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Article: Dresden diet. (the new Parliament building for the Diet of Saxony in Dresden, Germany)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 1994
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The new building for the Saxon Diet in Dresden both respects the form of the old city and makes a monumental statement about the nature of modern democracy in a place that has been used to oppressive forms of government for generations.
The new building for the Diet of Saxony in Dresden is intended to be an advertisement for the openness of parliamentary processes in the east German state since the unification of the country. And it is a complement to the magnificent skyline of the old city, which survives, astonishingly, with its nineteenth-century profile virtually intact - even after the notorious British fire-bomb raid and the often coarse reconstructions of the ...