As Yet; still Untitled -> Unofficial new-akiba.com -> Day off.
Original image found on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seier/1244185274/in/set-72157600283667645/
Photgrapher: SEIER+SEIER http://www.flickr.com/photos/seier/
Text, taken from the flickr page (Seier+Seier):
le corbusier famously claimed that all architecture could communicate was ideas. and the original ideas of christiania are well put by the best buildings out there: an open community of equals; a deep distrust, no, dismissal of authorities – including architects; a deep trust in the creative potential of ordinary people when left to govern their own lives. modesty. individualism. sustainability.
today, there is a strong political will to tear the houses down. they are illegal, follow no building code, have no permits. the old copenhagen defense line on which they are situated must be cleared to protect the city’s cultural heritage.
but these buildings are cultural heritage too. and while the 20th century has left us all with a distrust of utopian and idealist thinking, tearing them down will be acting in a dangerous denial of history.
… this story reminded me a lot of the Manor House allotments being stollen for the good of the Olympics developers under the flag of the community development.