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Cells in former Berlin prison turned into guest rooms for hotel Wilmina

July 22, 2022 Ali Morris 0

Narrow guest room with small window and white interior scheme by Grüntuch Ernst Architects

German practice Grüntuch Ernst Architects has converted an abandoned women’s prison and courthouse in Berlin into a “tranquil” hotel. Called Wilmina, the hotel occupies a duo of listed 19th-century structures in Charlottenburg that had been forgotten for decades prior to their renovation. The former court, which sits at the entrance on Kantstraße, accommodates the hotel’s

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Yinka Ilori tops Berlin pavilion with colourful disc canopy

June 22, 2022 Katie Last 0

Yinka Ilori colourful pavilion at Estrel Berlin

London designer Yinka Ilori has created a colourful pavilion named Filtered Rays as an events space for the Estrel Berlin hotel in Germany. Located on the banks of the Spree alongside Estrel Berlin in the Neukölln area of the city, the pavilion is the Ilori’s latest brightly coloured public intervention following his recent skatepark in Miami

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Berlin citizens propose law to ban cars from city centre

January 28, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

View of Berlin city centre with television tower

Berlin’s centre could become the largest car-free urban area in the world following a campaign supported by 50,000 citizens. Campaign group Berlin Autofrei has proposed a law to limit private car use within the Ringbahn train line in the German capital, an area of 34 square miles. The city government will now formally consider the

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Filmmaker Nathan Eddy presents Battleship Berlin documentary

January 10, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0

Filmmaker Nathan Eddy has teamed up with Dezeen to offer readers a 10-day screening of his documentary about the brutalist Mäusebunker building in Berlin, Germany. The 40-minute film, titled Battleship Berlin, is available to watch exclusively on Dezeen, above, until 20 January 2022. Battleship Berlin sheds light on the threats currently facing the brutalist Mäusebunker,

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Balenciaga’s Berlin store features in today’s Dezeen Weekly newsletter

December 23, 2021 Kate McCusker 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features Balenciaga’s first Berlin retail space, which pays tribute to the city’s modernist architecture. Continuing the brand’s raw architecture aesthetic, the store’s monolithic concrete interior contrasts with the grade II-listed neoclassical building in which it is housed. Commenters are divided over the design, with one likening it to

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Balenciaga designs concrete Berlin store to reference the city’s modernist architecture

December 17, 2021 James Parkes 0

Fashion brand Balenciaga has opened its first retail location in Berlin, which continues the brand’s Raw Architecture aesthetic and boasts monolithic concrete slabs and distressed surfaces. Located in Charlottenberg in western Berlin within the Grade II-listed Haus Cumberland building, the store occupies 296-square-metres across the ground floor. In sharp contrast to the building’s neoclassical exterior,

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

November 17, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

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

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

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

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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