No matter what color the sky is, from dim rainy gray to bright sunlit blue, the rustic cyan blue of the dome with its golden tips and crosses stands out from the rest of the cityscape… almost unnaturally. The antique baroque styled building with blackened walls shows that it has withstood weathering and time, but only to share the space with other much less impressive and more modern buildings. Instead of a three dimensional cathedral erected tall and majestically over the Spree river, the antiquated structure takes on a two dimensional feel. As if too grand and elegant to be real, the Berliner Dom looks like large painting, towering over Museum Island. Every time I pass either under the Dom or from across Unter den Linden, I stare at the magnificent structure and it fades from a piece of architecture to a painting, a tangible structure to a virtual image. And each time, I stand in awe and try hard to absorb is presence. 
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