by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog This thing is colossal, a sheer asymmetrical beast of stark adjoining structures. Tempelhof Airport owes its asymmetry to its lack of completion; Ernst Sagebiel, who designed this place, couldn’t complete his vision due to the outbreak of war in 1939. Despite this, construction on the central … [Read more…]
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog In the early 60s, the architect Walter Segal and his recent wife Moran Scott decided to demolish Scott’s London home. Scott having four children from a previous marriage, and with Segal moving in, they decided more space was needed. Whilst in the process of transforming these Edwardian … [Read more…]
Five More Forgotten Avant-Guarde Buildings by Asia Leonardi for the Carl Kruse Blog From fires to bombings, from building speculation to structural risks, the list of edifices, neighborhoods, avant-garde buildings that we have lost in the course of our history is vast. Sometimes, it was due to unforeseeable agents, causes of force majeure, such as … [Read more…]
by Asia Leonardi for the Carl Kruse Blog From fires to bombings, from building speculation to structural risks, the list of edifices, neighborhoods, avant-garde buildings that we have lost in the course of our history is endless. Sometimes, this was due to unforeseeable agents, causes of force majeure, such as environmental disasters, war, invasions; other … [Read more…]