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Mäusebunker in Berlin, Germany

Completed in 1981 for the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the structure was officially known as the Forschungseinrichtung für Experimentelle Medizin. Its purpose was highly specialized: the building housed thousands of laboratory animals—mostly mice, but also rats, rabbits, and other species—used in biomedical research. The architecture is as startling as the building’s function. Designed by German architects Gerd and Magdalena Hänska, the Mäusebunker resembles a fortified concrete fortres
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