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Architecture stuff:
Walk from Alexanderplatz to Frankfurter Tor along Karl-Marx-Allee. 1950s Stalinist architecture, symmetrical for most of the street, with a couple of modernist Bauhaus-type gems in between, lots of them hidden behind poplar trees. Kino International, Hans Scharoun's Laubenganghaus and Cafe Moskau in particular. Then you finish the walk in Friedrichshain, where there's loads of food and shops.
Bruno Taut and Martin Wagner's Horseshoe Estate in Britz, a horse shoe shaped estate from the Weimar era
Onkel-Toms-Hütte in the south west, another huge estate built on liberal-socialist principles
Waldsiedlung, the traditionalist Nazi answer to the above, with thatched cottages for privileged SS members' families
Bauhaus Museum!