The stars of Berlin: Shell Haus Office

Surprisingly perhaps, Hitler was never a big fan of Berlin- primarily because of its liberal and modernist leanings.
The sight of buildings like Emil Fahrenkamp's Shell Haus drove him wild and if he'd had his own way he would have flattened large portions of the city and rebuilt it in grand Nazi style.
The Shell Haus built in 1930 was one of the first steel framed "high-rise" buildings to appear on the Berlin skyline.
Its flowing curves, lightness of style and use of glass provide a stark contrast to the Nazi architecture built later in the 1930s.