Die Kongresshalle oder heute das Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin zum #fotomonag
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#Negativeheritage can refer to places that are linked to historically painful, atrocious and/or disturbing events. They are ambivalent, as they are material testimonies of these events, but they are also rejected by a majority of society and need to be re-signified or, in more extreme cases, their destruction may be demanded. An interesting example of re-signification is the case of the #Kongresshalle, an example of #Nazi #architecture in #Nuremberg. For the creation of a Documentation Centre to show the horrors of Nazism, the building was not reconstructed, but left unfinished with the red brick exposed. In addition, a new structure was built on top of the building, placed perpendicularly, so as to simulate a "glass and steel stake" that is running through the building (Sharon Macdonald, 2006).
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13527250500384464

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https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-documentation-center-nazi-party-rally-grounds/jgVxkVfHk444Jw

Image: Stefan Wagner (CC BY-SA 2.0 DE) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentation_Center_Nazi_Party_Rally_Grounds#/media/File:Reichsparteitagsgelaende_Kongresshalle_Doku_48.JPG)