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Another slice - step back one post for an explanat

Another slice - step back one post for an explanation. The series photographed with thanks to @vedarvisuals

Is this brutal enough? Yep! Bunker 599 in Hei- en

Is this brutal enough? Yep! Bunker 599 in Hei- en Boeicop, in the Netherlands. Photographed with thanks to @vedarvisuals and further view over at @greyscapeworld ). Thank you too, to Scott of @combconstruction who earns the title of super sleuth for discovering the background information. This concrete bunker was used as originally as a soldier’s shelter. It has been cut in half by Dutch designers RAAAF and Atelier de Lyon. The space has taken on a fascinating new life and highlighted an area called the ‘New Dutch Line’ which is made up of a hundreds of concrete defences built over a seventy year period to protect Dutch cities. Imaginatively, the space the defence line protected was reimagined in 2000 as a national park which took more than a decade to complete and is today the New Dutch Waterline (NDW) national parkland. On a need to see basis: you can reach it or simply drive by from Highway A2 - Amsterdam to Den Bosch segment

The 77 metre high, 22 storey, Romanita Housing Col

The 77 metre high, 22 storey, Romanita Housing Collective Housing Tower, Chisinau, Moldova. Wonderful photo with thanks to @and.pudlo And, a nugget of information: famous folks from Chisinau or Kishinev as it was known (yes home to the infamous pogrom) too many to choose from ... so how about cryptographist and cryptologist William F Friedman or Lewis Milestone, Hollywood director / known for All Quiet on the Western Front, Oceans 11 and Of Mice and Men. The housing collective was built in response to a mid ‘70s drastic housing shortage for family homes. Completed in 1986, architect Oleg Vronski. After the fall of communism the tower was changed into private residences. According to #SOSbrutalism “Originally it was conceived as a clinic complex with a roof restaurant, movie theater and fitness facilities. However during contruction work the project was changed into a housing complex. (Special thanks to Kramar [Kollektiv Fischka])”

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