Foto: Historisches Museum Hannover/ dpa/dpaweb Very large explosion as we moved down Lepper St towards New Lodge Road. Which is why so many preservationists in Germany are lobbying for the resurrection of unforgotten buildings and complexes.
Almost seven decades after the end of World War II, Germany is once again by the emotional questions of what's worth keeping and which of its lost icons are worth rebuilding. Gutschow dreamt of the "structured and dispersed urban landscape" favored by Nazi planners in the hope that it would make Germany's cities less susceptible to bomb damage. Pictured here is Germany's first high-rise apartment complex, Hamburg's Grindelberg, built in 1957.It was a time of strange, powerful coalitions. Rather, the hill was created entirely from rubble leftover after the bombing of Leipzig during World War II. But the German Work Federation, an influential alliance of artists, architects and entrepreneurs, conducted its own straw poll among a group of German intellectuals who subscribed to the tenets of modernism. Düsseldorf has already gone through a similar development. In all, no fewer than 5.3 million new apartments were built in West Germany in the first 15 years after the war.
"The Führer's prophesy that the ruined cities will rise again more resplendent than ever applies doubly to Hamburg," he said, adding: "We won't shed any tears for the vast majority of the destroyed buildings." These architects were quick to pretend that they had absolutely anything to do with the bombastic architecture of the Nazis and their megalomaniacal ideology. Still, not all post-1945 urban planning was a failure.
Nine prewar-style buildings will go up in its place.German reconstruction has led to some odd political battles, like the one pictured here in the Westend quarter of Hamburg.
"Otherwise it would have been renovated." In the 1970s, East Germany too was quickly constructing new apartment blocks, like this one in the city center of Dresden.In 1947, two years before the 200th anniversary of Goethe's birth, Ernst Butler, a literary scholar who was also the museum's curator, lobbied Germany's intellectual elite to lend their voices to calls to rebuild the museum.
The contrast will be stark -- but charming harmony could result nonetheless.
We haven't heard any unfortunate news about Robert Curtis having the … Operation Gomorrah, the week-long Allied bombing campaign that leveled Hamburg in July 1943, served Gutschow's purposes. His vision never came to fruition, but postwar Germany did incorporate many of the modernist ideas promoted by the Nazis.Taken in 1943, this image shows a view of the destroyed city from Hanover's Marktkirche church.
The city elected to tear down the former East German capital building and seat of the communist government, the Palace of the Republic, to make way for the reconstruction of the original city palace.And, yet, the Neues Museum, like the rest of the reunified city, is a symbol of the fissures in Germany's varied history -- its rise, fall and reconstruction as well as the humanism, megalomania and barbarism that have indelibly etched themselves onto so many places across the country.Many in Germany found the country's post-reconstruction cities difficult to love. He was the first British soldier to die in the line of duty in Ireland since 1921. Ironically, the conflict saw left-wing squatters -- including future Green Party politician and German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer -- defending the capitalists of the past against the capitalists of the present, seeking to protect the luxurious residences and gardens of former traders, manufacturers and civil servants against latter-day sharks of the financial and real-estate worlds.
The entire country was buried under rubble -- more than 400 million cubic meters of it alone in what would become West Germany. By the 1960s, an average of 570,000 apartments were being built annually -- the record was 714,000, in 1973. Now, suddenly, they found themselves in the same camp as developers who thought the country needed a radical break from the past, both morally and politically.
British architect David Chipperfield masterfully achieved precisely this balance with his renovation of Berlin's Neues Museum, a construction project that was Germany's most controversial for many years. Never before had so much been lost -- and, yet, never before were there so many new beginnings.
Almost seven decades after the end of World War II, Germany is once again by the emotional questions of what's worth keeping and which of its lost icons are worth rebuilding. Gutschow dreamt of the "structured and dispersed urban landscape" favored by Nazi planners in the hope that it would make Germany's cities less susceptible to bomb damage. Pictured here is Germany's first high-rise apartment complex, Hamburg's Grindelberg, built in 1957.It was a time of strange, powerful coalitions. Rather, the hill was created entirely from rubble leftover after the bombing of Leipzig during World War II. But the German Work Federation, an influential alliance of artists, architects and entrepreneurs, conducted its own straw poll among a group of German intellectuals who subscribed to the tenets of modernism. Düsseldorf has already gone through a similar development. In all, no fewer than 5.3 million new apartments were built in West Germany in the first 15 years after the war.
"The Führer's prophesy that the ruined cities will rise again more resplendent than ever applies doubly to Hamburg," he said, adding: "We won't shed any tears for the vast majority of the destroyed buildings." These architects were quick to pretend that they had absolutely anything to do with the bombastic architecture of the Nazis and their megalomaniacal ideology. Still, not all post-1945 urban planning was a failure.
Nine prewar-style buildings will go up in its place.German reconstruction has led to some odd political battles, like the one pictured here in the Westend quarter of Hamburg.
"Otherwise it would have been renovated." In the 1970s, East Germany too was quickly constructing new apartment blocks, like this one in the city center of Dresden.In 1947, two years before the 200th anniversary of Goethe's birth, Ernst Butler, a literary scholar who was also the museum's curator, lobbied Germany's intellectual elite to lend their voices to calls to rebuild the museum.
The contrast will be stark -- but charming harmony could result nonetheless.
We haven't heard any unfortunate news about Robert Curtis having the … Operation Gomorrah, the week-long Allied bombing campaign that leveled Hamburg in July 1943, served Gutschow's purposes. His vision never came to fruition, but postwar Germany did incorporate many of the modernist ideas promoted by the Nazis.Taken in 1943, this image shows a view of the destroyed city from Hanover's Marktkirche church.
The city elected to tear down the former East German capital building and seat of the communist government, the Palace of the Republic, to make way for the reconstruction of the original city palace.And, yet, the Neues Museum, like the rest of the reunified city, is a symbol of the fissures in Germany's varied history -- its rise, fall and reconstruction as well as the humanism, megalomania and barbarism that have indelibly etched themselves onto so many places across the country.Many in Germany found the country's post-reconstruction cities difficult to love. He was the first British soldier to die in the line of duty in Ireland since 1921. Ironically, the conflict saw left-wing squatters -- including future Green Party politician and German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer -- defending the capitalists of the past against the capitalists of the present, seeking to protect the luxurious residences and gardens of former traders, manufacturers and civil servants against latter-day sharks of the financial and real-estate worlds.
The entire country was buried under rubble -- more than 400 million cubic meters of it alone in what would become West Germany. By the 1960s, an average of 570,000 apartments were being built annually -- the record was 714,000, in 1973. Now, suddenly, they found themselves in the same camp as developers who thought the country needed a radical break from the past, both morally and politically.
British architect David Chipperfield masterfully achieved precisely this balance with his renovation of Berlin's Neues Museum, a construction project that was Germany's most controversial for many years. Never before had so much been lost -- and, yet, never before were there so many new beginnings.