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Going underground: who’s behind Berlin’s secret subway bedrooms? (theguardian.com)
127 points by Turukawa on March 20, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 13 comments



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!


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.


You've never been to Germany it seems.


And you've never been to Berlin I guess?


And you've never experienced Berlin's bureaucracy I guess?


I did. I live there...


It is Germany after all.


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


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


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.


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



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).




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