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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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"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."
Vienna, Hotel Stadthalle, extension to Passivhaus standard, 10% discount if you arrive by train (we did, the 911 rental car was a fiction).
Check his links:
www.solarsiedlung.de
Das Sonnenschiff - Mixed use commercial building.
An eminent landscape architect we work with suggested it wasn.t a slug it was a sausage. A "stras"
Does the Aldo do anything differently inside or is it the same old story, yards of open-fronted refrigerators and '80s hit muzak?
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.
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.