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Berlin. Hansaviertel. Apartment building designed by Fritz Jaenecke and Sten Samuelson. The formal concept of the building as a slab is clearly visible.

Berlin. Hansaviertel. Apartment building designed by Fritz Jaenecke and Sten Samuelson. A typical modernist slab although with a human scale.

Berlin. Hansviertel. Entrance of an apartment building designed by Pierre Vago.

Berlin. Hansaviertel. Apartment block designed by Pierre Vago. The Hansaviertel is the result of a building exhibition held in 1957. A group of more than twenty international architects built a model neighbourhood according to modernist principles.

Berlin. Mühlen Strasse: stadium. Redevelopment of former East Berlin.

Berlin. Mühlen Strasse, the East side gallery. Parts of the Berlin Wall. The wall was much smaller than I expected: like oversized road obstacles.

Berlin. Alexander Strasse. The east Berlin building blocks are taken over by graphics of western consumer society

East Berlin. soviet modernism at the beginning of the Karl Marx Allee.

aeroflot office in Berlin,  unter den linden. sanitised soviet modernism.

abandoned bar restaurant in Dunkerque France

parking garage of the large shopping mall of Sangatte near the canal tunnel. On the right hand side the entrance of tunnel, behind barbed wire.

shopping mall near the entrance of the canal tunnel near Sangatte

parking deck of a large shopping mall near Sangatte, the entrance of the canal tunnel.

late modern prefab architecture near Vilnius, Lithuania in the early 1970s

soviet modernism in Vilnius, Lithuania, early 1970s.

prefab soviet modernism near Vilnius, Lithuania. early 1970s.

excursion of architects in the early 1970s. My father was invited to visit  prefab construction in the former Soviet Union. This site is near Vilnius, Lithuania.