Going underground: who’s behind Berlin’s secret subway bedrooms?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2016/mar/20/underground-berlin-secret-subway-bedrooms-airbnb

by Turukawa • 10 years ago

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f_allwein• 10 years ago

There's actually an organization that specializes in tours of Berlin's underground architecture and offers some interesting guided tours (although they probably wouldn't include the subway bedrooms): http://berliner-unterwelten.de/home.1.1.html

lettergram• 10 years ago

When I first saw that, I was like... I wonder if that was a porn studio that they setup to avoid laws/taxes.

eginhard• 10 years ago

The front garden tableau (in a publicly accessible area): https://www.facebook.com/BerlinWriters/posts/978227365587788

The headline sounds like there are many of them, but these are the only two.

noonespecial• 10 years ago

At first, the underground workers who stumbled upon this scene in a disused U-Bahn tunnel in Berlin’s Reinickendorf district in mid-January assumed they had encountered an abandoned film set. But checks showed that no film recordings had been applied for in the area.

Because no one would build a film set in a disused subway and then abandon it without filing the proper papers!

askafriend• 10 years ago

Truly hilarious that they assume people actually follow laws down to a T like that.

There is much beauty in the world from people not doing so.

ido• 10 years ago

It is Germany after all.

maaku• 10 years ago

You've never been to Germany it seems.

georgeglue1• 10 years ago

Does anyone have any sense if squatters ever hide elaborate rooms/false walls in public spaces? I've always been fascinated by this...

personlurking• 10 years ago

I've seen a short documentary about this - urban explorers who squat in unusual places in Europe (I think it was a Nordic country, but I can't remember the title).

ForHackernews• 10 years ago

http://laughingsquid.com/artists-build-a-secret-apartment-in...

Going underground: who’s behind Berlin’s secret subway bedrooms?

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