Arrival at Tegel airport and meet with local specialised guide. Transfer to the centre of town for a lunch on own and guided walking tour of Potsdammerplatz (masterplan, Renzo Piano). Particular attention will be paid to buildings by Jahn, Piano, Rogers, Isozaki, Moneo. Free time for lunch and continue to visit the buildings of the adjacent Kulturforum comprising the Neue Nationalgalerie (National Gallery of Modern Art- Mies van der Rohe, 1968), the Berlin Opera House and Library by Hans Sharoun (1964-1978). Transfer to the hotel in the buzzing Gendarmenmarkt square passing by Wohnhof private home (Zaha Hadid, 1994) and check in. In the evening, walk to nearby Newton’s, trendy bar and tribute to Helmut Newton with life size nudes by the photographer native to Berlin. Dinner at one of the restaurants on the square.

Breakfast buffet at hotel and guided walk of Friedrichstraße including the Galleries Lafayette (Jean Nouvel, 1995); Q 205 (Mathias Ungers, 1996); office and residential complex in Schützenstrasse (Aldo Rossi, 1995) as well as other buildings by Kleihues, Kollhoff and Sawade to name but a few. The tour continues through Check Point Charlie and the Berlin Wall Museum.
Proceed with private coach to the Historisches Museum (extension by Pei, 2003), free time for lunch at the museum cafè and continue to the Lehrter Bahnhof (von Gerkan, 2006) new Central Station completed at a cost of € 700 million. Walk to the nearby Hamburger Bahnhof: built in 1846, the ex station was opened in 1996 as a Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art (extension by Kleihues, 1997) and contains an extraordinary collection of work by Warhol, Twombly, Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein and Beuys to name but a few.
Return to hotel for free time. In the evening, transfer to the small Design Hotel Bleibtreu for dinner in the courtyard (weather permitting). After dinner drinks in one of the cafès on Bleibtreustrasse, return to hotel.

Breakfast buffet at hotel and departure in private coach for the Reichstag (German Parliament) with it’s amazing transparent dome which rapidly became a symbol of the ‘New Berlin’ (Norman Foster, 1999), guided walk through the building and transfer to the Chancellor’s Office, part of a complex by Frank & Schulte, 2001.
The tour continues meandering through the streets where the new embassies were built, after being moved from Bonn in 1991. Visit inside the complex of the Nordic Embassies: the master plan (Berger/ Parkinnen) contains four Northern European embassies inside a "wall" made up of 4,000 copper flaps. Tour in coach (no interior will be seen) to the Mexican Embassy (Lèon/Seranno), that of the USA (Moore/Ruble/Yudell), Austria (Hollein), the UK (Wilford), the Netherlands (Koolhaas/OMA), Italy (Canella), Switzerland (extension by Diener & Diener) and several others.
Proceed to Parisirplatz and to the DG Bank, with its titanium cloud suspended in the atrium (Gehry, 2001), pass through nearby Brandenburg Gates (1791). Return to hotel, dinner on own.

Breakfast buffet at hotel and departure for GSW Headquarters (Sauerbruch & Hutton, 1998), continue to the Berlin Stock Exchange and Chamber of Commerce (Grimshaw, 1998) nicknamed ‘the armadillo’. Departure for the Vitra Design Musuem housed in a renovated 1920’s factory and warehouse, and opened in 2000 to house exhibitions, workshops and small conferences. Guided tour of the building and free time for the running exhibition and lunch at the museum café.
After lunch, departure for the Jewish Musuem (extension by Liebeskind, 1999) with it’s floor plan representing an exploded star of David. Return to hotel and free time. In the evening, departure for dinner at Hackesche Hofe: seven interleading courtyards surrounded by art nouveau buildings, designers ateliers and trendy bars. Return on own to hotel.

Breakfast buffet at hotel and departure in private coach for the Bauhaus in Dessau (about a 90 minute drive).
Arrival at the building (Gropius, 1928- renovated in 2006) and guided tour of the Academy, the Workshop and offices of the Bauhaus on the first floor, as well as the auditorium and cafeteria. Continue on foot to the Masters houses – homes for those working and teaching at the Bauhaus, like Kandinsky, Klee and Gropius and guided tour of the buildings. Lunch buffet on the terraces (weather permitting) of the Kornhaus restaurant (Carl Fieger, 1929) and free time to spend on the banks of river Elbe.
Return to Berlin, arrive at Tegel airport for outbound flight.

Breakfast buffet at the hotel and free time. Transfer to the airport and outbound flight.