London in 60s:
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Quote: (01-16-2016 12:20 PM)Laurifer Wrote:My hometown Munich was actually bombed to ashes. 90% of the old town including most historic buildings were in ruins or heavily damaged. The most essential sights such as the cathedral, new city hall and historic churches throughout the old town have been rebuilt, whilst almost all commerical and residential buildings and even many museums and public buildings such as courts etc even in the heart of the city are poor and ugly post-war 1950s and 1960s construction to fill up the many hundreds of streets that had to be completely razed after bombing (or were, in fact, razed by bombing already). Even some buildings might look historic, but they aren't. The tower of the old city hall for example is a complete rebuild that was finished for the Olympic Summer Games of 1972. The rebuild is not even 100% accurate to the old architecture. You of course might still find a significant amount of historic buildings in Munich, but they are usually rebuilt and there is not really a single block that consists out of them; they are scattered in between endless blocks of cheap post-war construction that had to be put up fast to make a city of back then almost 1 million people work again.
A good portion of southern Germany escaped allied bombing, so Stuttgart and Munich are supposed to be well preserved.
Quote: (01-19-2016 01:12 PM)goldenhinde Wrote:
My hometown Munich was actually bombed to ashes. 90% of the old town including most historic buildings were in ruins or heavily damaged.
Quote: (01-17-2016 12:56 PM)storm Wrote:
I was in frankfurt two or three years ago and I thought it was beautiful. The main square honestly looked just like your picture. Here is a modern photo from the wikipedia page.
My understanding is that there were detailed architectural records from which the germans carefully reconstructed the old architecture. I was sure it was the vast majority, and am confident that if we do a google search we can actually get a number for how much was preserved.
A respect for antiquity is all well and good but as far as I've seen all of these building are still there. There are other building which are more modern... one can argue that the architecture allowed for by modern styles is ugly and uninspiring but that is not what people are saying in this thread.
Quote: (01-19-2016 06:23 PM)churros Wrote:
Sure these houses are nice. But they are quite literally the only row of old houses in the entire city of Frankfurt!
Quote: (01-19-2016 12:33 PM)Krieg Wrote:
London in 60s:
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