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Germania 2011 - another Bruno Taut Institute Junket
We parked the Bruno Taut Institute rental car outside the Munich Opera and went to see what we could find.
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Best thing in Munich. Munchner Stadtmuseum proposition in relation to "invention of tradition":
"Invented traditions serve to stabilize societies by taking legitimizing recourse to a supposedly shared history. While such traditions often prove to be the wishful thinking of local patriots, they nonetheless help to shape the identity of a city." -
Celebrating the carbon tax.
Vienna, Hotel Stadthalle, extension to Passivhaus standard, 10% discount if you arrive by train (we did, the 911 rental car was a fiction). -
Went to Freiburg to check out some PlusEnergy work by Rolf Disch.
Check his links:
www.solarsiedlung.de
Das Sonnenschiff - Mixed use commercial building. -
Die Solarsiedlung - PlusEnergy housing development
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Heliotrope - single house which rotates to follow the sun.
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Some Freiburg vernacular solar.
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Solar Aldi at Vauban in Freiburg.
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Solar Aldi performance figures.
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Gare de Strasbourg. Some extra circulation space and a link to the subterranean trams in a glass "slug" across the front of the 19th centuray gare.
An eminent landscape architect we work with suggested it wasn.t a slug it was a sausage. A "stras" -
Nice set.
Does the Aldo do anything differently inside or is it the same old story, yards of open-fronted refrigerators and '80s hit muzak? -
Thanks Peter.
Didn't actually go inside the Aldi so its interior remains unknown. Tourism gives you such a warped view of the world.
They had a catalogue on display outside which looked just like the ones we have in Melbourne but in German.
There seemed to be more Lidl and Rewi Supermarkets in Germany so maybe Aldi are taking on Coles and Woolworths in the Antipodes as an alternative to competing at home.
Of the supermarkets we ventured into the experience was not much different than antipodean supermarkets. -
"This means nothing to me! Ahh Vienna." Midge Ure
Faceoff at Michaelerplatz. Looshaus v Hofburg Palace. Adolf Loos and the bourgoisie give Emperor Franz Josef and the aristocracy the finger in 1911. The story is even though Franz Josef made Herr Loos add the green base and columns the absence of ornament upset him so much he shut all the blinds in the palace and stopped using the Michaelerplatz entrance.
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