probably Helsinki’s, if not Finland’s, most internationally famous building. The...
Baggage Claim / Baggage Carousel
The baggage reclaim area at Tegel airport shone, like everything else, mainly because of the short distances. If you parked your plane directly at the terminal, you...
Giardini Entrance
Biennale di Venezia
Isa Genzken: Oil
Oil by Isa Genzken in the German pavillon
Neon-Lettering ‘Restaurant’ and Clock at Airport Tempelhof
Anyone who has ever been in the waiting hall of Tempelhof Airport in Berlin certainly knows this view: the clock at the end of the hall – and the...
Copenhagen Skyline
View of the Copenhagen skyline shortly after sunrise, seen from the Radisson Collection Royal Hotel. In the foreground the Stadsgraven, part of the...
Helsinki Uspenski Cathedral and Alvar Aalto’s Sugar Cube building
Helsinki on a beautiful summer evening. The Uspenski Cathedral can be seen in the background, with the headquarters of Finland’s...
Trabant and Streetart
A Trabant car and Streetart in Berlin Mitte, near Rosenthaler Platz, where the club Eimer used to be.
Main Station Opening Ceremony
A test run of the light show for the upcoming opening ceremony of the new Berlin main station Hauptbahnhof.
Alexanderplatz by night: TV Tower, St. Mary’s Church, Red City Hall
Berlin’s Alexanderplatz at night: from the Marx-Engels-Forum you get this beautiful view: St. Mary’s Church on the left, the TV tower in the middle – and the ‘disguised’...
Berlin Skyline Wallpaper: TV Tower and S-Bahn in Winter
View of the Berlin skyline from Warschauer Brücke, looking towards Alexanderplatz. When the picture was taken, this view of the Berlin skyline...
Potsdamer Platz Skyscrapers in the Fog
A foggy day in December: the tops of the two high-rise buildings Kollhoff Tower and Bahntower almost disappear in the clouds.
Advertising column, autumn light, Viktoriapark
An advertising column and warm autumn light on Katzbachstraße, Berlin Kreuzberg, near Viktoriapark. A park bench invites you to linger and read a...
Approaching Berlin Tegel Airport by Car
Approaching Tegel Airport by car.
Potsdamer Platz: Weinhaus Huth and Umbrellas
The backside of Potsdamer Platz on a rainy day – view to Weinhaus Huth (also called Haus Huth) and people with umbrellas rushing by.
Potsdamer Platz
“Potsdamer Platz” lettering above the entrance to the S-Bahn station. In the background, the Beisheim-Center and the P5 (Potsdamer Platz 5) by architect Kollhoff.
Potsdamer Platz Model
A model of Potsdamer Platz in the Potsdamer Platz Arcaden.
Sony Center Roof at Potsdamer Platz
View of the spectacular roof of the Sony Center at Potsdamer Platz by the architects Helmut Jahn and Murphy/Jahn Architects. On the right is the Bahntower, also...
Bahnhof Potsdamer Platz
Construction of a toboggan run at Potsdamer Platz – Debis Center in the fog.
Palace of the Republic, TV Tower
Direct from the archive: new old pictures of the end of the Palace of the Republic. Since 1976, the Palace...
Palast der Republik / Berliner Dom
View of the facade of the Palace of the Republic from the Lustgarten. On the left in the picture the Berliner Dom (“Berlin Cathedral”).
Departure Hall of Airport Helsinki Vantaa
This year we are not going to Finland over Christmas – but I take this pre-Christmas time to finally post some of the pictures of the airport Vantaa….
The IBM Personal Computer
The IBM Personal Computer on display in a window in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. Actually – my window, back in the days when we still had our office...
IBM PC with Modem
Another photo of my old IBM PC together with the modem we used to connect to the internet, which basically did not exist back in the days.
Queensboro Bridge, Manhattan Skyline by Night
View from Queens to the Queensboro Bridge, Manhattan Skyline, Empire State Building by night.
American Standard (Radiator) Building / Empire State Building
New York skyline view towards the top of the American Standard Building (Radiator Building) and Empire State Building
Contrast and Brightness controls of a IBM Screen
Oh how I loved to play around with the contrast and brightness controls – and it was just so intuitive. Today no computer screen...
IBM Personal Computer
A ‘portrait’ of the IBM Personal Computer – the original PC – my first computer. What a beauty! Two floppy drives, one RGB...
Stanley Kubrick Exhibition Opening (2005)
Pictures from the exhibition opening at the Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin. In 2005, there was a comprehensive exhibition on Stanley Kubrick and his work at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in...
Ski Jumping Hill Rukatunturi / Kuusamo
(the date is probably not 100% correct )
Ford Ranchero with Monitor on top
Why? Why not?
Flight Simulator Cockpit – Twin Towers New York City
A screenshot of the cockpit of MS Flight Simulator, approaching the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York. The...
MS Flight Simulator Settings screen
The MS Flight Simulator was one of the first rather complex games you could play on an IBM PC in the mid-eighties. Here’s a screenshot of the settings screen....
IBM PC Startup Screen 1980
Turning on the old IBM PC the first thing you get to see is a system message, asking for the current date – in this...
MacBook Pro Crash – Kernel Panic
This is what it looks like when a MacBook Pro says goodbye… Super crash: Kernel Panic. Hardware failure. Motherboards was...
Happy Mac Startup Image
Ach back in the days, when a Happy Mac was smiling at you would mean that the computer is starting up and probably everything will be fine.
Brandenburg Gate / TV-Tower
View through the Brandenburg Gate to the TV Tower on a sunny day in October.
Brandenburg Gate Details
An ‘inside view’ of the Brandenburg Gate.
Brandenburg Gate
Another photo of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on a sunshiny day in October.
Arne Jacobsen Garages
A series of four garages designed by the danish designer and architect Arne Jacobsen.
Egon Eiermann Apartment Building
The iconic facade of the apartment building by Egon Eiermann.
Hansaplatz U-Bahn Station / Grips Theatre
The sign of the Hansaplatz U-Bahn Station – in the background you can see the logo of the Grips Theatre.
The Eternit Building ‘Eternithaus’
The ‘Eternithaus’ (official name: ‘Interbau Objekt 25 A’) in Altonaer Strasse was designed and built by architect Paul Baumgarten.
