[!BlAkE]

is the header of an exhibition staged in Berlin starting from today and running until the end of the year. If there's any doubt in anyone's mind that Hitler and his staff must have been completely out of their mind, a look at the structures which were in planning should finally disabuse them. The 'Great Hall', so I've read, was a construction so huge, architects feared the breath of 180.000 people which the building was designed to accomodate could cause clouding beneath its roof and subsequently would rain down back on the audience.
It'd be great if one of Stonyroad's German users could visit the exhibiton and post some pictures here.

[Montoya]

Originally Posted by !BlAkE

so I've read, was a construction so huge, architects feared the breath of 180.000 people which the building was designed to accomodate could cause clouding beneath its roof and subsequently would rain down back on the audience.
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They should build it just to see if that happens

[MajorCyco]

I think it looks pretty cool. Interesting though back to classical architecture.

[TheLanky]

having never been to berlin, it's kind of hard to get a scope of how big that dome would have been...but to fit 180,000 people, it must be a few football fields in square footage...

[aahari]

Interesting concepts. They seem to have incorporated influences from around the globe, such as the Arch de Triump (note the arched pillar in one concept shot), the dome seems to have influences from the dome of the Hafia Sophia, the mirror lake from Washington DC's reflecting pool, etc... but on a grander scale.

[bugreport]

Hey!! where's the Sphinx and the Pyramid?

They get an E- in arcitecture for plagarism, not an original thought showing.

[MajorCyco]

Originally Posted by bugreport

Hey!! where's the Sphinx and the Pyramid?

They get an E- in architecture for plagiarism, not an original thought showing.

That was the whole point. The intent was to model this after the Classical period. I believe that your grade of E- shows that they were indeed able to capture the look and feel of Ancient Greece and Imperial Rome.

While a Flintstonesc or Jetsonian architecture may have been unique, from an appearance perspective it would have been pretty low on the aesthetic cool meter...

[Katana]

in the 30's when albert speer made the design rome and ancient greece where very much in a sort of architectural fashion comeback it was all a part of a architecht movement known as modernising classicism and was especialy popular in europe for use in public works and buildings (of course the fact hitler was a megalomaniac and liked everything "Big" did help speer's career so it was a case of sycophant architecht meeting i got the cash patron

but if you wanna know the details
http://www.translucency.com/frede/speer.html

[bugreport]

Originally Posted by MajorCyco

That was the whole point. The intent was to model this after the Classical period. I believe that your grade of E- shows that they were indeed able to capture the look and feel of Ancient Greece and Imperial Rome.

While a Flintstonesc or Jetsonian architecture may have been unique, from an appearance perspective it would have been pretty low on the aesthetic cool meter...

Sydney opera house, is new style, the CN tower is new, even the London
ferris wheel is new. They get an "E"

Actually they did capture Greece and Rome, they could have had the "real" things,
which explains why.. no Sphinx or Pyramids, and why they never got beyond
the model.