Built by forced labour, Nazi bunkers being converted into modern homes

[Bootie]

German architect Rainer Mielke lives in a luxurious, light-filled penthouse atop a Nazi bunker in which his elderly neighbours remember sheltering during the Second World War.

The architect has pioneered the art of converting the grim structures into bright living or working spaces, and his work is set to increase as Germany ramps up sales of the above-ground forts, originally designed as air-raid shelters.
But the work is not without controversy: Nearly all the bunkers were built with forced labour. And as bunkers become hot property, critics warn against treating them like any other real estate without acknowledging their past.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/0...zi-bunkers-being-converted-into-modern-homes/

 

[Hedgehog]

They look ugly, the answer is knock them down, and build some thing with Character........

 

[Sempai]

@Bootie: Is by chance possible the architect is related to the former MfS (secret police of east germany) boss?

@Hedge: I don´t know what You want, Ted? Compared to the hasty cobbeld together and ugly shit they build here since years it has one advance. It is only ugly but it will last long. Seems no character is wanted anymore.

 

[Hedgehog]

@Bootie: Is by chance possible the architect is related to the former MfS (secret police of east germany) boss?

@Hedge: I don´t know what You want, Ted? Compared to the hasty cobbeld together and ugly shit they build here since years it has one advance. It is only ugly but it will last long. Seems no character is wanted anymore.

Yes you are right about some of the early building project's that happen, speaking for the UK we have built horrible concrete building's,in the last 20 years, they have changed and are building good looking house's, Apartments, and even industrial building

 

[Sempai]

I can only hope here they will also make that change.