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Please, Don’t Stop: How Berlin Started the Reconstruction and Has Never Finished

Berlin has been rebuilt four times over the past hundred years: first by the Nazis, then by the Allies and Soviets. The reconstruction of the city’s eastern part launched by the German authorities ...
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Квітуча Україна: Кераміка Оксани Грудзинської

Художниці Оксані Грудзинській зараз 100 років. Вона оздоблювала перші станції київського метро, павільйон на ВДНГ, створювала декоративні ...
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‘Reconstruction of Dresden is Fake’: An Architectural Historian on How Not to Rebuild the Historic City Centres

Dresden was widely considered a gem of German Baroque architecture before World War II. In 1945, it lost its status when the joint British and American air strikes flattened its entire central part ...
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“The Idea to Start Rebuilding During the War Was a Success”: An Architect on How World War 2 Improved Warsaw

After World War 2, Polish architects decided to turn the ruined Warsaw into the best city in the world. Unlike future generations, their contemporaries did not appreciate the idea. Bird in Flight has ...
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Alaska Diaries: Kivalina, the Slowly Sinking Village

Photographer Vlad Sokhin is working in Alaska, where he documents the effects of global warming. Bird In Flight publishes his diary once a week. Below is Vlad’s report from Kivalina — an island ...
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Time Shows: Ultra-long Exposure in Works of Michael Wesely

Art photographer Michael Wesely films life in one frame – from photographs of flowers with a week-long exposure to a year-long architecture reconstruction. Michael Wesely’s works are more than ...
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In Bed with Death: A Story of a Man Who Lived with the Body of His Loved One for Seven Years

Silk soaked in wax and plaster that replaced the decayed skin, bones connected with piano strings and wire, body stuffed with rags, a wig from hair cut before death and glass eyes — this was what Carl ...
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Fragmented Thinking: The Architecture of Sergei Sviatchenko’s Collages

Artist Sergei Sviatchenko has been working with collage for over 40 years and is one of the most influential artists in the world in this field. His works can be based on fragments of the body, ...
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Flat Roof — From the Evil: How Hitler Destroyed Modernism

Ninety years ago, Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany. He declared modernism as an enemy direction in architecture, forcing its representatives like Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and ...
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“The Post-War Temporary Housing Wasn’t Much Different from Concentration Camps”: A Historian on Rotterdam’s Reconstruction after World War 2

Bird in Flight continues its series of publications about the post-war reconstruction of cities with an interview with Dutch scientist Stefan Couperus. He told us how the German bombings of central ...
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An Empty Museum: How Post-war Beirut Failed to Become New Paris

The Lebanese Civil War ravaged Beirut, dividing it into the Christian and Muslim parts. The post-war reconstruction aimed to restore the city to its former Paris of the East glory, albeit city ...
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Сородительство: Как создать семью, не заводя отношений

Мир учит новое слово — coparenting, «сородительство»: это способ завести полную семью, в которой партнеры не состоят в отношениях. Bird in Flight ...