What the fuck is that dome? This is the guy (Speer) wehraboos tell me was the best architect who ever lived? He can't even do neoclassicism properly lmao. The rest of the city looks like shit too.

Also mussolini tried some weird combo of stripped classicism and modernism and it looks real dumb. Like pick one or the other dude. Oh wait, Il Duce's too busy hanging off a meathook to listen to me.

  • KingRalphus [they/them,undecided]
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    4 years ago

    Fun facts about the Volkshalle:

    Berlin is pretty marshy, and building huge buildings on it is tricky. The Nazis built a gigantic concrete test pillar near Tempelhof airport, in order to test how well the area would keep buildings like the Volkshalle and Hitler's planned triumphal arch up. If it sank less than 6cm into the ground, building could commence without expensive and time consuming stabilisation work. When it was measured in 1948, the cylinder had sunk 19cm into the ground.

    The dome of the Volkshalle was so large that, if it were ever built, the condensation from people's breath would form rainclouds in the dome. It would literally be raining inside the dome on a cool day.