The New Rapacious Destroyers of Berlin.

Roger Scruton was entirely correct in the concluding chapter of England : An Elegy ( 2000) to remark that the "culture of repudiation" had not just affected Britain but also places like Germany as the,

"The loss of traditional virtue and local identity has occurred throughout Europe and is diaspora...which was struck by enlightenment and died. The global economy, the democratisation of taste, the sexual revolution, pop culture and television have worked to erase the sense of spiritual identity in every place where piety shored up the old forms of knowledge and custom."

Apart from London, which lost so many totemic landmarks of beautiful architecture in the 1960's, Berlin was inevitably more affected as it was flattened and razed by the Soviet capture of the city in 1945.

What has continued to happen is that elegant remnants have been blighted by asinine plate and glass kitsch or "starchitecture" which is even ruining areas that might have been at least preserved as they once had been.
Not only that the beautiful Art Gallery in what had been East Berlin, was restored only to have a huge tacky piece of trash that looked like a large football T-Shirt onto which someone had vomited, plastered on the front.