Mr. Hinkel, the high-rise's developer, said 19 slabs of the wall, each four feet long, will be relocated "only a few meters" beside theEastSideGallery.
Over the weekend, tourists snapped photos of theEastSideGallery paintings, which were restored around the time of the city's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of reunification.
Protesters last week blocked workers from removing the tennis-court-length piece of theEastSideGallery, a 1, 400-yard section of the wall covered with artwork running alongside the Spree River.