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Rieder’s sculptural concrete cladding wraps Berlin office block

September 23, 2020 Dezeen staff 0
Lichtfabrik office block in Berlin is wrapped in formparts.fab 3D concrete cladding by Rieder

Dezeen promotion: materials developer Rieder has created a three-dimensional facade from tailor-made, precast concrete panels for the Lichtfabrik office block in Berlin. The office block, designed by German architecture practices Bollinger+Fehlig and Stoeckert Architects, has a distinctive facade made using Rieder’s formparts.fab cladding system. Located on Kottbusser Strasse in Berlin’s Luisenstadt district, the block was

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3XN unveils cube-shaped office block in central Berlin

September 3, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Berlin Cube office block in Washingtonplatz by 3XN

Danish architecture studio 3XN has revealed the aptly named Berlin Cube office block alongside the River Spree and the central railway station in German’s capital city. Built on Washingtonplatz in central Berlin, the standalone office block is shaped like a cube with faceted glass facades. It completes a masterplan for the area drawn up by German

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Dorte Mandrup’s Exilmuseum Berlin will facilitate “understanding of exile”

August 20, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Exilmuseum Berlin by Dorte Mandrup

Dorte Mandrup has revealed visuals of a museum in Berlin that will create a backdrop to the ruins of Anhalter Bahnhof station and tell stories of the people who fled the Nazi regime. Slated for completion in 2025, the Exilmuseum Berlin will be built on the Askanischer Platz and also spotlight present-day experiences of displacement.

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Gonzalez Haase AAS creates minimal interior for Berlin communications office

August 12, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
BAM office in Berlin designed by Gonzalez Haase AAS

Architecture studio Gonzalez Haase AAS used aluminium and translucent sheets of polycarbonate to create the few fixtures and furnishings that appear inside this sparse Berlin office. The office belongs to trendy communications agency BAM and has been designed by Gonzalez Haase AAS as a celebration of “raw materiality and geometric simplicity”. “The raw, minimalistic aesthetic

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Remi restaurant in Berlin is defined by cherry-red joinery

August 7, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Remi restaurant in Berlin designed by Ester Bruzkus Architekten

Red-stained cabinets crafted from MDF surround the open kitchen of restaurant Remi in Berlin designed by local studio Ester Bruzkus Architekten. Remi is situated near Berlin’s Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz square and is led up by Dutch chefs Lode van Zuylen and Stijn Remi. This is the second restaurant that the pair have in the German capital, joining Lode

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Kink restaurant in Berlin is dominated by a red-neon light installation

June 23, 2020 Natasha Levy 0

A tangle of red neon tubes hangs at the centre of Kink restaurant and bar in Berlin, which has been designed by owners Oliver Mansaray and Daniel Scheppan. Kink was created by Mansaray and Scheppan to blend contemporary art and gastronomy “with a touch of nonsense”. It occupies a restored industrial building in Pfefferberg, a

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Berliner Ensemble gives glimpse of its socially distanced theatre

June 4, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Berliner Ensemble socially distanced theatre

The Berliner Ensemble theatre group has removed around 500 of its 700 seats to prepare for reopening in alignment with Germany’s social-distancing policies. The Berlin-based theatre group, which operates from the 19th century Theater am Schiffbauerdamm building, shared an image of its auditorium on Twitter to give theatre-goers an idea of the experience they will

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London, New York, Paris and Milan give streets to cyclists and pedestrians

May 7, 2020 India Block 0
Coronavirus cities cyclists and pedestrians

Cities across Europe and the Americas are drawing up plans to take street space away from cars in favour of cyclists and pedestrians in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Urban spaces are being temporarily remapped to prioritise people walking and cycling while maintaining social distancing of up to two metres in major cities around the

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Opposite Office proposes converting Berlin’s Brandenburg airport into superhospital

April 1, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Berlin Brandenburg Airport Superhospital by Opposite Office

German studio Opposite Office has proposed creating a temporary Covid-19 superhospital inside Berlin’s unfinished Brandenburg airport during the coronavirus pandemic. Opposite Office founder Benedikt Hartl wrote an open letter to the German minister of health, Jens Spahn, proposing the idea to temporarily transform the unopened, 220,000-square-metre airport. He believes that the project, titled Covid-19 Superhospital

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Oscar Niemeyer apartment building in Berlin captured by Pedro Vannucchi

March 21, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Oscar Niemeyer Haus Photography by Pedro Vannucchi

These photographs by Brazilian architect Pedro Vannucchi capture an experimental apartment building Oscar Niemeyer completed in Berlin, Germany in the 1950s. Oscar Niemeyer Haus was completed in 1957 for Interbau, a social housing initiative launched after the second world war. Niemeyer was among 48 architects including Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier and Sep Ruf tasked to

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