villa justitia. every year in september the day of the open memorial offers you the chance to take a look inside various buildings who are officially landmarked. it's pretty cool, because you get to see buildings that under normal circumstances you rarely get any access to. and even for free! the villa justitia on uhlandstraße was one of those listed landmarks that opened its doors for visitors last year. the villa is a wonderful example of wilhelminian architecture, which was a style that mixed historism with ( back then ) modern schools of construction. villa justitia is a mixture of english tudor, gothic & art nouveau, and if i may say so, it's a highly decorative building. it was erected in 1903 by christian dähne for private use, but as time went by it had a lot more functions over the decades. from the film company thora to a music publisher and now a law office it went through quite a lot of purposes. inside the villa everything's pretty neutral, but ...
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