Showing posts with label Aldo Rossi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aldo Rossi. Show all posts

Thursday, 24 September 2015

Quartier Schützenstrasse

Just a few blocks north and east of his Südliche Friedrichstadt housing complex is another project by Aldo Rossi.  Occupying an entire block bounded by Schützenstrasse, Markgrafenstrasse, Zimmerstrasse and Charlottenstrasse in central Berlin, the 1998 Quartier Schützenstrasse is unmistakably postmodern Rossi's:











Wednesday, 23 September 2015

Südliche Friedrichstadt

Although I have passed by this landmark by Aldo Rossi many times during my regular visits to Berlin, this is only my first time taking pictures of it when I visited Berlin this July and August.  Typically postmodern Rossi style, the 1981 Südliche Friedrichstadt housing complex is part of the Internationale Bauaustellung (IBA):