Fernsehturm Dresden-Wachwitz
Wine-glass-shaped concrete TV tower on the Elbe slopes, with a sealed sky café and lookout.
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This guide to the Fernsehturm in Dresden-Wachwitz follows the people who worked inside the concrete cup on the hill above the Elbe, from the crews who raised the shaft in the nineteen sixties to the café staff who fed East German day-trippers high above the valley. It turns on one cramped round kitchen and a problem its cook had to solve every day. Best heard from the foot of the shaft, looking straight up at the rim.
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