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Crosby Studios uses steel kitchen equipment to create Berlin jewellery store interior

August 17, 2023 Alice Laycock 0

A faux industrial kitchen and yellow camping furniture feature in this store in Berlin by Crosby Studios for jewellery brand Avgvst. The studio put the space together from scratch using repurposed furniture and fittings including office blinds, camping chairs and kitchen equipment. The space is situated on the ground floor of a 19th-century building and

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Dorschner Kahl and Heine Mildner arrange multi-generational housing around communal garden

August 14, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

German studios Dorschner Kahl Architects and Heine Mildner Architects have collaborated on Andreasgärten, a multi-generational housing scheme in Erfurt that integrates assisted living for the elderly with the wider community. Situated next to the fortress town of Zitadelle Petersberg in the city of Erfurt, Germany, the Andreasgärten housing development consists of a trio of three-storey

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Forma is a nomadic design gallery popping up around Berlin

August 8, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Contemporary German furniture designs are displayed alongside vintage pieces at this travelling gallery that multidisciplinary designer Vanessa Heepen has launched in Berlin. Rather than having a permanent home, Forma will take over different locations across the German capital. The gallery’s inaugural exhibition, titled The Room I Walk the Line, was recently on show on the ground

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Brutalist Mäusebunker building saved from demolition in Berlin

July 18, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

The brutalist Mäusebunker laboratory has been saved from demolition in Berlin after the local authorities listed it as a historical monument. Completed in 1981, the concrete edifice had previously been under threat of destruction after becoming vacant in 2010. The news of its listing as a historical monument by the State Monuments Office was revealed

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German pavilion becomes material bank for Venice repair projects

May 26, 2023 Amy Frearson 0

Germany’s contribution to this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale is a huge store of materials recovered from last year’s art biennale, all set to find new uses around the city. Materials recovered from over 40 installations have been collected and catalogued, ready to be used for repairing and upgrading buildings and public spaces all over Venice.

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Straw Bale House is a straw-and-timber duplex in the German countryside

May 19, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Atelier Kaiser Shen has used straw bale-construction to create an interlocking semi-detached house in the village of Pfaffenhofen, Germany. Appropriately named Straw Bale House, the dwelling near Heilbronn uses the material as insulation to improve the building’s thermal performance. Clad in silver fir wood with a steeply pitched roof, the building subtly adopts both the

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Wulf Architekten creates “strong, yet elegant” police station in Bavaria

April 7, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Berlin-based studio Wulf Architekten has unveiled a dark-blue police station wrapped in bands of brass windows in the Bavarian city of Passau, Germany. Arranged around two courtyards, Wulf Architekten designed the building to have a clear identity as a modern police station. “The core concept was to achieve a building with a clear, strong, yet elegant design, whose appearance would not

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MVRDV designs German AI hub to be “visible in satellite photos”

April 4, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

Dutch studio MVRDV has released visuals of the Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence, a circular masterplan for a technology and innovation hub in Heilbronn, Germany. The 265,000 square-metre Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (Ipai) campus is hoped to become a global landmark dedicated to the development of “ethically responsible” artificial intelligence (AI). MVRDV’s proposal is characterised by its

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Appels Architekten prefabricates black house in rural Bavaria

April 2, 2023 Dezeen staff 0

Zurich studio Appels Architekten has created the Wooden House by the Lake, a home in southeast Germany with a cross-laminated timber structure and black-stained cladding. Comprising boxy volumes topped with a staggered single-pitched roof, the mass-timber house was entirely prefabricated before being assembled on the forested site close to a lake in Bavaria. Aiming to

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Henn and TU Dresden complete world’s first carbon concrete building

February 21, 2023 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

German architecture firm Henn and the Technical University of Dresden have completed the world’s first building made of carbon concrete – a form of concrete reinforced with carbon fibre instead of steel. Called the Cube, the 243-square-metre building was constructed as a test of the new material and will provide a laboratory and event space

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