Another mega-structure is the "Koloss of Prora", a 5 km long concrete complex next to the Baltic sea (Google Maps: Binz), a workers resort of the Nazi-regime, designed by Clemens Klotz in 1935, constructed between 1936 and 1939. It was supposed to shelter 20.000 people at the same time, who would be allowed to vacation affordably at the seaside, even though controlled and manipulated; certainly those persecuted from the regime were excluded from this community. Because of the German war of aggression it wasn't finished and never used for its purpose.
After the war parts of the building were used to house bombed out and expelled persons, later as a casern of the NVA and after 1989 as a youth hostel; now museums (about the history of Prora) and galleries moved in while the unused parts tumble down increasingly.
The complex is a listed building owned by the Federal Republic of Germany, that already sold 7 of the remaining 8 blocks to private investors. Plans for youth hostels, freehold flats and hotels haven't been realised yet.
Along with the former "Reichsparteitagsgelände" in Nuremberg it's one of the biggest remaining structures of Nazi-architecture and as such an impressive and graspable example for the enormous and outrageous demand of power of the Nazi-regime.
How much influence should have its past, that stayed intention and idea but never took place at Prora, on the future projects?
The complex is a listed building owned by the Federal Republic of Germany, that already sold 7 of the remaining 8 blocks to private investors. Plans for youth hostels, freehold flats and hotels haven't been realised yet.
Along with the former "Reichsparteitagsgelände" in Nuremberg it's one of the biggest remaining structures of Nazi-architecture and as such an impressive and graspable example for the enormous and outrageous demand of power of the Nazi-regime.
How much influence should have its past, that stayed intention and idea but never took place at Prora, on the future projects?
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in 2004 atelier Kempe Thill won an international competition for this superstructure
http://www.atelierkempethill.com/0030.html
hi,
another interesting structure is "le lignon", a city-cell near to geneva. 1km of architecture, the only one in switzerland.
http://www.lignon.ch/
http://www.dentan-etancheite.ch/images/references_lignon_big.gif
i also invite yout to visit my blog: http://architectureallinclusive.blogspot.com/
I forget the name of the architect but there is structure similar to this in Ho Chi Minh City built about a decade after this. Though the Prora is truly magnificent in its own right.
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