rmcc balcony.
i feel that the colder months are often perfect for exploring the city, since the trees are bare and give way for a better look at certain buildings or city districts. while i am a big lover of green cities, for taking architectural photographs it proves to be a bit difficult as huge trees are kind of blocking your view a lot. i mean, of course i absolutely love an overgrown house equally, but... yeah, for some buildings it just doesn't work. they just need to be enjoyed with less shrubbery & greenery, maybe because they're a work of art by themselves.
when i took these images i meandered around ( as i often do ), searching for some interesting buildings or just looking for tidbits of my city. my way basically lead me through the north east & sonnenberg district and a tiny portion of the south east district, too. these districts are all fairly new when it comes to the architectural landscape, especially in those areas i had chosen to roam around in. a lot of the buildings were erected midcentury, but you can also find a lot of contemporary structures and a few wilhelminian era mansions strewn all over.
in january the completion of the new congress center right around the corner to where i live was still in progress ( it was finally completed & opened in april! ) and i kind of wanted to have some pictures of that before all the scaffoldings & barriers were taken away. i haven't been actively documenting the erection from start to end, mainly because there just wasn't a lot to see, but it was quite the journey. i think the building time was about 3 years and we had to endure a lot of restrictions & noise, but all in all it went through kinda smoothly, except for that time they found a world war bomb and had to disarm that. luckily i was at work at that time, so i got away without having to leave my flat, haha. i will definitely post more pictures of the completed building, i have a few in my draft from april. it's quite a cool building.
the street in front of the congress center had been renewed as well.
right on the other side of the rmcc ( short for rhein main congress center - the offical name ) are some more office buildings from the late 50ies to 60ies.
the extension behind the state museum wiesbaden is bascially a big black box.
sharing is vandalism? how do you think about this sentiment?
building pitch for some new residential buildings popping up near the the brutalist commerzbank complex.
i really like the geometric mosaic facade of this building! it was erected in 1958/59 and is the headquarter of the lotto trust company hessia. architects: adolph möreke & joseph staudt.
right next to the building with the geometric facade is one with multi-leveled balconies. these kind of buildings are actually quite common in wiesbaden.
from time to time you stumble upon some derelict villas, too.
basically a perfect example of real estate speculation: ' i bought this house and am looking for more.' and what do you plan to do with a house like this? what are your intentions? because this building ain't exactly a nice figurehead.
and this picture on the door of the same house is not creepy at all. what's the reason behind it? why was it put up? basically, the house was quite mystic & strange, not obviously, though. only when looking closer you got a strange off feeling and then can detect the clues to it.
bright neon green dot between a sea of black & white houses.
and another abandoned place. finding these make me want to break in and explore. sometimes i really would like to have some kind of inner eye that can see the history of these places. i have an immense fascination for abandoned houses, and unlike some people, never feel threatened or scared by them. it's more like some kind of curiousity button is pushed, but i cannot follow through with it ( due to put up fences and ' do not pass ' signs - they manage to ward me off, especially, since as a single explorer the risk is just so much higher to being caught or get wounded in case of ruinous disintegration ).
overgrown.
the old klinik am bingert - a former rehab hospital. old is of course relative, those buildings are 'only' about 40 years old, but the buildings are not used anymore and basically deteriorating. there's a lot of argy-bargy over this structure, a back & forth of investing quarrels and searching for a proper new use. a lot of the buildings there were torn down already, but the biggest ones still stand, due to unclear reasons. i think the main reason is of course what's always the case with such buildings, they're a feast for real estate speculators.
i figured these could use an HDR makeover, ha. so dramatic.
it's seriously one of the coolest abandoned buildings wiesbaden still possesses ( there are not many ).
really liked the structures & patterns of the balconies.
peeling off.
the old hospital logo is still hanging proudly.
more of the grounds.
i think this might've been a gate house for the clinic, but i can only guess.
i feel very strongly about this raw state facade, i think it would look real cool on an unabandoned building '_';
just a few meters across the street: mid century condos.
and also some real nice historism villas with twinkling lights on their balconies.
i made my way back home through the kurpark grounds, following along the shores of the rambach stream.
it's a really nice area, perfect for strolling leisurely and enjoying the surroundings.
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