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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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Saint Laurent stages menswear show at Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie

June 15, 2023 James Parkes 0

Fashion house Saint Laurent presented its Spring Summer 2024 menswear collection at the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-designed Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, which was recently overhauled by David Chipperfield Architects. The Saint Laurent show took place on 12 June in the stone-clad exhibition hall of the Neue Nationalgalerie. The museum, which is located in the

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Irina Kromayer designs Château Royal hotel to feel “authentic” rather than retro

January 24, 2023 Alyn Griffiths 0

Interior architect Irina Kromayer has overseen the design of Berlin’s Château Royal hotel, creating a series of eclectic spaces that reference the heyday of the German capital at the turn of the 20th century. The 93-room Château Royal is located in the heart of Mitte, on a street parallel to Unter den Linden boulevard and close

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Coordination merges Berlin attic apartments to create artsy penthouse

December 16, 2022 Natasha Levy 0

Design studio Coordination has combined two attic apartments into a single penthouse in Berlin, crafting its interiors around the owner’s art collection. The formerly separate attic apartments were added to the 19th-century residential building in the 1990s. By bringing them together, Coordination created a spacious penthouse of 131 square metres, with a floorplan that is

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Herzog & de Meuron’s Museum of the 20th Century is an “environmental disgrace” say critics

November 30, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

Environmentalists and architecture critics have raised concerns about the carbon footprint of a major new museum for modern art designed by Herzog & de Meuron, which is under construction in Berlin. Due to its complex air conditioning system, the Museum of the 20th Century will use four times as much energy as a nearby museum

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Axel Arigato rejects “McDonald’s approach” to interiors with Berlin flagship store

November 25, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

Travertine displays that double as DJ podiums feature alongside glistening butter-yellow columns in Axel Arigato’s Berlin outpost, which the streetwear label has designed together with longtime collaborator Halleroed. The brand’s flagship boutique is set in the central Scheunenviertel neighbourhood, across the ground floor of a prefabricated concrete Plattenbau building typical of post-war East Germany. Stockholm design

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Berlin set to build car-free housing and technology district on former Tegel Airport

August 3, 2022 Alice Finney 0
An aerial view of a rendering of Projekt Tegel

Construction is set to begin on the redevelopment of Berlin’s former Tegel Airport into a technological research hub, residential district and nature reserve in the northwest of the city. Named Berlin TXL – the Urban Tech Republic (Berlin TXL), the development will include a research park, landscaped area and Schumacher Quartier – a car-free residential

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Cells in former Berlin prison turned into guest rooms for hotel Wilmina

July 22, 2022 Ali Morris 0
Narrow guest room with small window and white interior scheme by Grüntuch Ernst Architects

German practice Grüntuch Ernst Architects has converted an abandoned women’s prison and courthouse in Berlin into a “tranquil” hotel. Called Wilmina, the hotel occupies a duo of listed 19th-century structures in Charlottenburg that had been forgotten for decades prior to their renovation. The former court, which sits at the entrance on Kantstraße, accommodates the hotel’s

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Yinka Ilori tops Berlin pavilion with colourful disc canopy

June 22, 2022 Katie Last 0
Yinka Ilori colourful pavilion at Estrel Berlin

London designer Yinka Ilori has created a colourful pavilion named Filtered Rays as an events space for the Estrel Berlin hotel in Germany. Located on the banks of the Spree alongside Estrel Berlin in the Neukölln area of the city, the pavilion is the Ilori’s latest brightly coloured public intervention following his recent skatepark in Miami

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Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum is a “foreboding experience”

May 20, 2022 Jon Astbury 0
Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum

Continuing our series on deconstructivism we look at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, one of the architect Daniel Libeskind’s first completed projects. The zigzagging, titanium-zinc-clad building was the winner of an anonymous competition held in 1988 for an extension to the original Jewish Museum, which had occupied an 18th-century courthouse since 1933. Libeskind responded to the

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