one of the most visible reminders of the Nazi era, returns to center stage with the World Cup finals. It was originally designed by Werner March in 1934-36 and renovated in 2004. The article, StarTribune, Minn.
I think it is outrageous that people eat popcorn and drink beer in a place that Adolf Hitler used to promote Nazi propaganda. I also think it is a shame that an architecture office would even dare touch it. How desperate for a job do you have to be? (I couldn’t find their name anywhere).
So many well-intentioned Germans work so hard to reshape the poor image of the country they inherited and then someone comes and does such a stupid thing. I don’t get it.
mcreimer, i dsiagree, i think a structure can be given a new meaning...and if you were to destroy or abandon all the strucutures used by totalitarian regimes for propaganda, rome, moscow, berlingand st petersburg would be pretty empty places...a structure retains its uses regardless of the political situation...(obviously that doesnt apply to concentration camps, they need to stay for a different reason)
mcreimer, von gerkan, marg + partners are like the Foster and partners of germany I am very surprised that you couldnt google them.
You sound like you want to be more german than the germans...Dealing with a traumatic past is obviuosly a complicated matter getting rid of buildings is palinly naive and sidesteps the issues. I particularly feel happy that I can (not eat popcorn) but drink beer in the Olympiastadion, as much as I feel great satisfaction by not being aryan and using the bathrooms in the Haus der Kunst in Munich (thinking Hitler take that!), a building of fascist architecture that was the Third Reich's first monumental propaganda structure and now one of the best contemporary art museums in Germany. http://www.hausderkunst.de/
On a side note the Haus der Kunst is exhibiting Herzog & deMeuron at the moment.
I thought it was a great way the Germans tried to steadfastly live with its past, however traumatic , shameful and horrific; it WAS their past and history. I am glad to see they took a larger challenge than many others by engaging the built structure's past, instead of razing it or distancing from it. Now that's radical remembrance and forgiving!
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I think it is outrageous that people eat popcorn and drink beer in a place that Adolf Hitler used to promote Nazi propaganda. I also think it is a shame that an architecture office would even dare touch it. How desperate for a job do you have to be? (I couldn’t find their name anywhere).
So many well-intentioned Germans work so hard to reshape the poor image of the country they inherited and then someone comes and does such a stupid thing. I don’t get it.
, renovation architects.
This is the stadium where Jesse owens shamed the racial (aryan) supremacy propaganda bringing 4 olympic medals to his country.
mcreimer, i dsiagree, i think a structure can be given a new meaning...and if you were to destroy or abandon all the strucutures used by totalitarian regimes for propaganda, rome, moscow, berlingand st petersburg would be pretty empty places...a structure retains its uses regardless of the political situation...(obviously that doesnt apply to concentration camps, they need to stay for a different reason)
mcreimer, von gerkan, marg + partners are like the Foster and partners of germany I am very surprised that you couldnt google them.
You sound like you want to be more german than the germans...Dealing with a traumatic past is obviuosly a complicated matter getting rid of buildings is palinly naive and sidesteps the issues. I particularly feel happy that I can (not eat popcorn) but drink beer in the Olympiastadion, as much as I feel great satisfaction by not being aryan and using the bathrooms in the Haus der Kunst in Munich (thinking Hitler take that!), a building of fascist architecture that was the Third Reich's first monumental propaganda structure and now one of the best contemporary art museums in Germany. http://www.hausderkunst.de/
On a side note the Haus der Kunst is exhibiting Herzog & deMeuron at the moment.
I thought it was a great way the Germans tried to steadfastly live with its past, however traumatic , shameful and horrific; it WAS their past and history. I am glad to see they took a larger challenge than many others by engaging the built structure's past, instead of razing it or distancing from it. Now that's radical remembrance and forgiving!
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