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Thursday, April 06, 2006
Dismantling the PalaceHere's what the Palast der Republik looks like these days:
Berlin is tearing it down because it's ugly and loaded with asbestos. Oh, and ex-Communist. The East Germans put it up in the 50s on the (salvagable?) ruins of the old Hohenzollern castle. Now a certain cash-poor organization wants to put up a rebuilt, Disneyfied Hohenzollern castle, which pisses off some Berliners as much as the modern Palast pissed off nostalgic Germans back in the day.
Good thing it sits on a river, though, because unloading "29,000 tons of steel, 83,300 tons of concrete, and 300 tons of glass," according to Der Tagesspiegel, would need 13,710 traffic-jamming trucks. Which would piss off me.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
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