To continue our Bauhaus 100 series exploring the key projects and figures of the influential design school, we take a look at its home in Dessau, designed by Walter Gropius to embody the school’s core principles and values. Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, in 1919, as a new kind of art school based around
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Dezeen promotion: Wulf Architekten has used Velux’s modular skylights at a research centre in western Germany, to flood its entrance and oval-shaped laboratory building with natural light. The German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases – abbreviated to DZNE – is situated in the city of Bonn. It is one of ten centres spread across Germany, where scientists
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Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has released renders of its updated plans for the Museum of the 20th Century in Berlin. The studio led by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron presented its revised designs for the art museum – set to be built alongside the Mies van der Rohe-designed Neue Nationalgalerie – to the public
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Berlin-based design studio New Tendency has updated a GDR era broadcast building to create a temporary workspace for participants enrolled in Red Bull’s music academy scheme. New Tendency updated Berlin’s Funkhaus, a former broadcasting centre for the German Democratic Republic (GDR) built in the 1950s by Bauhaus alumnus Franz Ehrlic, to host the annual Red Bull
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David Chipperfield Architects has revealed designs for a residential development in Munich, Germany, that recalls the local 19th century architecture. Set among the neoclassical buildings of the Kolbergerstrasse on the edge of Hertzog Park, the five-storey apartment block will include a two-storey penthouse, two three-storey apartments with their own gardens, and several one-storey apartments. Described
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Studio Morison has installed a multifaceted mesh-covered pavilion around a statue of Maximilian I in the centre of Munich, to raise awareness for the city’s homeless and impoverished. Named “I Will Be With You, Whatever”, the installation was designed by British artists Heather and Ivan Morison of Studio Morison and engineered by Artura Design and Engineering. The sculpture, which
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Germany’s national rail operator has announced plans to play atonal music in a Berlin station, in an attempt to deter criminal activity. According to local paper Tagesspiegel, Deutsche Bahn plans to experiment with playing music at different volumes in Hermannstrasse station, to judge its effectiveness at driving away loiterers without upsetting passengers. “Few people find it beautiful —
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German practice Batek Architekten combined pale surfaces with concrete and steel accents to draw customer’s attention to the products on offer in this beauty store in central Berlin. The shop is located close to the city’s busy Hackescher Markt square and is Zalando’s first bricks-and-mortar store – the brand previously sold high-street fashion, shoes and
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The forms and colours of a David Hockney painting are referenced in this Berlin poke restaurant, designed by Ester Bruzkus Architekten to feel “as relaxed as a day at a California pool”. LA Poke, which serves Hawaiian-style Poke Bowls, is based on Hockney’s 1967 painting A Bigger Splash, which depicts a splash in the swimming pool beside
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German artist Thomas Schütte has added a log cabin topped, with an asymmetric shingled roof, to the array of buildings on the Vitra Campus, in Weil am Rhein. The design of Schutte’s Blockhaus is based on one of 20 small-scale architectural models that the artist displayed in Düsseldorf’s Konrad Fischer gallery in 2016. The exhibition
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