…in the world

Daejeon (Taejon), ROK

Berlin Wall in Daejeon, South Korea

Location: Hanbit Square 6 segments   The world’s fair in 1993 (Exposition Universelle Internationale, shortly: EXPO) took place in the than developing South Korea – exactly 100 years after Korea’s first participation at an EXPO (1893 in Chicago). The overall subject of the EXPO ’93 was The Challenge of a New Road of Development. Germany, […]

Marwitz, BB

Berlin Wall in Marwitz, Germany

Location: private property, Historische Bauelemente 2 segments from Pankow After the German Unification, a lot of demolition works, core removals and renovation was done in the new federal states. Scrapped stuff was dumped. Olaf Elias soon got specialized in saving historical components and antiques from the Renaissance to Bauhaus and GDR-Objectivity and has made it […]

Seoul, ROK – Dobong-gu

Berlin Wall in Seoul, South Korea

Location: culture bunker 3 segments During the Korean war, an anti-tank defense shelter was build in the Northwest of the South Korean capital Seoul in order to prevent the advance of the North Korean military. The apartments within the complex were basically for the soldiers but also a camouflage for the military facility underneath it. […]