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Deadline designs Berlin “Baugruppen” co-operative for cultural commercial space

November 17, 2021 Jon Astbury 0
Frizz23 Deadline Architects

German practice Deadline Architects has completed a co-working space for arts, education and the creative industries in Berlin. Frizz23 is based on the Baugruppe, or “building group” model, built on land won in Berlin’s first concept-based land sale procedure. The Baugruppe model, a form of self-organized collective housing, has recently seen renewed interest in Berlin.

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OMA adds wood-clad escalators to KaDeWe department store in Berlin

October 27, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
KaDeWe escalators from below

Architecture studio OMA has revealed images of the first completed part of its renovation of Berlin department store KaDeWe, a retail and event space connected by wood-clad escalators. OMA designed the spaces as part of its renovation of the Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe), the second-largest department store in Europe after London’s Harrods. As part of the

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Curved concrete walls snake through Berlin artist’s residence by Philipp von Matt

August 6, 2021 Ali Morris 0
O12 residence by Philipp von Matt

German architect Philipp von Matt has incorporated a skylit studio and a ground floor exhibition space into this artist’s home in Berlin. Located in the city’s central Mitte district, the O12 house belongs to a French artist and is described by Von Matt as “a hybrid of artwork and architecture that responds to the critical

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Olson Kundig completes Noah’s ark-informed children’s museum in Berlin

July 19, 2021 Jon Astbury 0
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A doughnut-shaped timber “ark” filled with animal sculptures sits at the centre of the recently opened ANOHA children’s museum at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Architecture studio Olson Kundig designed the museum, which is an addition to the Daniel Libeskind-designed Jewish Museum Berlin, to be a space for “discovery, exploration and play”. Set opposite the existing museum’s building, ANOHA

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Batek Architekten transforms Berlin arthouse cinema with saturated colours and neon lights

May 11, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
Blue neon detailing in Berlin cinema

Local studio Batek Architekten has refurbished the historic Blauer Stern cinema in Berlin’s Pankow neigbourhood, using neon lights that reference the original mouldings in its foyer. Batek Architekten opened up the foyer of the historic building, which has stood in Pankow in north Berlin since 1870, by removing a glass and steel structure that separated it

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David Chipperfield completes “surgical” overhaul of Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie

April 29, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0
A steel and glass museum by Mies van der Rohe

The renovation of the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany, has been completed by British practice David Chipperfield Architects. David Chipperfield Architects’ overhaul, which began in 2012, involved refurbishing the building’s ageing concrete structure and steel, glass exterior while modernising its services. The studio’s intervention, which it described as “surgical”, preserves

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Flughafen Tegel book bids farewell to Berlin’s brutalist “drive-in airport”

April 15, 2021 Jennifer Hahn 0
Airport terminal from Berlin Tegel photo book by Robert Rieger and Felix Brüggemann

Photographers Robert Rieger and Felix Brüggemann have released a book that pays homage to the recently closed Tegel airport and captures its distinctive hexagonal terminal that once served as a bastion of freedom for walled-in West Berlin. Called Flughafen Tegel, the book contains a series of photographs captured during the coronavirus lockdown in 2020 before the airport

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Batek Architekten uses stacked volumes to create Berlin duplex townhouse

February 26, 2021 James Parkes 0

Local studio Batek Architekten used stacked cubes to design RHE42, a four-storey Berlin townhouse that looks to repurpose unused space in the city. Located in Mitte, a borough in central Berlin, RHE42 is a 190 square-metre design that contains two apartments and was built against a large fire wall within a typical Berlin courtyard. Berlin

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Warm hues and central oven define Sofi bakery in Berlin

February 10, 2021 Ali Morris 0
Counter and bread shelf of Sofi bakery in Berlin by Mathias Mentze, Alexander Vedel Ottenstein and Dreimeta

The layout of this craft bakery in Berlin, designed by Danish architects Mathias Mentze and Alexander Vedel Ottenstein, revolves around an open kitchen that showcases the beauty of the bread-making process. Located in the courtyard of a restored brick factory in the city’s Scheunenviertel quarter, Sofi is a craft bakery that makes bread and cakes

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David Chipperfield Architects’ renovation of Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie unveiled

December 28, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie

The first images of the renovation of the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-designed Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin by David Chipperfield Architects have been revealed. Neue Nationalgalerie released the images shortly after the scaffolding surrounding the building was removed following an extensive, five-year renovation of the museum by David Chipperfield Architects. The images show the restored glass-walled main

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