Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: Pragerstrasse

Here's a black and white film version of my earlier cameraphone shot (if you've seen it). I thought that given the white-to-grey-to-silver coloring of Centrum Galerie, this would come out reasonably well. I guess it's up to you to judge.

Here's Centrum Galerie, showing the pseudo-Middle-Eastern (pseudo-Iranian?) etchings.

Getting back to Pragerstrasse, where I met my friends for lunch, this is another example of a Communist European building (if I'm not mistaken), that resembles something from the Middle East, possibly Iran (if that counts). However, Germany is definitely not Iran. :-) Centrum Galerie is now an urban shopping center, but I'm not aware of what it was previously. An art gallery, perhaps?

Here's that Pullman Hotel photo that I promised, with the retro lettering up near the roof.

Here's my second shot of the Pullman Hotel, showing it's typical 1960's high-rise look. The decorations (taken in the loosest interpretation) on this side remind me a little bit of what you see on some buildings in the Middle East, and come to think of it you can also find this style throughout the neighborhood around Pragerstrasse (more on this later).

This was an interesting, almost certainly Communist-era building that I found on Pragerstrasse. It's interesting to note that only a few years ago something like this would have been repulsive, either for being Communist or being ugly 1960's (probably) era, as is stripped and tasteless even in the few decorations that it has. However, this mosaic is interesting, and suddenly buildings like this have become interesting in that they're very much of a particular historic time period. Indeed, in the West architecture wasn't radically different. This building is now the Pullman Hotel, and they've deliberately given it letting up near the top (in a later photo) which deliberately tries to look like it's from the 1960's. It's done in a sort of 1960's fake handwritten type of font. (Again, watch this space.)