Giant Lenin sees your Nazi architecture, before destroying it with his laser eyes.
That looks like the tallest building in Warsaw, and Moscow, minus the giant Lenin though.
Nazi Architecture madness
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That looks like the tallest building in Warsaw, and Moscow, minus the giant Lenin though.
Im all for ruin value, but I am against buildings being engraved with Nazi images as rule.
Just read through all seven page of this thread. All I can think of is Mordor & its Orc population, with Mount Doom at the center
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Seriosuly as a Berliner I have to say that I don't get the criticism that gets thrown at the Holocaust memorial.
We are talking here about a GENOCIDE memorial not a WAR memorial. There is a big difference. Even if the war has included war crimes of the most atrocious kind there is still a diffrence between a war and a genocide. The memeorial is incredibly effective in showing the horror, the utter senselessness of the holocaust. If you walk among those THINGS and visit the underground museum (or if you REALLy want to mess with you emotions do it in reverse) I dare you to not be emotionally crushed. I really hits home and achieves its goal. I think it was one of the best additions to my city in teh past decade.
We are talking here about a GENOCIDE memorial not a WAR memorial. There is a big difference. Even if the war has included war crimes of the most atrocious kind there is still a diffrence between a war and a genocide. The memeorial is incredibly effective in showing the horror, the utter senselessness of the holocaust. If you walk among those THINGS and visit the underground museum (or if you REALLy want to mess with you emotions do it in reverse) I dare you to not be emotionally crushed. I really hits home and achieves its goal. I think it was one of the best additions to my city in teh past decade.
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Even the Stalinist designs. I don't like the fact that slave labor would probably have been used to make the Nazi designs.
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On paper yes they do look ridicoulously awesome.
In practice it depends on execution. Tempelhof for example would look quite good if it werent so extremely big. The German Finance Ministry in contrast looks rather nice, mostly because it is surrounded by not nazi building therefore taking the whole over top aspect away. The fact that it has a really nice garden probably helps.
Giant Lenin sees your Nazi architecture, before destroying it with his laser eyes.
If he can see it, remember the weather patterns in Moscow mean that on most days the bottom of the clouds would have been somewhere around the bottom of Lenin's jacket
Resulting in a meme 'the Soviets built a gargantuan monument to Lenin's crotch'?
I like Le Corbusier entree
The Irony about giant ugly lenin statue (to 75 meter high) do bad weather in Moscow, the Soviets would see most time of year only Lenin feet, the rest is obscure by the clouds...
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I have to agree with you on this.
The Holocaust museum in Israel begs to differ.
It's just a plain building with pictures and relics in it. Nothing appealing or impressive, but "nice" enough to make people willing to visit it.
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I agree with Dr. Strangelove.
Jewish Museum in Berlin, by Daniel Libeskind
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, in Berlin. by Peter Eisenman and Buro Happold.
Jewish Museum in Berlin, by Daniel Libeskind
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, in Berlin. by Peter Eisenman and Buro Happold.
Something from the latest GeoEpoche a German magazine. They used 3D modeling for some really nice pictures. To bad I found only two in the net:
Sorry. Feasibility aside, I like grandiose totalitarian architecture. Plans and designs in Stalin's Russia were just as outlandish, and there is even a hint of totalitarianism in public works architecture built in the USA during the 1930's. Really, is what the Nazis proposed worse than the hideous glass and steel phallic monuments to money going up in Dubai, Shanghai, Malaysia, and throughout the West?
My real concern, if I was a German living in Germania in 1950, would be the fact that the plan for Germania and other German cities would irrepreprably harm the historic setting of these places. On the other hand, the possibility exists that Allied bombing before the great victory might have already destroyed much of the historic city centre, so there wouldn't be all that much to salvage. Nonetheless, I'd lobby the Nazis to build entirely new regional centres and a monumental capital to embody the ideals of the New Germany and honor the ancient German cities of the Reich by restoring them to their prewar beauty.
My real concern, if I was a German living in Germania in 1950, would be the fact that the plan for Germania and other German cities would irrepreprably harm the historic setting of these places. On the other hand, the possibility exists that Allied bombing before the great victory might have already destroyed much of the historic city centre, so there wouldn't be all that much to salvage. Nonetheless, I'd lobby the Nazis to build entirely new regional centres and a monumental capital to embody the ideals of the New Germany and honor the ancient German cities of the Reich by restoring them to their prewar beauty.
First: A train that large is impractical.
Second: I give the steam locomotive 15 miles tops before something bad happens. I don't see side tanks or a tender.
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