WuWa building H1, ul. Tramwajowa 2, Wroclaw, Poland. Architects Paul Heim and Albert Kempter, 1929.
The Werkbundsiedlung Breslau, built for the WuWa (Wohnungs- und Werkraumausstellung) 1929, is located in Dabie/Grüneiche, northeast of the Hala Stuleca.
Like many Nintendo arcade hits, Sky Skipper was also released on the Atari 2600. Despite the fact Nintendo has a long institutional memory and often trades on nostalgia, Skyskipper is not frequently referenced.
Did you know that video games were being developed as early as 1940? In that year Edward U. Condon designed a game for the World’s Fair that pitted players against a computer in a traditional game called Nim (and the computer won 90% of the time). That’s thirty-two years before Pong came out (and forty years before Pac-Man, pictured above). Learn fun facts like this and more in the Strong Museum of Play’sVideo Game History Timeline.
The Ercolani Arcades are one of the urban elements that most characterize the city. Their name is reminiscent of Monsignor Giuseppe Maria Ercolani who designed them in neoclassical style in the mid-eighteenth century on commission of Pope Benedict XIV. They run along the entire right side of the Misa river which flows near the historic center, extending into 126 Istrian stone arches.
