“Little daring architecture was born of the fortune that was spent on rebuilding Berlin in the 1990’s – which was just how the city fathers wanted it.” But in the years since reunification, the challenge of embracing bold new architecture in Berlin has been enthusiastically taken up – not by the Germans, but by the architects of the foreign embassies that dot the city. “In an unusual communal experiment, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland have built a hamlet of embassies behind a glowing green copper fence in the traditional diplomatic district of Tiergarten in the former West Berlin. Across town, deep inside the former East Berlin, the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas has designed his country’s ultramodern embassy overlooking the Spree River.