The halls are hallowed and cavernous, lined with framed photos showing many bewhiskered men, petticoated women and well-scrubbed children of the 19th century posing under the very overpass you just wandered through, or gazing out over the rolling, forested hills.

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Art collector or starving artist, you spend your days navigating Berlin by bicycle and your nights gliding in and out of parties without lines and insider-y night spots (like the unmarked Tausend, hidden under an overpass).

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For example, on 8 December, the unlikely setting for the Very Involved fun day is a space under a highway overpass in a commercial area of Kwun Tong.

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After being followed for several kilometres by the police, Mr al Ghamdi's car fell down a bank at an overpass that was still under construction.

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