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	Plattenbau -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Plattenbau is the (A person of German nationality) German word for a building whose structure is constructed of large, prefabricated concrete slabs, often found in central and eastern Europe.
		The word is a compound of Platte (slab) and Bau (building) also known as Stalin Box.
		While the modular construction method makes it possible to remodel some blocks, some are being torn down, although a lack of funds means many are being left to become derelict.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pl/plattenbau.htm (142 words)

	Encyclopedia: Plattenbau
		Plattenbau is the German word for a building whose structure is constructed of large, prefabricated concrete slabs, often found in central and eastern Europe.
		Sometimes described as "Stalin Box", a Plattenbau building is essentially a tower block.
		The term plattenbau refers specifically to buildings in the former GDR.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Plattenbau (475 words)

	Germany Online: Information Services: Publications: The Week in Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		With the buildings able to be assembled easily out of a number of prefabricated plates, the Plattenbau was a clever answer to East Germany’s postwar housing shortages — and they fit with a state ideology that placed the collective over the individual.
		Now, a 2.5-ton concrete plate that was once part of the wall of a recently torn-down building in a housing complex in the Marzahn district of East Berlin will take its place in a permanent exhibition of the German Historical Museum that juxtaposes daily life in the former GDR with that in the capitalist West.
		A museum devoted to the history of the Plattenbau began construction recently at a site east of Dresden and is set to open by early summer 2004.
	www.germany-info.org /relaunch/info/publications/week/2004/040109/misc1.html (289 words)

	Ballymun in Dresden - Irish Architectural News
		On the evening that demolition crews began to tear down the towers of Ballymun, in north Dublin, earlier this year, an Irishman in Dresden was opening a museum celebrating the same type of unloved building.
		Like most former East German cities, Dresden has its share of the prefabricated towers, known as Plattenbau, hurriedly built in the post-war years by the East German authorities to house the millions of people left homeless by the destruction of the second World War.
		The decay continued in the 15 years since unification; now, though, with generations of young people moving west in search of work, eastern German authorities have started to resettle remaining communities and to remove the most visible symbol of East Germany from their skylines.
	www.irish-architecture.com /news/2004/000187.html (221 words)

	Publikationen Annett Zinsmeister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		MEMODUL the digital memory focus on the Plattenbau as modular utopia of urban DDR architecture.
		Plattenbau as built "utopia" was based on the vision of a flexible constructing set which failed at its economical realization.
		The endless repetition represents the evidence of the economy: The Plattenbau seems to horrify and fascinate at the same time.
	www.ethicdesign.de /produkt_engl.html (350 words)

	East German industrual construction
		Building took off after Erich Honnecker came to power in the early 1970s, with promises to "solve the housing problem." While the GDR did create 2 million new housing units, maintenance was scant, and little money was given to rehabilitating and renovating the older apartment building stock in the country.
		The Plattenbau, which achieved its culimination in the "Wohnbauserie 80" construction is easy to spot, as it is characterized by a kind of monolithic monotony, with the same pattern repeating itself almost endlessly.
		Moving East along the Landesberger Allee, a plattenbau highrise and the more typical, long apartment block.
	www.bcampbell.org /marzahn.htm (811 words)

	What's On at Europe's Museums \| Culture & Lifestyle \| Deutsche Welle \| 12.07.2004
		Dresden dedicates a museum to the Plattenbau; the V&A asks visitors to use their ears; Greece's antiquity museum reopens; Manet's marine paintings appear in Amsterdam, and Berlin looks at Third Reich justice.
		If you've ever wondered what it was like to live in one of the pre-fabricated concrete slabs that served as apartments in the former East Germany, then a visit to Dresden is in order.
		The Plattenbau Museum is an outdoor museum in the Johannstadt district of Dresden.
	www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,,1264936,00.html (749 words)

	BrokenJournal
		It’s unusual in that I didn’t study or prepare for the trip before we arrived and I’m still trying to figure out which way is which, north or south, east or west, all the time.
		There is one place in East Berlin where high-rise Plattenbau were built, but situated so that no windows would overlook the west, preventing the residents from seeing a different, more affluent way of life.
		In other places the grim-looking Plattenbau have been renovated and adorned with new facades or painted in a way that makes the buildings look more attractive and inviting.
	cybergrrl.blogspot.com (3560 words)

	NAI: Extras: Web File: Collage Europa
		Magistrales often employed traditional architectural forms that call to mind the Tsarist architecture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
		This industrialized mass housing using prefabricated concrete panels was built extensively in the former DDR and other Eastern European countries from the end of the 1950s.
		However, there is much more to the development of Eastern European architecture and urban planning than just the Plattenbau - it also includes Modernist, Socialist and contemporary trends.
	www.nai.nl /e/extras_e/webfile_ce/webfile_ce_overview.html (566 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In Saxony, half of all dwellings were built after 1948 and were often the monotonous "Plattenbau" (buildings made of prefabricated elements of concrete), in which new social tensions are arising today.
		A typical example for this is a district of Leipzig called Gohlis-South, which is situated on the northern border of the downtown area behind an extended copse.
		Here they have proceeded in a similar way: "We have tried to unite the interests of the inhabitants and the businesses, with an ecological management of resources and social scientific perspectives in our scenario," explains Deilmann.
	www.smwk.de /en/bw/forschung/1314.htm (795 words)

	German Joys: German Word of the Week: Affentheater
		That promise was fulfilled with the help of the now-infamous Plattenbau -- literally, "plate-buildings." These were prefabricated 5-or-6 story apartment houses that sprang up all over the East in socialist times.
		You can instantly recognize Plattenbau, because it all looks the same -- buildings composed of interlocking brown pebble-concrete construction units.
		People were leaving the decaying inner cities to go live in Plattenbau suburbs, which offered more green spaces and often more room.
	andrewhammel.typepad.com /german_joys/2005/06/german_word_of__2.html (390 words)

	I D A E - INTEGRATION of RES in the revitalisation of European cities: "EU competition for bioclimatic urban ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Although only integrated solutions were evaluated in the competition, this project, despite its limitations, was awarded special acknowledgement due to the exceptional conditions prevailing in Hungary, which do not allow for evaluation parallel to other competition projects.
		The passive utilisation of solar energy in the form of hot water collectors on the roof is also considered to be positive.
		The jury considers this project to be a necessary contribution worth taking seriously in attempts to optimise energy utilisation in Plattenbau types of buildings and it would greatly welcome increased promotion of such projects in Hungary.
	europa.eu.int /comm/energy/en/renewable/idae_site/deploy/prj051/prj051_10.html (529 words)

	faltplatte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		WBS 70/11 is the model description of the eleven storey variation of the building series 70.
		The WBS 70 is the major representative of the construction form knows as "Plattenbau" (prefabs).
		The series is based on a standardised process technology.
	www.faltplatte.de /htmlengl/0101_wbs7.html (178 words)

	Moscow
		Many parks and gardens are present in Moscow, see Sport.
		The post war years saw a serious housing crisis, solved by the invention of plattenbau.
		About 13,000 of these standardised and prefabricated apartment blocks house the majority of Moscow's population.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/moscow.html (1970 words)

	....::::: istari lasterfahrer :::::....
		there is also secretly planned 12" mini-lp on sozialistischer plattenbau, but this is still in the well hidden pipeline...
		this will going to be a dj battle with dj meeuw from meeuw (nl) against istari lasterfahrer from sozialistischer plattenbau (hh).
		well we were there again with off/ffm plattenbau posse, but we forget to tell here ;).
	istari.sozialistischer-plattenbau.org /self/news.html (1004 words)

	Radio Free Mike
		I realize it's not monstrous enough to equal the classic Plattenbau at Marzahn, and its main external feature is pebbledash.
		And it's a common sort of building over here in the east; I'm starting to think of it as infill for bombed sections of the city.
		# posted by Heather : 4:07 PM That's right; my dictionary calls Plattenbau "a building made from prefabricated slabs," and the building pictured above is.
	www.radiofreemike.com /2005/04/questionis-this-plattenbau-i-realize.html (502 words)

	Old Europe Tour 30 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		And the first thing we see is a long row of the familiar GDR Plattenbau - the prefabricated cement-slab apartment building architecture - in fairly good shape, I might say.
		If the Plattenbau is a reminder of the socialist past, here is a more obvious reminder at the entrance to Old Fritz's little roccoco hideaway: "THANKS TO THE SOVIET SOLDIERS: They protected Sanssouci in April 1945 from threatening destruction by the fascists."
		Old Fritz thought a lot of his hunting dogs.
	mars.acnet.wnec.edu /~grempel/tours/europe/oldeurope30.html (249 words)

	NAI: Extras: Web File: Collage Europa
		With a short introduction to typical East German themes such as 'Plattenbau' and links to other websites about DDR culture.
		Virtual 'Plattenbau' museum by the architect Ruairi O'Brien.
		Website with cardboard models of buildings on the Stalinallee and other 'Plattenbau'.
	www.nai.nl /e/extras_e/webfile_ce/webfile_ce_sites.html (320 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Fair Frankfurt
		He pushes the means of photography further by creating images that at first appear to be documentary photos with an ornamental approach.
		Plattenbau (2004), for instance, is an aerial view of a building’s floor plan taken from an impossible vantage point high in the air, though apparently the color image consists of multiple exposures photo-shopped together, eliminating the unique camera perspective.
		The multifocal image appears more as a map than an image.
	www.artnet.com /Magazine/reviews/eller/eller5-24-04.asp (1051 words)

	plattenbau in berlin-marzahn on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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	www.flickr.com /photos/jamessmke/44904847 (53 words)

	HuMobisten: November 2005 Archives
		We're very busy right now with urban planning, as you can see on the picture
		We keep you posted about the Rotterdam Plattenbau project.
		The first time that I have seen the VinylVideo
	www.humobisten.nl /weblog/archives/2005_11.html (377 words)

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