Jan-Erik Andersson: The demolition of the "Blue House" (Sininen talo) Art Nouveau building
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Uploaded by anderssonart on Mar 14, 2011
Artist Jan-Erik Andersson's video work "The Destruction of Beauty" is published on YouTube to influence the debate about to role of ornate wooden building for the built environment. The ornate Finnish Art Nouveau buildings with the ground floor made of bricks and the first floor made of wood are unique.
The"Blue House" (Sininen talo) building in Turku, by Carl Armfelt, was built in 1902 and destroyed in 2011 as a consequence of a political decision made by the City Council.
The building is also called by the name of the previous owner Wikeström & Krogius. The existing company with the same name has nothing to do with the demolition.
Please, share the video! © Jan-Erik Andersson 2011
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Like watching someone's teeth getting pulled :(
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Wrong decision. Next year they will regret it. It was part of the town's and country's history.
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They can't really do that because 1: those machines are pretty hard to control and 2: they need to bring the building down so all the peices are small enough and so it is safe to walk around the site and that none of the debree gets on roads.
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pull the fucking thing down and stop being a nancy boy
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What are they building there, condos, a mall?
City councilors and mayors would sell their mothers for a dollar and a vote.
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Älkää syyttäkö työmiestä vaan päättäjiä. Kuntavaalitkin tulossa, niin miettikääpä mitä teette.
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@demomanwreckit thnx, i can tell you that we found pretty intersting stuff from there
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Volvo makes a good wrecking machine
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Those guys are good. They show no mercy on the old house. Just the way a wrecking crew should operate, after all they are there to wreck it, not to save it. Nice job, men.
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hijos de puta mira que derriban esa preciosa casa...
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Fuck Åbo. What a shit hole.
jannestrang 11 months ago 5
Quite a quick work isn't? How about now to also implode the Tuomio Kirkko as next? Imagine how many makkara kioskis we could put in there instead of these old stuff all around such a historical city? Really incredible. Anyway, while looking at it I could see all that beautiful, good quality and genuine Finnish Sisu on that wonderful Wikeström & Krogius building: it was like fighting back and bravely holding strong against the power of that demolition machine. I'm shocked and sad to see it.
EduHelsinki 11 months ago