ghost of nature.

when sad day interferences shock your bones with tumbling lights, tv flickers & screenshots; when people make you feel like an accident & scum and default to lurking in the shadows of your mind silently shouting at you - remember the heaviness of falling through the earth & follow the white rabbit biting its way through the night to the old world, where your astro valentine awaits you with candles & coffee under a july tree that bears love & honey.  

neues bauen in the parkfeld district of wiesbaden. in one of my last posts i introduced you to the work of ernst may's new frankfurt architecture , which was revolutionizing the way architects would design and plan cities in the 1920ies and 1930ies. ernst may continued to work on city construction projects all over germany after that ( and worldwide ) and even made it to wiesbaden in the late 1950ies where he tackled a big reconstruction of the whole city layout. some plans were quite controversial and were given up ( one of them being a scheme to destroy hundreds of old historical villas within the inner city ), something most would say is very fortunate, because otherwise wiesbaden, as it exists today, would not belong to one of the most intact cities of historicized architecture anymore. all of what makes wiesbaden such a jewel today, would be utterly destroyed and would've paved a path to a very generic, completely dull looking inner city. and while i do like modern archite...