In the evening we made our way to the Reichstag and cued up outside as they took groups individually into the building. During the night of 27 February 1933, the Reichstag was burned, destroying the interior and the dome which surmounted the building. It was further damaged during Allied bombing of Berlin in World War II and left in this run-down state until the 1960s, when it was opened as a conference center. The Reichstag was the site of the German reunification ceremonies at midnight on October 2, 1990. In 1992 the building was transformed into the new home for the unified German Parliament. originally designed by Paul Wallot and completed in 1894, renovated by Sir Norman Foster