Since I was looking for an image of the Palast der Republik...
Ostblog linked to the homepage of Faltplatte, a company that makes paper models of socialist-era buildings in Berlin. We own the Stalinallee/K-M-Allee editions, though we've left them in the plastic because we'd actually rather put them in a frame some day than build them. There's something really appealing about flat models, with all the tabs and upside-down pieces.
We bought up a bunch of the postcards, too, which I see are now sold out; I'm sure they'll reprint them.
I also looked online, without success, for the Mitteldeutscher-Kartonmodell Verlag, which manufactures paper models as well. A friend gave us one of an apartment building in Henningsdorf, and it's a specific, uninteresting building that people live/d in. I thought that was a nice concept and would have liked to get more models of every-day, small-town buildings rather than just the big historical ones in Berlin. And frankly I'd like some of those monstrosities in Wedding, too.
Posted by Heather at March 17, 2004 08:48 AM
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