…Blikkiesdorp was built in 2008 for an estimated R32m (£2.9m) to provide “emergency housing” for about 650 people who had been illegally occupying buildings…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/01/south-africa-world-cup-blikkiesdorp
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Berlin’s Tempelhof may be the ideal inner-city airport – until it’s shut and left to rot, that is. By Jonathan Glancey
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2004/jul/26/architecture.germany
“The wheel is the perfect symbol for the 21st century,” Gereon Asmuth wrote in a commentary for Berlin’s TAZ newspaper. “It is completely superficial … a luxury, symbolising nothing and at the same time, embodying the very intoxication of being momentarily raised above this nothingness.”