"Palast Transplant" by Ollie Burchell 
  

Within the leisure block, inverted façade elements work alongside borrowed elements to create an original, yet strangely familiar architecture. The material palette references Berlins draconian Critical Reconstruction, but within the setting of the Palast der Republiks youth disco, complete with dancefloor, constrained within the structure and proportion of a fascist masterplan.

The rooms contained within act as preserves of spaces lost to the wrecking ball of reunification. Like the memories shared between families, the past is incorrectly recalled and rebuilt not to celebrate Germania, but the joyous and unusual nature of the Palast, which lost its spiritual home to a fake. The soul of the Palast now occupies the body of something initially proposed to do the opposite.

Concrete walls are left exposed throughout, including marks and tiny splashes of paint left behind from the construction process. These blemishes are meant to offer a subtle nod to the overaching philosophy.