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While some reshape paneling, cleansing it of associations with the typical and impersonal, others find in it notes of romantic nostalgia.
Panel building is not just an apartment building. It is a cultural reference to an entire era.
The Polish publishing house Zupagrafika, for example, works with the typical aesthetics of panel buildings. There are also many projects devoted to photographs of typical architecture in social networks.
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Since the 1980s, panel houses have been systematically disposed of. However, it is not always the case that getting rid of them meant demolition.
Today, panel houses make up the bulk of the housing stock in Germany, Poland and post-Soviet countries.
To some architects, the unsightly legacy of the post-war years did not seem so hopeless. The houses were subjected to large-scale reconstruction.
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