Wohnkomplex: Art and Life in Plattenbau at Das Minsk, Potsdam

On the terrace of Das Minsk, Potsdam you stand before a sweeping panorama of the city's downtown; a panorama that not only stretches back over Stüler, Persius and Schinkel's St Nikolai Church, an instructive unification of the three, all the way up to the summit of the Pfingstberg with its Italian renaissance influenced Belvedere, thus two easily read indicators of Potsdam's royal Prussian past, but a panorama that also includes an awful lot of Plattenbauten, prefabricated buildings, primarily