Breaking: Berlin music hotel is water-bombed
NewsThe Radisson Blu Hotel on Berlin’s Alexanderplatz is popular with visiting musicians both for its creature comforts and for a 14-metre high AquaDom in the lobby containing 1,500 tropical fish.
At 5.50 this morning, without warning, the aquarium exploded, showering glass and fish out into the street and causing what the emergency services describe as ‘incredible maritime damage’.
The hotel has been evacuated. There are no human fatalities.
Some fish died of glass chips.
In the first news pictures, the area outside looks like a war zone.
Listen to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWwUJH70ubM
(lyrics at 00:40+), just as relevant today as it was 52 years ago.
A new meaning for “fish and chips”.
We stayed at the hotel while enjoyed der ring des niblungen@Staatsoper unter den linden, which was less than 10 minutes walk away. Now I see what Thielemann did to the water, back financial times said that ring “will go down history”
AquaDom might teach Stefan Herheim and Dmitri Tcherniakov a thing or two about staging an engaging Götterdämmerung in Berlin.
Since the aquarium was made of 20 cm thick acrylic, I am certain that no fish died of “glass chips”. What a silly comment…
The chips are down. And so are the the fish….
Oops……I love Paris in the the springtime…
Which soprano was staying, or was there more than one and there was a competition to see who could break the glass?
They should have known better than to let singers stay there. I saw a program on TV where when a soprano hit her high note it caused glass to shatter!
This headline……. and “some” are about 1470.
If you see a number of 400…500 saved fish: Not from the cylinder (about 30 somehow survived in its remains from where firefighters took them out) but from breeding basins in the cellar, now without power and heating.
Emergency services meanwhile left after an engineer deemed the building structurally save. Another museum in the complex already stated that cleaning up for reopening will take them months. I have so far not seen a statement from Radisson, but of course what should they add to the pictures of a completely destroyed lobby?
it is quite a walk from Alexander Platz…..
in fact about 900m from Alexanderplatz as it is next to the Berliner Dom
Schlamperei in Deutschland…..