Yellow clinker brick AEG factory halls along the Spree, and the former NAG works building Unfamiliar names as one of its Berlin locations.
What Oberschöneweide looks like
Wilhelminenhofstraße runs along the Spree for the length of the AEG works, a straight road with tram tracks down the centre and yellow clinker brick rising three to five storeys on one side. Arched window bays repeat down the whole facade, each one divided into small panes by iron mullions.
At Reinbeckstraße, a low brick gatehouse opens onto a fenced industrial courtyard. Taller gable topped halls stand behind it, red brick piers between plastered panels. The complex now runs as an exhibition venue rather than a working transformer factory.
Wilhelminenhofstraße 75A is now HTW Berlin's Wilhelminenhof campus, a five storey block with a curved glass roof over its stairwell and the same arched windows running to the corner. The block is part of the AEG works built in phases between 1895 and 1923.
Ostendstraße, farther south, runs past a long horseshoe shaped works building in the same yellow brick. The facade wraps around a central hall for several hundred metres, unbroken from end to end. Its water tower rises above the roofline, visible from the street.
Zeppelinstraße and the blocks around it hold plainer two storey brick houses from the same years as the factories, set back from the road behind small gardens. 's woods sit along the district's eastern edge.
Shot in Oberschöneweide
The Netflix series Unfamiliar films a Russian ambassador's first appearance inside the former NAG administration and production building on Ostendstraße, its own high ceilinged halls and arched windows on screen for the show's diplomatic scenes. The horseshoe shaped complex, completed in 1917, stands empty ahead of a planned redevelopment of the site.
Unfamiliar, 2026
Unfamiliar's Russian ambassador appears for the first time inside this building, its high ceilinged halls and arched windows on screen for the show's diplomatic scenes. The source names no specific room and does not say whether the building's exterior appears on screen. Street View
What Oberschöneweide can double for
Księży Młyn in Łódź, Poland
The Księży Młyn mill complex combines tall brick factory halls with a purpose built workers' housing row nearby, at a similar overall scale to the AEG works and the beside it. Its main spinning mill repeats the same arched window bays as the Oberschöneweide halls. Księży Młyn's brick runs redder and its housing rows are single storey rather than Oberschöneweide's two storey blocks, so a filmmaker matching the housing needs to control for that difference. Try searching brick mill and workers housing now.
Ancoats keeps multi storey brick mill blocks with round arched windows along the Rochdale Canal, a similar height and window rhythm to the AEG halls on the Spree. Both grew as industrial quarters at roughly the same scale in the same decades. Ancoats' mills run in dark red brick rather than Oberschöneweide's yellow clinker. The canal is narrower than the Spree too, so a tight frame on the brickwork holds the match better than a wide river shot. Try searching red brick canal mill now.
Lingotto in Turin, Italy
Lingotto was built as a car factory in the same decade as the NAG works on Ostendstraße, a long multi storey block wrapped around production floors at a comparable industrial scale. Lingotto's facade is smooth rendered concrete rather than brick, and its rooftop test track has no equivalent here. The comparison holds only for the building's massing and repetition, not its surface. Try searching car factory building now.
