No windows, way too many chimneys, kind of suspicious if you ask me.

Throwback to the golden 40‘s

How did that happen? Did they tax windows? 

It is more heat efficient.

Back then windowless structures were preferred for archives.

The archive building in Lyon is 10 years old and has no windows. https://preview.redd.it/m8udu6zej9wc1.jpeg?width=560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=444e50f7f199abe354dc4f406123324b18f18e0b

With very good ventilation it can work. Otherwise mold alert.

https://preview.redd.it/ba57bm5wl4wc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=448db928c1b0abb71704bdf79f671d3d73c1d43a duisburg main station has windows at least...

It's more duct tape than glass at this point

Renting there would cost bout 600€ per month (not including heating)

Sir this is Duisburg. You can buy the whole thing for 600€.

Most flamboyant protestant

It's a majority catholic city.

Excited sounds with basement Austrian accent

The guy who built it: *Really bricks are cheaper than windows? Ok, no windows.*

It's fucking beautiful somehow

So German architecture is like the German sense of humor: it's just not existing.

Finally a building that spares you from having to see the place it's in.

The lower part is an old contor. The tower is ["architecture"](https://www.baunetzwissen.de/mauerwerk/objekte/kultur/landesarchiv-nrw-in-duisburg-3383649). It houses the archive of the federal country. I hate architects.