Industrial scale preservation (5/5)
If you want a visual tour of the Ruhr historical sites and contemporary works, this is probably the only publication you'll need. It's a huge book (640 pages, 35 x 29 centimetres, 4.5kg or almost 10lbs). There are hundreds of architectural photos by Achim Bednorz, who knows his stuff. Page after page of beautiful compositions of exterior and interior of industrial buildings and equipment (steel works, coalmines, railways, bridges etc) street scenes of civic and local houses and amazingly all minus any people. Each geographical area of the Rurh has some historical text detail with maps and some worthwhile explanation of how industry worked. The text is in German, English and French. Definitely a one-of-a-kind industrial architectural book.
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