Category: architecture
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Sigriswil Panorama Bridge, Switzerland
As we drove around Thurnersee on Seestrasse (see earlier posts here and here), at Gunten, we turned uphill and climbed to Sigriswil which is located at 810 m (2660 feet). We came to see the Sigriswil panoramic bridge (Panoramabrücke Sigriswil) that traverses the 182 m deep Gummischlucht gorge through which the stream Guntenbach runs into…
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Page One Bookstore 叶一堂, Beijing
This post is based on one of two very different bookstores in Beijing which I(Chris) visited before the pandemic. First, Page One is a bookstore chain and publisher founded in Singapore in 1983 by Mark Tan (陈家强), which has retail shops built in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Thailand, and in China (since the…
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Bauhaus-Museum Weimar
After Dessau, our next stop was Weimar, 100 or so kilometers southwest, two plus hours by DB. The central German city is well known because of its rich cultural heritage and its importance in German history. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the literary figure, lived most of his creative life here since 1775. Together with Friedrich…
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The New Bauhaus Masters’ Houses, Dessau
… continuing from our earlier post on the original Bauhaus Masters’ Houses, The first house we saw when coming from the School was the new Director’s House (Direktonenhaus) where the information desk is situated. Why are there new Masters’ Houses ? After the Bauhauslers moved out in 1932/1933, the school was closed by the Nazis,…
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The Original Bauhaus Masters’ Houses, Dessau
This is our third post on the Bauhaus site in Dessau. Our visit was made during the centenary year (2019) of the founding of the Bauhaus School of Design. For this post, try a 2020 collaboration by the brothers Eno – Mixing Colours spotify:playlist:0LYxIitOywh75P1SCrrNEz A lot of the academic-sounding text in these Bauhaus posts were…
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The Bauhaus Building, Dessau
Our second stop in Dessau was the Bauhaus school building itself. Let some 70’s Krautrock accompany you on this post. spotify:playlist:3poTntSnquikPDgA4Vx5vO A lot of the academic-sounding text in these Bauhaus posts were partially taken from our purchased books, pamphlets we picked up on site, as well as the copious volumes of writings on the internet…