Construction and a Church

So Berlin has a lot of construction. When I took a city tour on my first full day here, my tour guide said "Berlin is a city that is always becoming, but never is." I think I'm beginning to understand what he meant. I took some pictures of construction that I saw around the city today:
I think they're renovating the side of a building here.

They're building a massive mall here. It's going to be called "Bikini Berlin":

One thing I absolutely love about Berlin is the public transportation. There's the S-Bahn (Metro), the U-Bahn (Underground Rapid Transit), the Tram (like the Trolley in SF), and the Bus.  You can get exactly where you need to go pretty easily. And there's always a recording of a man or woman speaking perfect German that announces the stops. I'm trying to model my German accent after the S-Bahn man. I keep forgetting to take pictures of the actual trains, but I will do that eventually. But for now, here's a really cool old U-Bahn station that I saw today. It's Wittenbergplatz, one of the oldest in Berlin. The entrance hall shown here was built in 1913. My photo-taking skills are as excellent as ever in this one:

Sometimes you see these posted outside of the stations. The U9 line contains the stop Bundesplatz, which is where I get off to go home:

Today I walked to Breitscheidplatz so I could view the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. The church was built in the 1890s but was badly damaged by bombing during WWII. Since then its ground floor has been converted into a memorial hall and a new church, built in the early 1960s, has been attached. Unfortunately when I arrived the old church was completely covered up - I think it must be being renovated. So I went inside the new church to take a look around. It was awesome. It's shaped like an octagon and each wall is a giant mosaic of painted glass. The light and mood inside were very peaceful and calming:

But what really made the visit special was that the organist was there practicing a piece. I was absolutely awestruck by the sound of this huge organ. It was really a treat to sit and listen to it:

I must say that this is the coolest church I've ever been to. I was really impressed by how unique and modern it looked.  I mean, even the floor looked good:

To close this post, here's a nice picture of a park.