September 15, 2009

Remembering the Plattenbau.



36 x 12 m sculpture of Plattenbau Housing, photo on flickr, by gynti_46

Concrete sculpture of a 'Plattenbau' (building made with precast concrete slabs, mostly built in eastern Europe before 89) by Dagmar Schmidt, in Halle, Germany: Public privacy.

3 comment(s):

kitchen tables said...

Wow! Very nice! I was amazed with all the concrete structures! Very nice!

Marco said...

seriously, one of the best works of public art I've seen in a long time ... as a monument for the slowly disappearing plattenbau it really couldn't have been done better.

Snippety Gibbet said...

What a great sculpture.