{"id":644,"date":"2020-02-25T15:28:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T15:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?p=644"},"modified":"2021-01-02T10:58:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T10:58:02","slug":"kaliningrad-city-of-contrasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/kaliningrad-city-of-contrasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaliningrad City of Contrasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">No Laughing Matter!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Continuing with our theme of <a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/?s=architectural+contrasts\">Kaliningrad City of Contrasts<\/a>, I was out walking the other day and I came across this rather splendiferous example. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">On one side of the road you have this spanking new\nblock of flats; on the other, this rather sad and sorry ruined K\u00f6nigsberg\ncottage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" data-attachment-id=\"647\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/kaliningrad-city-of-contrasts\/flats-resized\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Flats-resized.jpg?fit=1260%2C945&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1260,945\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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Or, is\nthat just the sound of my own Romanticist fantasy ringing inside my head? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">If I had a flat which faced the street in the new\napartment block pictured here, every day I looked out of my window and beheld\nthis ruined abode, I would be confronted with the question, is this building\nrestorable?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I would need you there to laugh at me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">But something has to be built on this site at some\ntime. So, let us rephrase the question: would it be possible to salvage\nsomething from this former home and integrate it into a new build as a historic\nfeature?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">You are laughing at me again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">But look at those marvelous chimney stacks, and is that an enamel sign peeping through the trees on the right-hand side? And who knows what may still be lurking on the inside under the debris? Perhaps one of those remarkable tiled K\u00f6nigsberg stoves; 1920s&#8217; door handles; additions and renovations from the Soviet era. If nothing else, the red bricks have to be a reusable, recyclable commodity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">What\u2019s that you say?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It would be easier to keep the curtains shut or buy a flat on the other side of the building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Philistine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Copyright \u00a9 2018-2021 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Laughing Matter! Continuing with our theme of Kaliningrad City of Contrasts, I was out walking the other day and I came across this rather splendiferous example. On one side of the road you have this spanking new block of flats; on the other, this rather sad and sorry ruined K\u00f6nigsberg cottage. 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