Bunker Archaeology. "Walking along the beach some years ago, I noticed a dark structure emerging from the mist ahead of me," J.G.
Ballard writes in today's Guardian. "Three storeys high, and larger than a parish church, it was one of the huge blockhouses that formed Hitler's Atlantic wall, the chain of fortifications that ran from the French coast all the way to Denmark and Norway. This blockhouse, as indifferent to time as the pyramids, was a mass of black concrete once poured by the slave labourers of the Todt Organisation, pockmarked by the shellfire of the attacking allied warships.
" # Architecture Principe N°7 Claude Parent / Paul Virilio. # SEA /// Atlantikwall. Atlantikwall/ mur de l'Atlantique/ Atlantic wall was the german sea side protection from allied attack from 1941 to 1945.( more here )Following I'll show you some of the amazing concrete bunkers/blochaus that have been built by the german Army to protect the coast from Norway to France.Today most of this buildings are crumbling into parts, or sinking in the beach sand...
-I made a special SEA thematic selection with only sinking bunkers.More here, here and hereThe best book ever about those bunkers is famous Bunker archeology of Paul Virilio. the map of the Atlantic wall.