AP Television Berlin, Germany - August 12, 2011 1. Wide of Humboldt Box in central Berlin 2. Close of sign on wall reading: (English) "Humboldt Box" 3. People standing on terrace of box 4. Wide of people walking towards box 5. Close of box with Berlin TV tower in background 6. Close of box with the dome of the French Cathedral in background 7. Site where the Berlin Palace / Humboldt forum will be built in foreground, box in background 8. Wide of archaeologists working on site 9. Close of archaeologist digging with spade 10. People watching work from balcony 11. Wide top-shot of building site 12. Close of digger 13. Various set up shots of Volker Bruggen, managing director of Megaposter 14. SOUNDBITE: (German) Volker Bruggen, managing director of Megaposter "The Humboldt forum will be the biggest cultural construction project in Germany for the next 10 years. And we have the box here to inform the public and awaken their interest." 15. Interior of box, people looking at model of Berlin with old Palace 16. Close of people looking at model 17. Various of model 18. Mid of man sat in circular chair with computer screen 19. Wide of people sat in in-built wall sofa 20. Mid of man taking photo of exhibition 21. Wide of terrace with Berlin TV tower in background 22. Mid of Berlin Cathedral from terrace 23. Close of Berlin Cathedral 24. Wide of Cathedral 25. SOUNDBITE: (German), Volker Bruggen, managing director of Megaposter "In the beginning, of course, there were a lot of discussions about building a futuristic building in this historical area. And also it was probably not easy for town planners or people working for the heritage authority to imagine this building here in this way." 26. Wide pan right from Berlin Cathedral to box 27. Mid of people walking in front of box 28. SOUNDBITE: (German) Shannon Sussman, 18-year-old visitor from Mannheim, vox pop "Yes I think it looks good. But I think the palace that stood here before looked better. I don't like the contrast with the old buildings like the Berlin Cathedral and the new box" 29. Wide of box, and street 30. SOUNDBITE: (German) Marc Henkel, 34-year-old visitor from Mainz, vox pop "I think it's nice and colourful and it looks good. But I think in eight years when this is gone and the palace is here it will be beautiful." 31. Mid of box 32. SOUNDBITE: (German) Volker Bruggen, managing director of Megaposter "Getting people's attention is what the Humboldt box is supposed to do, in order to get as many visitors as possible and spark their interest." 33. Wide of box LEAD-IN It looks like it's landed from space but Berlin's Humboldt Box has a very earthly purpose. The futuristic cube, against the backdrop of the city's baroque Cathedral, is designed to draw people's attention to the Berlin Palace, which is under construction. STORYLINE Here in Berlin's historic centre is the Humboldt Box, a futuristic construction made out of metal and blue mesh. The building towers 28 metres (92 ft) above the Unter den Linden - one of the main shopping and tourist streets in the German capital. But with Berlin's baroque cathedral right next-door and the iconic Berlin TV tower casting a shadow over the box - how does the new building sit in its new home? If you're thinking it looks out of place - you're not the only one. But the building is only temporary and will be dismantled in 2019 when the Berlin palace, or Humboldt forum, as it is also known, has been completed. Until then, the box will stand next to the building site, informing locals and tourists about the history of the palace and the reconstruction work. The building site next to the box is little more than a giant sandpit. Work is set to begin in 2014 and is planned to finish in 2019. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/36ef194d1f436be7db84478b88a4a993 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

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