Richard B. Woodward's absorbing photo-essay in Sunday's New York Times. It's about the once super-secret West German underground command-and-control bunker designed to house 3,000 of the government's most essential personnel in the event of a nuclear attack (the U.S. version, under the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia, and now open for tours, had space for only 1,000. Go figure.).
Twenty-five photographs by Andreas Magdenz are currently on view at the Janet Borden Gallery in SoHo. If you're in Gotham, you oughta go: the pix in the paper are compelling. The exhibit's up through February 21.
The complex, which contains 897 offices, 936 sleeping cubicles, and 25,000 doors, took 12 years, from 1960-1972, to build. It cost $1.4 billion. It's going to be dismantled, at a cost of $120 million, and then flooded.
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