Journal
04.10.2024
Design quality
The post-war landscape
A feature of Denmark’s landscape is the sheer number of Second World War military installations.
These brooding, massive concrete structures hunkered down amongst dunes, largely reclaimed by nature, have a powerful abstract presence. They have a strange sort of beauty.
Yet as one wonders through and over them it’s impossible not to reflect on the effort, resources, money and carbon that man - and it is always men - has squandered on the futile pursuit of war and the catastrophic irreparable impact we’ve made on the planet.
What a waste.
