Germany

Rundzwei Architekten wraps Berlin house in natural cork

February 8, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Cork Screw House by Rundzwei Architekten

Cork Screw House, designed by Rundzwei Architekten in Berlin, has a facade and roof made from a bottle manufacturer’s waste cork. The rectangular-shaped panels of cork provide a thermally efficient skin for the house, while also creating a bold, “monolithic” aesthetic. Rundzwei Architekten’s decision to use the material was result of its search for a material that had

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Final design of MVRDV’s KoolKiel complex will be determined by the community

January 29, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
KoolKiel by MVRDV in Kiel, Germany

MVRDV has released visuals of KoolKiel, a mixed-use complex in Kiel, Germany, which will have its final form determined in consultation with the community. The commission winning proposal by MVRDV for the post-industrial site at tip of the Kiel Fjord will be adapted as the design is finalised. There are range of eventual options with additional balconies, varied

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Aluminium defines interiors of Rimowa’s Berlin outpost

January 10, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Interiors of Rimowa's Berlin store, designed by Universal Design Studio

Universal Design Studio has introduced shiny metal surfaces throughout Rimowa’s inaugural Berlin store reflecting the premium luggage brand’s material palette. The Rimowa store is set inside a listed period building along renowned Berlin shopping boulevard Kurfürstendamm, and has been almost entirely decked out in aluminium – the material used by the brand to form its signature

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The Green Miracle is a Berlin flat featuring colour-block cabinetry and an indoor swing

November 25, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Sage-green storage closets and a swing seat are among the quirky details in this renovated 19th-century apartment in Berlin, designed by local studio Club Marginal Architekten. The Green Miracle is located in the city’s buzzing Schöneberg district, in a residential block built in 1899. The 90-square-metre flat had been an empty shell for years, but has

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Berlin’s Bauhaus-Archiv designed by Walter Gropius for “a vivid encounter with the Bauhaus”

November 21, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

The Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin is next in our Bauhaus 100 series, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the influential school. Featuring a distinctive sawtooth roof, the gallery and archive was envisioned by Walter Gropius but not completed until after his death. The building, which has the full name Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung, holds a collection of of archival material from the school.

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Walter Gropius designed school in Dessau to reflect the Bauhaus values

November 5, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

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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Wulf Architekten brightens German disease research centre with Velux skylights

October 30, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

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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Herzog & de Meuron unveils revised design for Museum of the 20th Century in Berlin

October 19, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

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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New Tendency overhauls East German radio centre to create Red Bull music studios

October 17, 2018 Trudie Carter 0

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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