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2021-10-02 17:36:40

Staying on a Mediterranean holiday island, where the houses are rather puristically simple or extraordinarily chic in Bauhaus style, during a trip through the country, a point called "curious house" appeared on Google Maps next to our route. We made the detour. :eek: Look here:

It looks a bit like a LEGO castle, only mine used to be yellow.

2021-10-02 18:45:37

Looks a bit like a LEGO castle, only mine used to be yellow.

Yes, I agree with you. It also has something of a princess castle or a sandcastle :D By the way, it is an apartment building, Snow White…, the rooms look typically local and standard, no frills.

2021-10-02 19:24:47

Do you actually know this from Turkey? It's hard to explain, but the investor went bankrupt and this Neuschwanstein domino city stands half-finished and empty.

2021-10-02 19:53:57

Do you actually know this from Turkey? It's hard to explain, but the investor went bankrupt and this Neuschwanstein domino city stands half-finished and empty.

Interesting, I didn’t know that!

FAZ writes among other things: “… … … You can make fun of the Turkish villa army – but does it really look so much worse than an average new German development, where the prefabricated house industry sets up one cheap carton wrapped in thermal insulation plaster after another, only “individualized” by zabaglione- to Tuscan-like wall colors, asymmetric door windows and blue roof tiles? In view of the cascades of design ideas, Designo products and I’m-special claims that pour over the defenseless German suburbs, the monotony of a standard house almost seems refreshing. And finally, the really uninhibited use of columns, bay windows and Gothic window panes reminds one of the great dilemma of semi-conservative Western architects who reconstruct the old but do not want to be considered reactionary and therefore get stuck halfway in an anemic-papery, always strangely disinfected-looking plaster classicism semifreddo. On Berlin’s Friedrichstraße, the architects wanted to revive the forms of the old city but dared not build what really made the beauty of the houses of the old city – the projections and recesses that give a house depth, caryatids, bay windows, volutes, rustications, cold marble, heavy velvet, sizzling high-boiling Gothicisms, the opulently overloaded facades of the Gründerzeit, in whose niches the resident can nest and the eye can fixate like on a rock face. Instead: cheese-slice facades, insulation plaster dreariness, drywall and dry bread houses as far as the eye can see.
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Maybe building aesthetics have to be radicalized: either euphorically cool and crystal clear and maximally reduced – or really drawing from the full. You can laugh yourself silly about the bombast of the comical Turkish settlement, but in the laughter about the kitsch of the others lies also resentment about the bare, half-heartedly adorned Designo dreariness spreading in one’s own suburbs.”

Source: F.A.S.

2021-10-07 21:54:03

Trying out the new phone with night mode .....

2021-10-08 10:22:44

an average new German housing estate, where the prefab house industry sets up one cheap cardboard box wrapped in thermal insulation plaster after another, only "individualized" by zabaglione- to Tuscan-like wall colors, asymmetrical door windows, and blue roof tiles

Greatly phrased and so fitting! :D

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