How modest is Dresden? The city sets great store by himself. Each arch, gable houses each and every wicket - the entire architecture of the small city of vanity is checked to see if everything really looks like, as befits a former electoral and even royal residence. Measure of Dresden is the past.
New Developments be judged by ideological standards, preventing - or realized. Building in Dresden today means mostly boredom or even ugliness. Only in the case of Waldschlösschenbrücke it was because of an alleged botched bridge aesthetics significant public protests, while elsewhere the many architectural misdeeds of public indifference or even willingly accepted - except for a few outraged letters to the editor. This is the form of Waldschlösschenbrücke, although remotely similar to a railway bridge, still one of the most successful designs in Dresden today's architectural profile - einmauernden the post-user solution, the Wöhrl department store and around the cinema, yes, a wicked be building on Prague Street are architectural atrocities far greater proportions. Really bold and contemporary in Dresden, however, has rarely an opportunity. Dresden sets is no value to themselves. apply
While the rebuilt Semper Opera, the Palace and the Church, rightly as highlights of the city ensembles, it is the not so prestigious historical buildings is long in the neck, much more important buildings of cultural importance or falls further back ... Dresden also places no value on this matter himself.
An architectural arbitrariness: Looking into the present design of the Prague street.
Prager Straße Dresden - confused!
Germany, Germany everywhere ...
The so-called Blue House - Built about 1960 the first "skyscraper" Dresden - once housed the Institute of Industrial Economics, after the collapse of the temporary employment service. It is a listed building and more recently for sale.
Immediately prior to the Blue house (background) is on the road Tiergarten hindämmernde front of the Villa Salzburg, once one of the most magnificent architecture and history Dresden's most interesting villas. To 2005, is the preservation and history of the villa, which is based in the former Villa Education Center for Conservation and Restoration of old buildings eV (WBZ) care. After the Free State of Saxony had his priorities for the education and training in heritage conservation and Restoration of old buildings in 2005 changed to an institution and a master's degree program in Görlitz, had to WBZ finish its work and move out of the villa, since the Villa Salzburg is for sale, its receipt more difficult. - Also a way of dealing with valuable historic structures in today's Dresden ...
Whether the Dresden Saxony warriors can help?
The time was the popular dance-establishment and tourist restaurant Donath New World in Dresden-Laubegast, it was known for his music great Alps with Alpine Alpine Glow and thunderstorms. ... Supernatants of the historical building of the Second World War and the German Democratic Republic (since 1956 was to warehouse, after the turn it remained unused and fell into disrepair). It has been untouched by the flood 2002nd Since 2003: Decline and destruction. On 20 August 2004 destroyed the half-timbered building by arson almost complete. The end of an era ...
The former Department Store Bergmannstraße - a ruin in the shadow of the present ...
My Dresden - a city just like any other ...
Our beautiful downtown ... (All photos: MB)