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dresden military history museum
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there is a list of german cities that i would love to walk though and gaze upon. the list is kind-of, sort-of long as well as continually being added to and so presents a small problem in visiting them since germany is not so tiny. on top of which, a normative job is being played out in my days and some weekends you just want to hang around prenzlauer berg and live local. however last week was all exploration in two new cities. dresden was first and instantly had a strong affinity for the place.
we took the bus (read: i told my mom there was no other way to travel; cheap here) and got to dresden in two short hours with bokoos of euros saved. plus, they give you wasser and fig granola bars on the ride. double score. our place was in the new part of town and just a walk away from the old part. this whole NEW part and OLD town is common language in european cities. Sometimes still intact are the old medieval walls that gives one a sense of how compact the city really was. Also to see the growth that happened as the city was bursting out of the seams for more land to live on.
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play-by-plays are not really my forte as i get on tangents and not sure anyone really cares about all the details, for they should just experience something similar to know how the story goes.
the sketch above is from a building i was completely taken aback by. the ginormous gesture of old and new. a redefinition of worlds colliding and something emerging from them. i believe this architectural move was quite appropriate for what the designer was trying to achieve. many locals are upset. they are allowed to be. the building is begging for an emotional and intellectual focus on history. in this specific case: the history of war.
as we know, dresden was decimated in 1945 at the tail end of world war II. this occurrence totally razed the historic center of they city. it's truly amazing to walk through the streets as it has been restored almost as it once existed before bane.
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architect: daniel libeskind
completion: 2011
previous uses: saxon armory | nazi museum | soviet museum | east german museum
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approach
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scale
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juxtaposition
[fancy architecture word for one thing next to another]
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view to the city
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| model © Studio Daniel Libeskind |
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