Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Karl-Marx Allee tour - August 8, 2006
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A Stalinist building. It's tattered. I fear another tile will fall on Martha at any minute. Yet the balconies overgrown with vines give it a bit of charm.
What would it be like to live here? Many of the buildings in this area (Friedrichshain) look identical - impossible to identify one from another but for the street numbers. Or perhaps, by the amount of erosion.
A Stalinist building. It's tattered. I fear another tile will fall on Martha at any minute. Yet the balconies overgrown with vines give it a bit of charm.
What would it be like to live here? Many of the buildings in this area (Friedrichshain) look identical - impossible to identify one from another but for the street numbers. Or perhaps, by the amount of erosion.