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Blog: What’s Behind the Berlin Dominos?
What was ripped down two decades ago has been put back up in style. The city of Berlin has recreated the Berlin Wall with 1,000 oversized dominos that will be toppled over on November 9th in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall.
The open-air Domino Gallery forms a 1.5 km long line that maneuvers its way around the Reichstag, Germany’s parliament, and the Brandenburg Gate – the site where East Germans rushed across the wall into West Berlin when it fell.
But constructing this mock wall took just as much work and manpower, if not more, than the original wall that went up ever so quickly in 1961.
15,000 participants from over 20 countries took part in painting the giant dominos that are 2.5m high and 1m wide. 40 trucks were needed to transport them in and around Berlin–and it took 26,000 km worth of travels just to get them into place.
The first domino will be tipped over tonight by the former Polish president, Lech Walesa.
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