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difficult to explain how funny this is but oh my god https://twitter.com/DougSaunders/status/1247804289914826759">https://twitter.com/DougSaund...
for over a decade the german govt has been laboriously demolishing a former communist showpiece and parliament building in east berlin called the palace of the republic, and replacing it with a facsimile of the building that was there before it, the kaiser& #39;s berlin palace...
every single step of this process has been hilariously, ubergermanly persnicketed and debated to death. the Palace of the Republic was detested as being ugly and a symbol of a now-hated regime, and it was also basically made of solid asbestos
on the other hand the kaiser& #39;s palace was never a particularly celebrated building and it& #39;s not like anyone has any especially fond memories of *that* regime either
every tiny detail has been fought over endlessly, and the budget has ballooned while the project delays endlessly. the fight over whether it should have a full-size dome could alone be like a 50-tweet thread
ok fine this is true but i do think (having seen it from the outside as a wee lad in Berlin in like 2004) that it is one of those lost buildings whose reputation will grow greater the longer it has been gone https://twitter.com/owenhatherley/status/1247856318372818944">https://twitter.com/owenhathe...
ANYWAY now it& #39;s on fire (? - developing) and the budget will probably explode again and they& #39;ll delay it again and lmao
we haven& #39;t even talked about how part of the original palace does still exist, moved and glued onto another building for propaganda reasons
alas, i have committed ddr discourse
