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The Fagus Factory is a shoe last factory in Alfeld on the Leine in Germany, an important example of early modern architecture. Commissioned by owner Carl Benscheidt, the factory was designed by the architect Eduard Werner, with facades designed by Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer. It was constructed between 1911 and 1913, with additions and interiors completed in 1925.

The Fagus Factory is today considered as one of the most important industrial structures of modern architecture. It is considered as a blue-print of the functional design style that later became later associated with the Bauhaus. Also the concept of of the curtain wall, the glass facade that Gropius featured in his Bauhaus building in Dessau was put into practice here for the first time. Today the entire factory has been renovated and is open to the public.

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