OK, this book is not for everyone. The pictures show buildings or parts of buildings under construction, renovation and demolition. We get to see scaffolding, cranes, facades, rebars, and paint peeling. The colors are quite nice but the geometry and unfamiliarity of some of the objects shown are fascinating (to me, at least). They verge on abstracts, but, except for the peeling paint, don't get there.
The book is not like Edward Burtynsky, who is trying to show the grand effects and defects of industrial civilization (see Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky)--Thiel's in it more purely for the strange beauty. Maybe there are landmarks I don't recognize (other than the Reichstag) but my impression is that this could be almost any major city with modern buildings. I recommend A Berlin Decade to anyone who likes architectural photography on the abstract tip.
If you like A Berlin Decade you might also like Phantom Shanghai which is about the destruction of traditional Shanghai in favor of a vertical city.