Comments on: ‘You are Hochhaus!’: Ballard in Berlin http://www.ballardian.com/you-are-hochhaus-ballard-in-berlin Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:59:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jordi http://www.ballardian.com/you-are-hochhaus-ballard-in-berlin/comment-page-1#comment-5825 Jordi Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:34:37 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/you-are-hochhaus-ballard-in-berlin#comment-5825 One thing that was omitted, I don't know if it was due poetic sense or because Paul genuinely ignored it, but the ones responsible for the mess at the Ponte were not the original middle class suburbanites who lived there, it was done by the invading gangsters who took the tower after the collapse of apertheid and most of the original inhabitants left. One thing that was omitted, I don’t know if it was due poetic sense or because Paul genuinely ignored it, but the ones responsible for the mess at the Ponte were not the original middle class suburbanites who lived there, it was done by the invading gangsters who took the tower after the collapse of apertheid and most of the original inhabitants left.

]]> By: scot http://www.ballardian.com/you-are-hochhaus-ballard-in-berlin/comment-page-1#comment-1340 scot Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:54:51 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/you-are-hochhaus-ballard-in-berlin#comment-1340 What an excellent article. Lets hope the work makes it outside Germany. However one small error of fact mentioned by your interviewees: "Up to 2004 it was the biggest building south of the equator. " Centerpoint in Sydney is over 300 metres. The MLC Tower is 228. There's no way that Ponte tower was ever the largest lower in the southern hemisphere (residential tower, maybe) - Centrepoint and the MLC centre are 1970s builds. What an excellent article. Lets hope the work makes it outside Germany.

However one small error of fact mentioned by your interviewees:

“Up to 2004 it was the biggest building south of the equator. ”

Centerpoint in Sydney is over 300 metres. The MLC Tower is 228. There’s no way that Ponte tower was ever the largest lower in the southern hemisphere (residential tower, maybe) – Centrepoint and the MLC centre are 1970s builds.

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