war, but the platform appears almost as it did, and two original kiosks, one with the original tiling, also remain. U7 station and new south entrance The lower-level U7 portion of the station, built to Rainer G. Rümmler's design in 1968–70 and opened in 1971, also makes use of the Bavarian colours: the walls are clad in blue fibre cement panels with the station name on a white horizontal stripe, and the support columns are white. The ceiling, resembling skylights in industrial buildings, was designed to avoid dazzling train operators; the fluorescent lights are inset in red piping. The lobbies are decorated in contrasting colours: white, red and turquoise. The design resembles that at Eisenacher Straße, also by Rümmler. At the same time, the glass-fronted south entrance building erected in the 1950s to replace the demolished original was rebuilt to a modernistic design, also by Rümmler. Colourful art is mounted on the walls inside. Rebuilding/Renovation 2013 The BVG has done fundamental maintenance to the main entrance building in 2013. On 27 May 2013, the demolition of the main building began. These were completed by 3 December 2013. The new southern entrance building was opened in 2014. During these refurbishment works, the station will be equipped with two additional wheelchair-accessible lifts. The construction for these has started in 2020 and is scheduled to be completed by 2023. References Sources Biagia Bongiorno. Die Bahnhöfe der Berliner Hoch- und Untergrundbahn. Verkehrsdenkmale in Berlin. Berlin: Imhof, 2007. . p. 128. External links Map of station location, Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (pdf) U4 (Berlin U-Bahn) stations U7 (Berlin U-Bahn) stations Buildings and structures in Tempelhof-Schöneberg Railway stations in Germany opened in 1910