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Discussing the fate of modernist buildings in the 21st century. Rebuilding older places in the city.
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Altengrad is a time-progression series where I build a Central European city, located until 1989 in the Eastern Bloc, taking inspiration from Germany, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary. The series starts around the year 1920 and slowly advances forward in time, which means the city will naturally evolve all the way to modern times. The city is not a recreation of any one real-life city or country, but it takes inspiration from them.
PC specs are in the channel's About page. No, the game doesn't run like this in real time. Cinematics are recorded slow and made faster in editing.
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Pictures from Wikimedia Commons unless written otherwise:
(1) Dietmar Rabich / “Berlin, Palast der Republik -- um 1990 -- 2” / CC BY-SA 4.0
(2) Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1986-0418-029 / Rehfeld, Katja / CC-BY-SA 3.0
(3) Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1987-1023-051 / Link, Hubert / CC-BY-SA 3.0
(4) Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1986-0418-011 / Junge, Peter Heinz / CC-BY-SA 3.0
(5) Jörg Blobelt / CC BY-SA 4.0
(6) Karl Döringer / CC BY-SA 4.0
(7) Denis Apel / flyingpixel.de / Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
(8) Thomas Wolf / CC BY-SA 3.0
(9) Jorge Láscar / CC BY 2.0
(10) Ken Eckert / CC BY-SA 4.0
(11) Cybularny / CC0
(12) Romák Éva / FORTEPAN
(13,14) Adrian Grycuk / CC BY-SA 3.0 PL
(15) Kgbo / CC BY-SA 4.0
(16) Jirka Dl / CC BY-SA 4.0
(17) Aktron / CC BY-SA 3.0
(18) Chmee2 / CC BY 3.0
(19) che / CC BY-SA 2.5
(20,23) Venturosa / CC BY-SA 4.0
(21) Jan Polák / CC BY-SA 3.0
(22) Dezidor / CC BY 3.0
(24) Tankwart / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
(25) Kádas Tibor / FORTEPAN
(26) Zajza / CC BY-SA 3.0
(27,28,29) Zdenka Marie Nováková / CC BY 4.0
(30) JiriMatejicek / CC BY-SA 3.0
(31) Mark Ahsmann / CC BY-SA 3.0
(32,38) Wizzard / CC BY-SA 3.0
(33) Immocap
(34) InWest Pilsen / Flickr / Jakub Hlavaty / CC BY-SA 2.0
(35) Hotel Forum Krakow / Radoslaw Ziomber / CC BY-SA 4.0
(36) Department store Kralupy nad Vltavou / own picture
(37) Déli station Budapest
(39) Silesian Press House Katowice before ... / Piotrus / CC BY-SA 3.0
(40) ... after / Marek Mróz / CC BY-SA 4.0
(41) CTU in Prague, FCE before ... / Packa / CC BY-SA 2.5
(42) ... after / Gampe / CC BY-SA 3.0
(43) Motol Hospital Prague today / FN Motol
(44) "Manhattan" Wroclaw before ... / Андрэй Дзмітрыеў / CC BY-SA 3.0
(45) ...after / Emptywords / CC BY-SA 4.0
(-) House of Culture Dresden today
(46) Department store Galeria Kaufhof Berlin before ... / Silke Sohler / CC BY-SA 2.5 DE
(47) ... after / Christian Liebscher / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
(48) Průmstav office Prague before ... / Klaas Vermaas (Klaas5) / Flickr
(49) ... after (Qubix building) / ŠJů / CC BY-SA 3.0
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Discussing the fate of modernist buildings in the 21st century. Rebuilding older places in the city.
You can directly support the channel by becoming a channel member here:
youtube.com/channel/UCMQ3E2ZfpvnUkpUen7iMwHQ/join
Twitter - twitter.com/AkruasStream
Twitch - twitch.tv/akruas
Instagram - instagram.com/akruasstream
Mod collections: steamcommunity.com/id/akruas/myworkshopfiles/?section=collections&appid=255710
Altengrad is a time-progression series where I build a Central European city, located until 1989 in the Eastern Bloc, taking inspiration from Germany, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary. The series starts around the year 1920 and slowly advances forward in time, which means the city will naturally evolve all the way to modern times. The city is not a recreation of any one real-life city or country, but it takes inspiration from them.
PC specs are in the channel's About page. No, the game doesn't run like this in real time. Cinematics are recorded slow and made faster in editing.
youtube.com/c/Akruas/about
Pictures from Wikimedia Commons unless written otherwise:
(1) Dietmar Rabich / “Berlin, Palast der Republik -- um 1990 -- 2” / CC BY-SA 4.0
(2) Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1986-0418-029 / Rehfeld, Katja / CC-BY-SA 3.0
(3) Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1987-1023-051 / Link, Hubert / CC-BY-SA 3.0
(4) Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1986-0418-011 / Junge, Peter Heinz / CC-BY-SA 3.0
(5) Jörg Blobelt / CC BY-SA 4.0
(6) Karl Döringer / CC BY-SA 4.0
(7) Denis Apel / flyingpixel.de / Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
(8) Thomas Wolf / CC BY-SA 3.0
(9) Jorge Láscar / CC BY 2.0
(10) Ken Eckert / CC BY-SA 4.0
(11) Cybularny / CC0
(12) Romák Éva / FORTEPAN
(13,14) Adrian Grycuk / CC BY-SA 3.0 PL
(15) Kgbo / CC BY-SA 4.0
(16) Jirka Dl / CC BY-SA 4.0
(17) Aktron / CC BY-SA 3.0
(18) Chmee2 / CC BY 3.0
(19) che / CC BY-SA 2.5
(20,23) Venturosa / CC BY-SA 4.0
(21) Jan Polák / CC BY-SA 3.0
(22) Dezidor / CC BY 3.0
(24) Tankwart / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
(25) Kádas Tibor / FORTEPAN
(26) Zajza / CC BY-SA 3.0
(27,28,29) Zdenka Marie Nováková / CC BY 4.0
(30) JiriMatejicek / CC BY-SA 3.0
(31) Mark Ahsmann / CC BY-SA 3.0
(32,38) Wizzard / CC BY-SA 3.0
(33) Immocap
(34) InWest Pilsen / Flickr / Jakub Hlavaty / CC BY-SA 2.0
(35) Hotel Forum Krakow / Radoslaw Ziomber / CC BY-SA 4.0
(36) Department store Kralupy nad Vltavou / own picture
(37) Déli station Budapest
(39) Silesian Press House Katowice before ... / Piotrus / CC BY-SA 3.0
(40) ... after / Marek Mróz / CC BY-SA 4.0
(41) CTU in Prague, FCE before ... / Packa / CC BY-SA 2.5
(42) ... after / Gampe / CC BY-SA 3.0
(43) Motol Hospital Prague today / FN Motol
(44) "Manhattan" Wroclaw before ... / Андрэй Дзмітрыеў / CC BY-SA 3.0
(45) ...after / Emptywords / CC BY-SA 4.0
(-) House of Culture Dresden today
(46) Department store Galeria Kaufhof Berlin before ... / Silke Sohler / CC BY-SA 2.5 DE
(47) ... after / Christian Liebscher / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
(48) Průmstav office Prague before ... / Klaas Vermaas (Klaas5) / Flickr
(49) ... after (Qubix building) / ŠJů / CC BY-SA 3.0
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