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Post by Bonobo on Jan 31, 2017 13:27:19 GMT 1
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 7, 2020 1:12:56 GMT 1
Strange tower in Krynica. Looks like a walking combat machine from Star Wars.  
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Post by naukowiec on Feb 8, 2020 23:32:49 GMT 1
Southern Poland, Poprad Valley Beautiful. Looks like a walking combat machine from Star Wars. Our minds are working in two completely different directions. I see a potential amusement park ride, like an old mine train or rollercoaster type thing. Sort of like this:  |
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Post by pjotr on Feb 9, 2020 13:43:46 GMT 1
I love this thread. Post more of these threads Bo🙂 The beautiful, unknown and spectacular sights of Poland. But also for instance remnants of Stalinist architecture, Socialist Classicism, architecture of the Soviet Union in Poland given to the Brotherly Slavic Socialist People of Poland in the late forties and fifties. Are there more buildings than the Palace of culture who reminds people with a historical awareness, but which democratic and free Poland integrated so wonderfully in the new late 20th century (nineties) en 21th century Free, Democratic and Capitalist exciting architecture. Skyskrapers, modern office buildings, modern bank buildings, head quarters of the Warsaw branches of insurance companies, McKinsey, Morett Ernst & Young, KPMG, modern shopping malls. I loved it and love it Bonobo. I was proud of Poland in 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2015, before PiS took office.
I loved and love the fact that Poland 🇵🇱 despite it’s tragic past showed and shows the layers of history in it’s architecture, art, sculptures, statues and memorials. The Old Polish, but also the old Italian (Renaissance architects of Polish kings and magnats), Bohemian, Saxon, Austrian Habsburg, Prussian (18th and 19th century), Czarist Russian, Interbellum (1919-1939), Sanacja era ([1926-1939), Peoples Republic Poland 🇵🇱 (1948-1989) architectorial elements in present day Poland. In Wrocław they for instance rebuild and restored prewar Breslau, by rebuilding old German buildings, churches and no doubt castles and villa’s?
I have great interest in ‘Land art’, ‘Industrial heritage’, ‘infrastructural elements’, landscapes and panoramic views in various European nations. In Germany 🇩🇪 they are allergic to certain aspects, phases and periods of their past. They dislike the Prussian militaristic, the Nazi German (Third Reich), and East-German (DDR) parts of their past and their short but brutal heritage in Namibia, and their long troubled past of tension and ‘Drang nach Osten’ (Urge for the East) in their quest for Lebensraum (Living space). What I don’t like about Germany that in their democratic, social and goodwilling and anti-fascist and anti-imperialist and anti-militarist attitude, mentality and activism try to erase as much of that Prussian, Nazi and DDR era as possible.
Poland is more mature in showing it’s multi-layered, painful, sad, dark and sinister past, by turning history upside down. The Stalinist Palace of Culture is surrounded today and merged with the surrounding great Western, American style Capitalist architecture. That created on of the greatest Panoramic scenes of Poland. Never hide your history, but show all parts of it like in Poland 🇵🇱.
Cheers,
Pieter
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 9, 2020 23:20:28 GMT 1
I love this thread. Post more of these threads Bo🙂 Are there more buildings than the Palace of culture who reminds people with a historical awareness, I was proud of Poland in 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2015, before PiS took office. I loved and love the fact that Poland 🇵🇱 despite it’s tragic past showed and shows the layers of history in it’s architecture, art, sculptures, statues and memorials. The Old Polish, but also the old Italian (Renaissance architects of Polish kings and magnats), Bohemian, Saxon, Austrian Habsburg, Prussian (18th and 19th century), Czarist Russian, Interbellum (1919-1939), Sanacja era ([1926-1939), Peoples Republic Poland 🇵🇱 (1948-1989) architectorial elements in present day Poland. In Wrocław they for instance rebuild and restored prewar Breslau, by rebuilding old German buildings, churches and no doubt castles and villa’s? I have great interest in ‘Land art’, ‘Industrial heritage’, ‘infrastructural elements’, landscapes and panoramic views in various European nations. In Germany 🇩🇪 they are allergic to certain aspects, phases and periods of their past. They dislike the Prussian militaristic, the Nazi German (Third Reich), and East-German (DDR) parts of their past and their short but brutal heritage in Namibia, and their long troubled past of tension and ‘Drang nach Osten’ (Urge for the East) in their quest for Lebensraum (Living space). What I don’t like about Germany that in their democratic, social and goodwilling and anti-fascist and anti-imperialist and anti-militarist attitude, mentality and activism try to erase as much of that Prussian, Nazi and DDR era as possible. Poland is more mature in showing it’s multi-layered, painful, sad, dark and sinister past, by turning history upside down. The Stalinist Palace of Culture is surrounded today and merged with the surrounding great Western, American style Capitalist architecture. Pieter Ok, I will.  Of course, there are more of them. The whole Nowa Huta is one giant remnant of communism. Architects from all over the world come to see it, more than Krakowitself coz there are hundreds of Krakow-like cities in the world while Nowa Huta is unique. Be still proud of Poland despite the fact we are ruled by political gangsters right now. They will pass and land in prisons one day for all their dirty deeds. Polish architecture is based on so many trends because Poles, as a Western Slavic nation, have adopted freely from European heritage what they liked or what was fashionable at the time. They restore German heritage now, but there were dark times too when it was destroyed on purpose after the war. You say mature. But there are still people who dream of pulling the palace down. Mostly right wingers, indeed. I don`t care if they do - it`s not my cup of tea as I dont` live in Warsaw. |
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 9, 2020 23:23:41 GMT 1
Our minds are working in two completely different directions. I see a potential amusement park ride, like an old mine train or rollercoaster type thing. Sort of like this: What? Great minds always think alike! There must be some short circuit. It wouldnt` come to my mind as I have never seen such a wooden rollercoaster in Poland. All I have seen were metal. |
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Post by naukowiec on Feb 12, 2020 21:05:43 GMT 1
There must be some short circuit No, it is only your brain that is fried  I have never seen such a wooden rollercoaster in Poland. They're quite scary to go on because they feel creaky and rickety. I've been on this one:  |
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 13, 2020 23:04:32 GMT 1
No, it is only your brain that is fried they feel creaky and rickety. Yes, I know, I think too much - millions mental operations per hour. I can imagine. |
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Post by naukowiec on Feb 23, 2020 0:03:49 GMT 1
I think too much - millions mental operations per hour. I wouldn't worry about it, I have a problem shutting my brain down too! |
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 27, 2020 22:46:35 GMT 1
I wouldn't worry about it, I have a problem shutting my brain down too! As naukowiec, you shouldn`t do it too often. |
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Post by Bonobo on Jun 26, 2020 15:58:10 GMT 1
Strange tower in Krynica. Looks like a walking combat machine from Star Wars. I should have shown the views from it:    |
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