#friedhofwesthausen

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january '20: new #frankfurt - trailblazing architecture. #newblogpost is up - link in bio 🏙️ a walk through the early modern #praunheim settlement in frankfurt - built between 1927 and 1928 by ernst may and colleagues for people of low income - and westhausen cemetery, which reveals an exceptional art brut gem. #neuesfrankfurt #newfrankfurt #ernstmay #brutalismus #brutalism #güntherbock #herbertottohajek #antonbrenner #citywalks #cityscapes #architecture #friedhofwesthausen #brennerblock #zeilenbau #cemeteries (hier: Siedlung Praunheim) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYWvjPQN5TO/?utm_medium=tumblr

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i set out to have a look at siedlung #praunheim ( a late 1920ies colony built by ernst may - frankfurt's most well-known city planner ) but ended up loving a 1960 mourning hall way more 😍 the mourning hall at the #westhausen cemetery was built by architect günter bock and sculptor otto herbert hajek ( who contributed also to wiesbaden's very own mauritiuskirche - my absolute favourite church building here 🖤 ). it's a brutalist structure at its finest and entices with a 75 meter long ferroconcrete wall with abstract sculptural carvings. i completely, utterly fell in love with this jewel! talk about never obsessing about anything 😌 turns out that i do, just not over what presumably everyone else obsesses over. #frankfurt #architecture #neuesfrankfurt #brutalism #mourninghalls #friedhofwesthausen #günterbock #ottoherberthajek #sculpturalarchitecture #swiperight (hier: Friedhof Westhausen) https://www.instagram.com/p/B68p9M7KvaU/?igshid=1ibvuqsexctvx