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Millais on rebuilding Berlin
Malcolm Millais, author of Le Corbusier, the Dishonest Architect and Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture, recently visited Berlin, in part to investigate four examples of how Germans have reconstructed historic buildings damaged by Allied bombs in World War II. … Continue reading
Color film of Berlin in 1900
Although three decades had passed since the Franco-Prussian War and another decade and a half awaited World War I, the Berliners in this 1900 color film (with some 1914 scenes toward the end) of their city appear depressed. The elegance … Continue reading
Paying for Berliner Schloss
Audun Engh of INTBAU kindly noted, after reading my last post, that the figures next to architectural elements and statuary in drawings of a Berliner Schloss façade near the end of the Extrablatt PDF represented not the cost of those … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design, Development
Tagged Audun Engh, Berlin, Berliner Schloss, Extrablatt, Germany, INTBAU, Penn Station, Schinkel
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Berlin Palace, Penn Station
Germany is rebuilding the Berlin Palace, the Berliner Schloss, at an expected cost of €590 million or $665 million, a half or a third of the estimated price of rebuilding Penn Station in New York, which itself is considered understated … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Urbanism and planning, Video
Tagged American College of the Building Arts, Audun Engh, Berlin, Berliner Schloss, INTBAU, Patrick Webb, Penn Station, Preservation, Restoration, Vincent Scully
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The great cities after WWII
Today is the 50th anniversary of the day Japan’s surrender in World War II was announced – a holiday still celebrated in no U.S. state but Rhode Island. It is a day to remember those who died, those who sacrificed, … Continue reading
More grace in glass additions
In researching glass additions worthy of downtown Providence’s Grace Episcopal Church, I came across the image above of the Royal Opera House (formerly Covent Garden), designed by Edward Middleton Barry and completed in 1858, with its elegant glass addition followed … Continue reading
Speer’s Berlin described
Here is another passage from Fatherland, a novel whose plot unfolds almost two decades after Germany has won World War II in 1946. The Fatherland stretches east of Moscow; most of Western Europe that is not part of the new … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture History, Books and Culture, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Albert Speer, Berlin, Fatherland, Germany, Leon Krier, Nazis, Robert Harris
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