SPREE | DUALITY TOM BRADLEY
SPREE | DUALITY
A section of the Spree river that runs from Jannowitzbrücke to Elsenbrücke is under contest. The advancement of the Mediaspree policy that will see the area transformed into the home of Berlin’s music industry is an unshakeable disease to the community it has infected. Crude corporate edifices along the waters edge stand awkwardly in a rough terrain of underdeveloped parks, community space and historic legacies. Remains of the Berlin wall, abandoned industrial warehouses and bridges destroyed in the Second World War express their presence in the landscape. Amongst a site of rich political history, the scars of Berlin’s recent past lie exposed and vulnerable to the establishment of insensitive architecture. These issues serve to define the area as a dualistic place caught in tension between two competing worlds.
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A section of the Spree river that runs from Jannowitzbrücke to Elsenbrücke is under contest. The advancement of the Mediaspree policy that will see the area transformed into the home of Berlin’s music industry is an unshakeable disease to the community it has infected. Crude corporate edifices along the waters edge stand awkwardly in a rough terrain of underdeveloped parks, community space and historic legacies. Remains of the Berlin wall, abandoned industrial warehouses and bridges destroyed in the Second World War express their presence in the landscape. Amongst a site of rich political history, the scars of Berlin’s recent past lie exposed and vulnerable to the establishment of insensitive architecture. These issues serve to define the area as a dualistic place caught in tension between two competing worlds.