Arcadia

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Germany’s first gated community is ready and desperately waiting for the well-off to move in. Located in Potsdam close to Berlin, the project insinuatingly called Arcadia, which was heavily fought over in the past has a lot to offer. A crew of “doormen” and your personal mobile screen ensures that the marauding hordes of Berlin-Kreuzberg will be kept at bay: “doormen and gardeners describe how service is professionally lived and creates a peaceful atmosphere that wouldn’t be possible on the other side of the fence”.

Related: Kendell Geers’ Suburbia at Documenta XI.

Via Süddeutsche Zeitung.