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 photo: david lindley designed by american architect peter eisenmann, and roughly the size of a city block, this controversial memorial to the jews killed during the holocaust opened in 2005 just next door to the brandenburg gate. the memorial consists of thousands of grey concrete pillars lined up in a grid formation with undulating paths running through them; the pillars are of different height with the smalllest on the outside and the largest in the middle. three things about this memorial struck me as slightly strange: 1. there was no signage - that i could see - to tell the unsuspecting passer-by what this was all about. 2. in a city where if you stand still for more than 5 minutes you're likely to be tagged, there was not one scrap of graffitti on the pillars. 3. somewhere in the middle of this vast open square, a flight of steps led down to a door with a sign marked 'fire exit'. from what or to where i haven't been able to discover; perhaps it leads to some subterranean cellars from the bombed-out buildings that preceded the memorial. | |
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