Dresden
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- Factory building and storehouse of the cigarette company ›Yenidze‹,
named after a tobacco town in the former Ottoman Empire.
Built 1908-1909 by architect Martin Hammitzsch mixing Art Nouveau and Moorish elements. Chimney and pens had been encased as minarets. Since the restoration in 1996 it is used as an office
building and houses a restaurant with a 360° view of Dresden.
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- View from the cafe on top of the roof. The 20 meters high
cupola is made of coloured glass and illuminated at night.
Inside, directly beneath the cupola you can enjoy
readings of tales in oriental atmosphere.
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- Russian-Orthodox church from 1874
(Outside the city center at Fritz-Löffler-Platz)
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- Early Russian architecture mirroring in late GDR architecture …
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- The ›Blue Marvel‹ (Blaues Wunder)
As a cantilever bridge with a length of 260 meters it was regarded as a technological marvel at the time of its completion in 1893.
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- Prager Straße – Dresden's ›Boulevard of Broken Dreams‹
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- The new Synagogue (2001) by the architects Wandel, Lorch, and Hirsch
(Saarbrücken). Built on the site of the original Semper Synagogue
which had been burnt down in the Kristallnacht of 1938.
(Address: Am Hasenberg/Rathenauplatz, close to the Brühl’s Terrace)
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- Fountain on a street in the Dresden-Neustadt district
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- Volkswagen’s ›Die Gläserne Manufaktur‹
(The Transparent Factory, www.glaesernemanufaktur.de)
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- Side view of the Transparent Factory
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- The VW factory had been built within the city between a residential area (as you can see on the picture) and the Großer Garten park.
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- The vehicle tower of the Transparent Factory
with countless Phaeton cars