Germany

Julian Rosefeldt celebrates “anti-architecture” in new movie Manifesto

November 28, 2017 Gunseli Yalcinkaya 0

Filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt transforms German industrial landmarks into “alienated places” for his latest film, which sees actor Cate Blanchett take on 13 personas while reciting art declarations. Rosenfeldt, a German artist and former architect, first presented Manifesto in 2015 as a multi-screen gallery installation. He has now expanded the project into a film, which was shot almost exclusively in

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Frankfurt embarks on Brexit building boom with new high-rises by BIG, UNStudio and more

October 19, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Frankfurt is bidding to woo banks from London by building dozens of new high-rise towers by architects including BIG, UNStudio and Ole Scheeren. With Brexit threatening London’s status as Europe’s leading financial centre, Germany’s business capital has been promoting itself as a lifestyle destination. Shiny new towers were being marketed heavily at the Expo Real property

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Büros für Konstruktivismus turns a chicken coop in Berlin into an artist’s studio

September 25, 2017 India Block 0

Berlin-based practice Büros für Konstruktivismus has transformed a former chicken house in the back garden of a 1930s home into a pine-lined artist’s studio. The project is named Hühnerhaus, the German word for henhouse. The coop was originally constructed just after second world war in the grounds of a Berlin villa, but after its renovation the owner now uses

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Ole Scheeren plans to radically transform Frankfurt office block into Jenga-like apartment tower

September 24, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Architect Ole Scheeren has unveiled plans for his first project in Europe, which will see him completely overhaul a 1970s office block in Frankfurt to create 200 riverside homes. Having spent more than a decade focusing on Asia, the German architect is shifting his focus to his home country. He plans to completely reconfigure a

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Ole Scheeren plans to radically transform Frankfurt office block into Jenga-like apartment tower

September 24, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Architect Ole Scheeren has unveiled plans for his first project in Europe, which will see him completely overhaul a 1970s office block in Frankfurt to create 200 riverside homes. Having spent more than a decade focusing on Asia, the German architect is shifting his focus to his home country. He plans to completely reconfigure a

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This Bar In Stuttgart Has Walls Of Glass That Show Off The Wood And Copper Interior

August 10, 2017 Erin 0

Photography by Martin Baitinger / DITTEL ARCHITEKTEN GMBH   Dittel Architekten have recently completed the interior design for Eduard’s, a new bar in Stuttgart, Germany, that has glass walls allowing pedestrians to see the bright and welcoming interior.   Photography by Martin Baitinger / DITTEL ARCHITEKTEN GMBH Large doors welcome you inside where you are greeted by a couple […]

This Bar In Stuttgart Has Walls Of Glass That Show Off The Wood And Copper Interior

August 10, 2017 Erin 0

Photography by Martin Baitinger / DITTEL ARCHITEKTEN GMBH   Dittel Architekten have recently completed the interior design for Eduard’s, a new bar in Stuttgart, Germany, that has glass walls allowing pedestrians to see the bright and welcoming interior.   Photography by Martin Baitinger / DITTEL ARCHITEKTEN GMBH Large doors welcome you inside where you are greeted by a couple […]

100,000 forbidden books used to construct Parthenon replica on Nazi book-burning site

July 12, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Argentinian artist Marta Minujín has used thousands of prohibited books to construct a replica of the Parthenon in Athens on a Nazi book-burning site in Kassel, Germany. Taking a stance against censorship, Minujín designed the Parthenon of Books to echo the classical Greek temple, which remains a major icon of the democratic Athenian polis. Metal scaffolding mimics the form of the

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Max Dudler creates restaurant inside Heidelberg Castle’s sandstone-walled saddle room

June 10, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Swiss architect Max Dudler used a simple palette of cherry wood, stone and terrazzo when converting this former saddle room into a restaurant at Germany’s Heidelberg Castle. The Sattelkammer building is located close to the entrance of the ruined Renaissance castle in southwest Germany, and adjacent to a visitor centre with two-metre-deep stone walls that Dudler

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Max Dudler creates restaurant inside Heidelberg Castle’s sandstone-walled saddle room

June 10, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Swiss architect Max Dudler used a simple palette of cherry wood, stone and terrazzo when converting this former saddle room into a restaurant at Germany’s Heidelberg Castle. The Sattelkammer building is located close to the entrance of the ruined Renaissance castle in southwest Germany, and adjacent to a visitor centre with two-metre-deep stone walls that Dudler

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