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Threatened architecture

tellurian — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:11:11 -0800

Postwar architecture of Berlin. Photographing architectural icons before they disappear. Some I kind of like. Some I don't. Others, I just don't know what they were thinking.

By: setanor

setanor — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:33:10 -0800

nice stuff, but i far prefer the one you don't like to the one that you do.

By: Zombie Dreams

Zombie Dreams — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 01:25:54 -0800

This one looks like it's from an RTS.

By: jfuller

jfuller — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 01:59:55 -0800

I thought it was a sandcrawler. Anyway, it's well armed.

By: vaportrail

vaportrail — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 02:07:21 -0800

Are you sure you didn't mix those links up? I'm with setanor

By: jfuller

jfuller — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 02:11:55 -0800

These buildings are practically brand new! Why do they look so much more decrepit than this one, which is 700 years old? They all must have been built out of used kleenex.

By: Ryvar

Ryvar — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 02:53:39 -0800

This one looks like it's from an RTS. It looks like something you'd commute to in this.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 03:38:48 -0800

No, I didn't mix the links up. That building looks like something the Stasi would take you to. The Sputnik Cinema on the other hand reminds me of some of the Googie masterpieces.

By: funambulist

funambulist — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 04:41:37 -0800

Very cool. There are really some monstrosities there (like ugh.. this or this or this on the other hand don't strike me as particularly vile, but I'm probably used to much lower standards than the Germans) So these are all buildings that are already scheduled for demolition, right?

By: funambulist

funambulist — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 04:46:35 -0800

ooh, they're planning to turn this into a book

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 04:57:43 -0800

funambulist, I like the one in your "ugh" link!

By: funambulist

funambulist — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 06:17:10 -0800

seriously? oh well, different strokes and all that :) To me it sort of looks like an eagle that attempted suicide and failed. The poor bird folded its wings and plunged towards the ground, but its beak got caught in the concrete, and it's now forever trapped there like that. It needs to be freed! seriously, what is it? just a sculpture? what's Straßenmöbel? Lüftungsschacht?

By: Scoo

Scoo — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 07:02:37 -0800

Mother of God, this one just floors me in it's oppressiveness. Great post.

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 07:21:30 -0800

Some of these make The Gobbler look like the Taj Mahal.

By: geoff.

geoff. — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 07:39:30 -0800

Postwar Germany was one big community college?

By: tippiedog

tippiedog — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 07:53:04 -0800

funambulist: apparently some sort of air vent (subway?)

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:14:25 -0800

Willkommen auf urban brutalism.

By: WidgetAlley

WidgetAlley — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:21:39 -0800

Ooh, I love stuff like this. Thanks, tellurian. I'm surprised by how much some of these buildings look like something you'd find in the run-down industrial/warehouse bits of downtown in my city.

By: Slarty Bartfast

Slarty Bartfast — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:10:05 -0800

It looks like something you'd commute to in this. Seriously, Ryvar, what the hell is that?

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:02:22 -0800

It's used for strip-mining coal in Germany.

By: Cironian

Cironian — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:03:42 -0800

Also, it can transform into a giant mech if necessary.

By: restmodern

restmodern — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:49:36 -0800

thanks to all posters refering to our project! sorry that it's german only. but google translates it quite nice... YES, we're doing a book and search for subscribers. if we get 500 of them in the next months, we'll do it (german/english, in professional translation I promise). Some details in english are on our flickr account. Thanks again for your heavy attention.

By: MetalDog

MetalDog — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 14:45:54 -0800

Umm, is it ever sunny in Berlin? Every picture I've seen it appears gloomy and overcast.

By: cenoxo

cenoxo — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 22:23:23 -0800

Are you sure this is post-war architecture? Compare Bildung #4 vs. Bismarck: I'll take the the battleship. Many other buildings look like shell-riddled WWII bunkers. Perhaps it's just the grey skies, but most feel heavy and oppressive.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 22:46:20 -0800

Welcome, restmodern!

By: scarabic

scarabic — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:44:37 -0800

Toll! Und restmodern, herzlich Wilkommen! Hoffentlich koentest du hier en Bisschen bleiben.

By: scarabic

scarabic — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:46:35 -0800

Crap crap crap. This is donpedro on scarabic's computer, accidentally posted that as him. Dood, if you see this, sorry about that.

By: JohnnyK

JohnnyK — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 06:51:16 -0800

See, i dont necessarily think the Cathedral looks any more decrepit than the various post-war concrete stuff, at least not in any of these pics. A building is not just a building, and you cant judge the cathedral by the same standards that you judge a movie or an apartment building or a sucessful open heart surgery.