2024-12-22T02:30:59-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/149979050/the-short-life-and-bitter-end-to-munich-s-yellow-submarine Julia Ingalls 2016-11-26T12:26:00-05:00 >2016-11-28T12:30:16-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/x4/x4qlz1dxssbxei9s.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Made of 16 bathtubs with specially installed portholes, 'Yellow Submarine' was a hotel room/political housing statement, and one of the 24-winning designs in the&nbsp;2015 Shabbyshabby Apartments competition.&nbsp;Created by the Glasgow-based and Lithuanian-staffed collective Urban Restart along with Kurt Cleary, the design is purposefully referred to in the past tense: only two days after it was erected in Munich, it was destroyed. This prompted speculation that vandals, or right-wing extremists opposed to refugees, were responsible.</p>