June 5th morning started off with a nice short walk to to Pariserplatz. This is the area in front of the Brandenburg Gate which houses several embassies and the Academy of Art done by architects like Frank Gehry and Gunter Behnisch. The interesting part about these buildings is that the restrictions to the facades were forced to not take away from the Brandenburg Gate. So the Architects both of which have very distinct styles were forced to contain there on unique style to the interior spaces of the buildings.
After that we had a private tour of the Philharmonie by Hans Scharoun. This building from the outside is personally not very attractive. But once we were able to go into the lifted bowl shaped concert halls the exterior appearance was forgotten. The best part was being able to sit and listen to a group of four or five musicians practice. With out a word spoken in their music it seemed as if they told a story with their instruments and poured everything they had into the talent they put out.
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