Sunday, January 1, 2012

Columbushaus


designed by Erich Mendelsohn & completed in 1932


billboards screening the construction from Berlin's Potsdamer Platz:1931-32
 




 Receiving some damage during WWII, it was the East German workers' revolt on 17 July 1953, in which protestors set the Columbushaus on fire, that destroyed the building.  The Soviets tore down what remained in 1957.





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