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Küçük Hasan Pasha Mosque, Chania

Posted on 10 January 2018 by mark
Reading time 7 minutes
architecture art Germany Museums

The Museum of Saxon Folk Art, Dresden

Posted on 20 December 2017 by mark
Reading time 6 minutes
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Castan’s Panopticon, Berlin

Posted on 6 November 2017 by mark
Reading time 5 minutes
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The Palast der Republik, Berlin

Posted on 28 September 2017 by mark
Reading time 11 minutes
Germany history

The Ministerial Gardens, Wilhelmstraße, Berlin

Posted on 5 August 2016 by mark
Reading time 14 minutes
history UK

“Let’s go to the Colonies!”: The Festival of Empire at the Crystal Palace, 1911

Posted on 29 July 2016 by mark
Reading time 11 minutes
Germany history Museums

Berlin’s Museum of Marine Science

Posted on 26 May 2016 by mark
Reading time 13 minutes
Czech Republic history

Prague now and then: Antonin Langweil’s model of the City

Posted on 19 March 2016 by mark
Reading time 7 minutes
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The Train from New York to Boston

Posted on 12 January 2016 by mark
Reading time 4 minutes
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A map of post-war Berlin

Posted on 2 May 2015 by mark
Reading time 4 minutes

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  • Castan’s Panopticon, Berlin
  • The Demolition of Robin Hood Gardens, East London
  • Destruction and the Spirit of Hildesheim
  • The Rhodes folklore museum in Kolymbia, and fascist urban planning on the shores of the Aegean

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  • Berlin’s ‘Firelands’
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  • The Rhodes folklore museum in Kolymbia, and fascist urban planning on the shores of the Aegean
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  • Decadence and Despair in Berlin’s Central-Hotel
  • The Roland Statues of Northern Germany
  • Destruction and the Spirit of Hildesheim
  • The Peasants’ “Museum” in Dresden
  • The Kristall-Palast Theatre, Frankfurt
  • The Demolition of Robin Hood Gardens, East London
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