To steal a phrase, ‘If the German Pavilion in Barcelona is the shrine to Van Der Rohe that all disciples of mid-century modern should visit, the Neue Nationalgalerie must surely be the temple at which to lay your offerings of thanks’. There's something almost spiritual about standing before this masterpiece of modernist architecture

When I was born, “The Wall” was already 10 years old. As I sat drinking coffee in a Berlin cafe, it was almost surreal to imagine that during my lifetime The Berlin Wall had existed, been lethally enforced and had tumbled, reuniting two halves of one of the most interesting, vibrant and progressive cities in Europe.