the newest architectural addition to the ministry of finance. a cubic monolith.
in late march i went for another city walk again, this time around the upper south east district, an area that's full of villas & mansions. there are a few very modern buildings scattered across the area, but mostly it's a really homogenic neighborhood perfect for taking a lovely sunday stroll.
i have taken photos of that building before, but i continue to find new perspectives. i really think it's a really interesting piece of architecture. it looks so smooth & well-aligned. the slits in the lower part of the building give insight into a parking deck. i also love the little tree in the center of the building.
early blooming in front of a black & white tower
there's an ELIA ( employer's liability insurance association ) inside this building, for energy, textile, electro & media product industries.
built in 1905 this building now houses a communication & design agency. it has quite a few art nouveau elements.
i love capturing the details of all the old mansions in wiesbaden. there's so much to discover! it's just pure stimulus satiation. sometimes i feel the need to capture all the buildings throughout wiesbaden, but then i remember that this is obviously a snafu undertaking, haha. i would have to walk the streets one by one and i feel like that would need a lifetime to complete. even though i think it'd be a neat little project. ( if little meant excessive & exuberant lol )
can you imagine going to school here? yes, you heard it right, this is a bilingual elementary school of the obermayr europan school - a private school with dependances all over wiesbaden & the taunus region. the historism building is existing since 1876 and the architect is alfred schellenberg. it's a monumental folly for sure.
another schellenberg building but from much later, 1912. it's not very historicized anymore, right? the form language clearly is a lot less elaborate, on the intersection of art nouveau & art deco.
this one is pretty equal in execution as the house prior, but a different architect was at work here, sigmund langrod. it was built in 1907.
wiesbaden architects are not so well-known, this is why i rarely find any information about them. let's just say, i'm really glad that i get to find at least the erection date & the associated architect :P i don't know why, but i feel the need to research about the places i've seen or been to ( which always steals a lot of time, especially when you search for stuff, that no one else seems to be interested in, or that you need a deeper research for. ) the world wide web can be useful, but it irks me a lot that some specific information can't be found very often ( and fast ). i don't really like the process of researching because of that. i'm someone who needs to have the information right in the second i type it in, but unfortunately, the world doesn't play this game with me. as a perfectionist though, i crawl my way through it, only to sometimes give up in sheer frustration over my inability to find specific information about a certain topic. ( since i am not a studied architecture buff, this probably needs a lot more time than i should waste on it, lol )
sometimes i need to break all this architecture up with some brightly coloured primrose lawns. phew. what a delight!
this gorgeous building is a heinz berg production built in 1910. i love the banana coloured facade & most of all the entry with its lovely staircase balustrade. so elegant.
more & more trees & plants started blossoming. always such a wonderful time, spring.
wallflowers. i personally feel very attracted to this kind of growth :)
those tiny petals & leave buds are really soothing my eyeballs. so cute!
the gable of this building lured me in with the head of a faun-like creature. could also be satan. you choose.
beautiful balcony. the building stems from 1896.
along the way, let me introduce you to another population of wiesbaden: the rose-necked parakeet. what, you say, you don't think parakeets can survive in the cold german wild? i assure you, they can. especially in the rhine river region they are very common. somehow someone must've set some of them free in the past, and then the harm was done. i personally LOVE them. it's such an exotic thing to have in a country that's actually not known for having wild parakeet populations :P granted, the population is not immensely huge, but still big enough to notice them flying around in flocks. they have such a beautiful green plumage! only their calls are tedious. especially when they start searching for their sleeping trees & start to gather.
peekaboo!
that tree surely had its fair share of parakeets.
somehow i ended up in a not so nice area, with slightly disheveled house construction. ( more modern as well ). this was totally deserted and the area around it was kind of creepy.
detail shot of another gem.
sigmund langrod built even more buildings in that area, and comparing to the one above, this one is actually heavily inspired by medieval architecture. in 1902, only 5 years before he built the more sleek & elegant building i showed you earlier.
this classicistic dream in white made my heart go boom! it's so pretty! it was built 1897 by wilhelm köster.
yellow forsythia petals are another wonderful sign that spring has already sprung.
a neo-renaissance dream! villa justitia built by christian dähne in 1903.
so many wonderful details!
another building in the same style you can find further down the road. couldn't find any information about this building. i detect that it was built by the same architect above, but i also can be wrong. nice gables, though.
i stumbled upon smashed glass and it was a fascinating sight ( better even in motion ), so i took a picture and then moved on. or better, ended my walk soon after :P
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