I would like architectural drawings for all, or most of the
buildings in the Pariser Platz (Paris Square), the most famous square
in Berlin (with the Brandenburger Tor - Brandenburg Gate).  I am
recreating it in a 3d graphics program and need exact dimensions of
the buildings to do this.

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Request for Question Clarification by scriptor-ga on 21 Oct 2005 09:26 PDT

Dear herzog31,

Detailed architectural drawings of the kind you require are not
available from online sources. You must refer to the competent
authority in Berlin's Mitte district:

Bezirksamt Berlin-Mitte
Abteilung Stadtentwicklung
c/o Bezirksstadträtin Frau D. Dubrau
Iranische Straße 3
13347 Berlin
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Phone: +49(0)30-2009-43900
Fax: +49(0)30-2009-43904
E-Mail: dorothee.dubrau@ba-mitte.verwalt-berlin.de


You can also contact the office for city development of the Berlin
Senate, department for international contacts:

Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung
Internationale Kontakte
c/o Cornelia Poczka
Württembergische Str. 6
10707 Berlin
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Phone: +49(0)30-90123088
Fax: +49(0)30-90123249
E-Mail: cornelia.poczka@senstadt.verwalt-berlin.de


Is this what you were looking for?

Regards,
Scriptor

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Clarification of Question by herzog31-ga on 22 Oct 2005 13:28 PDT

yeah that is helpful, i will also get in contact with the library
about berlin itself.  so if i get in contact with them they will
probably send me the drawings or do i have to go to berlin and make
photocopies myself?  sorry, i don't have much research experience.

Dear herzog31,

I'm glad to know that I could help you. Unfortunately, the libraries
of the Zentral- and Landesbibliothek Berlin (Central and State
Library) do not explicitly offer to make photocopies which they will
send to you. However, you can always ask them if they would be willing
to do it in your particular case:
http://www.zlb.de/fragen_sie_uns/ask_a_librarian/infopoint-engl

Best regards,
Scriptor

If you have access to a university library or possibly any public
library, you can request materials through them.  Many libraries,
especially college and university ones, have arrangements for
interlibrary access and loans.  Policies vary and you may have to pay
for copying.  If you need help with anything in German, I am fluent.

Here is another idea:  contact the following museums and the magazine
of the Association of German Architects.  I don?t think English should
be a problem.
The more knowledgeable you are on the subject, the better the response
will be, but I expect that you know the names of the buildings and
architects, etc., already.
Don?t just ask them what they have in their own archives, pick their
brains for information from other sources, such as this magazine, but
also any others.  Maybe foreign magazines have had articles about the
one or other building.

Deutsches Architektur Museum
http://dam.inm.de/

Architektur Museum of the Technical University, Munich
http://www.architekturmuseum.de/ausstellungen/index.php

Der Architekt,  magazine of the Bund deutscher Architekten
http://www.bda-architekten.de/arch/bda/list.php?thema=derArchitekt

As an afterthought that should have been a first suggestion:
Contact the offices of the architects directly.

Good luck, Myoarin