Tempelhof

The name Tempelhof comes from the Knights Templar, who encamped here in the 13th century.

Repurposing Tempelhof A.J. Goldmann 2011

Among foreign airports, Seoul-Incheon, Madrid Barajas 'Terminal 4, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong International, Berlin Tempelhof, Osaka, Japan's Kansai International and Beijing International's Terminal 3 are praised for their superior design.

Airport Check-in: Parking fees on rise as airports seek revenue 2010

Kreuzberg, the fashionable, nouveau-riche borough to the north and east, wants more "sports options and leisure-time facilities," while the family-oriented and sleepy southern district, also called Tempelhof, fears an increase in traffic.

Repurposing Tempelhof A.J. Goldmann 2011

Instead of becoming a shopping center, luxury condo development or artificial Riviera, Tempelhof reopened in May 2010 as a vast, flat, no-frills park that is open during daylight hours.

Repurposing Tempelhof A.J. Goldmann 2011

It you really want to make Tempelhof special, you need to lift it in a different league.

Repurposing Tempelhof A.J. Goldmann 2011

Dubbed by architect Norman Foster as "the mother of all airports," Tempelhof was one of the oldest in Europe, and before it closed to air traffic in 2008 it served as a testing ground for the Wright Brothers, the nerve command of the Nazi Luftwaffe and the base of the U.S.-led Berlin Airlift, West Berlin's lifeline during the Soviet-led blockade of 1948-49.

Repurposing Tempelhof A.J. Goldmann 2011

Corbis The former Tempelhof Airport in Berlin is being redeveloped as a modern public park 100 acres larger than Central Park.

Repurposing Tempelhof A.J. Goldmann 2011

Now Berlin is facing its largest-scale project yet, the redevelopment of the Tempelhof Airport site, two miles south of the city's center, as a public park three times the size of Berlin's more centrally located Tiergarten and larger than New York's Central Park by 100 acres.

Repurposing Tempelhof A.J. Goldmann 2011

In the drama surrounding Tempelhof, you find a microcosm of contemporary life in the three Berlin districts that border the site.

Repurposing Tempelhof A.J. Goldmann 2011

Its proposal calls for retaining Tempelhof's flatness to create "a contemporary prairie for the urban cowboy."

Repurposing Tempelhof A.J. Goldmann 2011