Yay, research!

[someinstant]

So when I write, I like to have a lot of random reference material. I have whole files full of pictures of Berlin's Stalinist classicism in architecture, word docs full of Schopenhauer quotations, an evolving list of museums with wood prints by the Die Brucke collective, and more links to youtube clips of German expressionist films than can

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[wpadmirer]

Ooooo, that sounds very cool. Makes me want to go there and see it! (I know I can't afford to stay there.)

[someinstant]

Oh, there is no way in hell I'd ever be able to afford such a place. It's just-- the sort of extravagance that's fascinating, you know? Like, I simply can't conceive of having the sort of money that means you can actually expect to stay in the sort of place where they turned the underground bank vault into a swimming pool on a whim.

It's ridiculous and over the top and totally cool.

[wpadmirer]

Exactly. I have signed up for this "jetsetters" vacation package thing. I get their sale notices, and I love looking at 'em, but I can't afford any of 'em. It's nice that you don't have to pay to look!

[anatsuno]

oh wow, yes.

[someinstant]

I know, right? If I'd been one of Nolan's location scouts, I would have been all over this place.

[miconic]

I love it when a place totally gets it and chooses to keep its heritage and link it to the present.

I think we are all spouts and fountains of useful yet nifty information. If only such knowledge becomes handier with time--and company ;)

[someinstant]

I love it when a place totally gets it and chooses to keep its heritage and link it to the present.

Doesn't that just make you fantastically happy? I mean, the historian in me occasionally has a Militant Preservationist lapse ("What do you mean they remodeled the interior? Godless heathens, they're destroying history!"), but I try to mostly keep that under control. I think it's awesome that they realized, hey-- we've got a gorgeous and significant building here: let's make it useful. And they made it functionally modern and beautiful without losing the bones of its past, which is fantastic.

Seriously, I wish we had had some preservationist architects around here in the 1950s and 60s-- Atlanta had some amazingly beautiful turn-of-the-century buildings, but most of them were demolished when their original use disappeared. It's entirely too bad we don't have more of a culture of revitalizing older buildings around here, instead of always building something new.

[lapiccolina]

How cool. Man, I'd like to see those doors.

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Since you mentioned Inception fic...can I hope we're closer to seeing it?!?

:)

[someinstant]

To question No. 1:

If you click on the link in this entry, it ought to take you to a page about their guest rooms. If you let the photos cycle through, you should get a shot that lets you see the doors in one of them. :)

To question No. 2:

Closer, yes. I've got someone doing a bit of translation work, and I need to polish the last section, but: soon. I promise.