"If you listen to each of the verses, there are lyrical references to Berlin, to Potsdamer Platz, to Nuremberg Strasse, " said Wilson.

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He drove up Leipziger Strasse to Potsdamer Platz and continued on west.

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In the past five or six years, many galleries have migrated to open on Potsdamer Strasse in western Berlin, a street lined with antiques and art dealers before World War II.

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Hundreds of people line up three-deep along the temporary barriers outside the CineStar theater in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz, as photographers provide the familiar sparkle of camera flashes that greet every world premiere.

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Retro movie festivals featuring Weimar directing stars like Lang and Ernst Lubitsch, and actors like Peter Lorre, Louise Brooks and Emil Jannings, happen regularly at the Babylon (Rosa Luxemburg-Strasse 30, babylonberlin.de) and the Arsenal (Potsdamer Strasse 2, arsenal-berlin.de) movie houses.

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Mr Piano, who comes from a long line of Italian masterbuilders, collaborated with Richard Rogers on the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and is now working on a commission at the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, as well as on a skyscraper near the Sydney Opera House.

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