1,053 Comments for Heilstätten Asklepios

wow, I love this picture. Weird about the double sets of doors so close, though... would make a great wallpaper!

It was a new concept to me as well. It does make a lot of sense - if there's no natural hill for gravity, why not utilize the height of an existing smoke stack for gravity?

Well, here in Germany, building a water tower around a smokestack was quite popular some time ago. At least you see it still quite often.

Green was a popular choice. Surgeons first added “spinach-leaf green” to their clothing in 1914 to reduce glare from traditional hospital whites. In the 1930s, hospital decorators used green to influence patient moods. It carried associations with nature, growth and recovery. Tiled surgical suites, patient rooms, clothing and instruments all went green in the post World War Two era.

it honestly looks like a glitch from a video game. good think you are so careful when walking around. to quote ned ryerson from groundhog day....its a doozy

Silver....so they would pad the outside of the doors as a way to keep whats going on inside the rooms private from the waiting rooms......why not just have a thicker door? i guess not having padded rooms whilst seeing a doctor would bring some comfort to the patients heh

I have gone through so many of your images...and this gallery...I have to say is so spectacular!!....the colors, angles, light, rooms...you are a master at capturing the feeling and mood of the buidlings...

I recommend your site all the time. You have inspired me too..I love old buildings and the decay and rot. The amazing process that comes with age and neglect. Please keep up the great work...and I am a fan for life!

Thank you for all your efforts and for putting up this site...

:)

Tough challenges, yes. But we've got a good social system, where everybody can get something to eat. People who steal that metal to sell it for scrap are not the homeless and hungry, but those idiots who never will get enough while acting without any thinking.

Sure, no problem. They have put the 1915 Berlin Phone Book online recently.

Brrr, Weissbier, that's no good! I only drink dark beer, especially Kellerbier ("Basement Beer"), way better! And only my local brands here - I've got about 1200 to choose from, without leaving my region.

Swinging in windows are still the normal type of windows here, especially because almost all modern buildings have roll-down shutters.

OH, please, please, PLEASE can't I have a time machine and go back to when this was brand new????

LOVE the sliding door. My father-in-law is a contemporary architect, and just designed some like that for their new house in 2006.

Eldokid, that is exactly how I feel, too. Someone, somewhere (probably a committee of someones), sat down and designed all these rooms with specific purposes. Always makes me wish for a time machine.

The amount of time and energy put into building these places is simply astonishing.