Karl-Marx-Hof: The Longest Building In The World?

Karl-Marx-Hof: The Longest Building In The World?

AROUND THE WORLD
AROUND THE WORLD
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In the 1920s, as America started to go dizzy for skyscrapers, the Vienna city council built an enormous apartment block. But instead of going a long way up, they went a long way along - more than 1km long, in fact. Why did they build it? And is it the longest building in the world? I went to Heiligenstadt to find some answers.