Zoo chic!

Check out the tiles (late 50s, early 60s) in the Tierpark’s Alfred Brehm Haus! Don’t they make you wish you were a bird or a wildcat?  Being enclosed in a tiny space and stared at by humans all day is but a small price to pay for living in such visually pleasing surroundings, no?

RIP Walter Womacka

East Germany’s most prominent artist, and the man behind many a brilliant mosaic,Walter Womacka, has sadly died. Gawd rest his soul.

Hear me roar!

Mosaic on the side of the fabulous Alfred Brehm Haus, an early 60s architectural marvel located in the Tierpark, East Berlin’s (better) answer to the Zoologischer Garten. Sadly, an old GDR building sitting untouched in the middle of a tourist attraction was too much for the city council to bear, and the Haus is set for renovation soon. Which will no doubt turn it from the architectural equivalent of a fine vintage into a horrid, cheap bottle of Liebfraumilch that no-one wants to drink. Except by people who don’t know any better. Prost!

Living on the ceiling

This is the ceiling in the Alfred Brehm Haus wildcat enclosure in the Tierpark. Groovy! I wonder if the lions and tigers appreciate it?