We've seen Robert Götzfried's Munich Olympic Stadium photos, and clearly he has a knack for bringing out the form and patterns of place we all just seem to walk swimmingly through. Well, he here has a stunning collection of photos of indoor swimming pools.
We are a big fan of the clear yet fully engaged eye that Robert Götzfried brings to his photos of spaces, lines and perspectives.
Check his page or any of his great projects we've featured before.
Robert Götzfried is a favorite of ours here. His photos of metro stations, swimming pools and stadiums dazzled us with their geometry and composition. The set of photos from the abandoned Beelitz-Heilstätten Red Army Military Hospital are striking in their empathetic eye; capturing at the same moment both the pathos and the grotesque of these eery environs.
From wikipedia:
"Originally designed as a sanatorium by the Berlin workers' health insurance corporation, the complex from the beginning of World War I on was a military hospital of the Imperial German Army. During October and November 1916, Adolf Hitler recuperated at Beelitz-Heilstätten after being wounded in the leg at the Battle of the Somme.
In 1945, Beelitz-Heilstätten was occupied by Red Army forces, and the complex remained a Soviet military hospital until 1995, well after the German reunification. In December 1990 Erich Honecker was admitted to Beelitz-Heilstätten after being forced to resign as the head of the government.
Following the Soviet withdrawal, attempts were made to privatize the complex, but they were not entirely successful. Some sections of the hospital remain in operation as a neurological rehabilitation center and as a center for research and care for victims of Parkinsons disease. The remainder of the complex, including the surgery, the psychiatric ward, and a rifle range, was abandoned in 2000. As of 2007, none of the abandoned hospital buildings or the surrounding area were secured, giving the area the feel of a ghost town. This has made Beelitz-Heilstätten a destination for curious visitors and a film set for movies like The Pianist in 2002, the Rammstein music video Mein Herz brennt and Valkyrie in 2008."
Here is a new series from our favorite, Robert Götzfried, a series of amazing architectural finds deep in the German forest: hunting blinds.
His entire site is full of amazing photo sets: www.robert-goetzfried.com
Robert Götzfried is becoming a favorite of ours. First we saw his stadiums, then his gorgeous swimming pools. Here there are some beautiful empty metro stations.
German photographer Robert Götzfried has an eye for highlighting the forms and patterns of architecture, as in this mesmerizing series on Munich's Olympic Stadium.
