Topic: Today's "Can't Stop Looking At It" Photograph

[Ed Wenn]

I came across this image earlier today whilst searching for Cold War era photos of the former DDR city, Halle-Neustadt, and I've not been able to stop looking at it.

It was taken in Budapest by József Attila in 1966 and it's all kinds of wonderful. Click on the image below if you want to see it full size.

[Francois]

This is surprisingly lovely
Those definitely were the haydays of the utopian high-rise communal dwellings.

[Late Developer]

It's an interesting photo, Ed.  It reminds me of a better kept gaggle of tower blocks not far from Salford University. Rough place, the Police went round in threes - and that was inside the station...!

[Nigel]

This really pushes all my buttons. For a woolly liberal I love a bit of eastern block utilitarian housing. I went to east Berlin hoping it was going to still look like this, but if it does I missed it.

[Francois]

I always find pictures like this a bit interesting, especially knowing what it was like to live there in those days. But somehow it seems the utopian romanticism of the place is more powerful in some ways than the harshness of life...

[Andrea.]

Yes, lovely image.
Having said that I found E Berlin [while the wall was up] interesting everywhere - especially the old buildings with rough brick and scaffolding made of nailed wood!