As in Germany the bunkers of war time revive

Seventy years after the end of World War II and twenty-six years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there are still plenty of military bunkers in Germany.

They were built during the reign of the Third Reich and during the Cold War, and during this time it was shown that they were either impossible to destroy, or it was very difficult to do so without jeopardizing other buildings.

Unusual sale

In 2007, the German government decided to sell about two thousand bunkers to individuals, offering investors and architects fantasize about the possible use of them. And here are some bunkers, which as a result have become something new - in this issue, Germany has not missed.

Transformation of bunkers

In Cologne, above-ground bunkers from the Second World War were turned from shabby, painted graffiti into a luxurious residential complex.

As a result, this complex accommodates 17 lofts with large windows, terraces and even its own courtyards. But what to do with the bunker, which is too expensive to demolish, but it is not located close to residential areas? In Frankfurt, a wooden structure was built over the bunker, which now allows artists to work. In Berlin, the bunker, which during World War II people sheltered during the air attacks, was turned into an art gallery, where a personal collection of advertising magnate Christian Boros is exhibited. Previously, this bunker was intended to cover three thousand people - and now it is three thousand square meters of exhibition space with a five-hundred-square-meter superstructure on the roof where the Boros family lives. And in Bremen, the architect turned fourteen bunkers into houses, one of which he lives himself, or office buildings, all of them very different from each other, although they were originally identical.