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walks iii * Treptower Park
Treptower Park, a day of walking in the rain past abandoned fairground rides and the truly monumental soviet war memorial.
Spreepark I (formerly “Kulturpark Plänterwald”)
was open from October 1969 to 2001, now abandoned. owned by Norbert Witte - closed with debts of €11,000,000 [in 2004 Witte was arrested for attempting to smuggle £14m of cocaine from Peru to Germany in the masts...
walks ii * around Marzahn
Berlin Marzahn with a complicated history including: the first district to be conquered by Red Army forces on 21 April 1945; the site of a labour camp where Roma were interned two weeks before the Summer Olympics of 1936; and where in March 1973 the Politbüro of the SED announced the objective to build 55,000 new apartments by 1980 as a solution to the housing crisis.
Today, Marzahn has the...
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walks I * Bibliothek Friedrichshain-Kreutzberg to...
08/12/2011 Starting at the Bibliothek Friedrichshain-Kreutzberg….
Central Library Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (2010) Frankfurter Allee 14a a former school remodelled by architect: Peter W Schmidt
Velodrom (1999) Architect: Dominique Perrault
Velodrom - towards Forum Landsburger Allee
Ernst-Fürstenberg Straße
Denkmal des polnischen Soldaten und deutschen Antifaschisten (1972)...
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urbanautica: PHOTOTALKS: 'SCOTT CONARROE' →
urbanautica:
1. You photograph within a tradition in which travel or a road trip becomes part of the process. How much do you prepare regarding locating sites. Also, since the photographs are made from an elevated position I am interested to know whether you sense photographic opportunities from the ground…
June 2011
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“The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which...”
– Guy-Ernest Debord: The Society of the Spectacle (1955)
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