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Filmmaker Nathan Eddy presents Battleship Berlin documentary

January 10, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0
Exterior of Mäusebunker

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
Balenciaga's Berlin store

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
Concrete Balenciaga store in Berlin

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
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 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 from the

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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 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 Mies

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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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