Towards the northern end of the palace garden, near the river Spree, is the Belvedere. It was commissioned by Frederick William II and built between 1788 and 1790 as a teahouse although it has the appearance of a miniature palace. The domed building was designed in Rococo style by Carl Gotthard Langhans, who at the time was also working on the Brandenburg Gate.
The Belvedere was destroyed during the Second World War but rebuilt between 1956 and 1960. Today it houses a collection of eighteenth-century porcelain produced by Berlin manufacturers.