Berlin Radio Tower

Berlin, 1926, 146.78 meters. The Funkturm opened on the exhibition grounds in Charlottenburg for the third German radio show, the Große Deutsche Funkausstellung, at a time when radio itself was barely a few years old in Germany. Heinrich Straumer's steel lattice borrows openly from the Eiffel Tower, and the evening light here picks out the restaurant platform partway up and the viewing deck near the top. Its main broadcasting days are behind it, but the trade fair still sits at its feet and Berliners still call it the Langer Lulatsch, the beanpole.