When the roof of this modernist, extravagant building in Berlin came down in 1980 I watched the news on TV. An early memory of mine #ThrowbackThursday .

I was just a handful years old and could remember having played inside the large hall all day in the big LEGO exhibition and playground just days before this collapse happened - it had been a super fun day, kids everywhere and so much LEGO to build with! That afternoon I had been pondering to ask my parents to go again. - No, it wasn't to happen, it was years before the building and its architecture was restored again.

(Oh, and btw this is the same roof and building used in the 2005 Aeon Flux movie.)

This is where the picture is from: https://archiv.hkw.de/de/hkw/geschichte/erinnern/einsturz.php

https://archiv.hkw.de/de/hkw/geschichte/erinnern/urbaschek.php

#berlin #history #hkw #geschichte #kongresshalle #1980
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