Caption

Duisburg-Hochheide, large housing estate Wohnpark Hochheide, 6 20-storey tower blocks with over 1440 flats, from the 1970s, one tower block called Weißer-Riese was demolished, 2 empty and gutted tower blocks are also to be demolished and the plots converted into the Hocheide municipal park, site of the first demolished tower block, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Date

Mar 12, 2021

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jochen Tack

Reference

BRK25B19_495

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

118,9Mb (6,1Mb) / 26,3in x 17,6in / 7894 x 5265 (300dpi)

Keywords

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