Seventy years after the end of the war, Berlin is finally filling the last gaps left by Allied bombs, which destroyed more than two-thirds of the buildings in the city center. Architects say the construction boom offers Berlin a chance to make up for decades of bad planning and mediocre architecture. “This is a new time in Berlin,” says Libeskind [...]. “It’s one of the great cities of the world, and we expect it to compete. We don’t expect it to be some backwater.” — bloomberg.com
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After giving a blind eye to what they principally supported during WWII…isn’t there a phrase about lipstick and pigs?
Even Berlin's bad planning and mediocre architecture is better than the proposed shit.
But I suppose they have to put all the former drachmas, pesetas and lira somewhere.
WWII is over. Nice to see Germany aka the EU building interesting stuff. That OMA building looks very similar to the Ford Foundation, REM knows his references.
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