Tag Berlin, Germany

16-03-2021

HGEsch exhibition: House and Horizon - Transformations at the Aedes Architecture Forum, Berlin

From March 20 to May 13, 2021, in Berlin, the Aedes Architecture Forum opens its doors to the public, providing an opportunity to explore the transformation of urban spaces through the work of famous photographer and filmmaker HGEsch. Transformation is, indeed, a recurring theme in HGEsch's research work. The main subjects of the new exhibition are the former headquarters of the Osram company in Munich, designed by architect Walter Henn, and the large-format panoramic images of a number of important global metropolises including Doha, Dubai, New York, Beijing and, of course, Berlin.

19-01-2021

Kawahara Krause Architects Equivocal exhibition at Architektur Galerie Berlin

Until February 17 Architektur Galerie Berlin hosts an exhibition about the work of Kawahara Krause Architects, founded in Hamburg in 2009 by architects Tatsuya Kawahara and Ellen Kristina Krause. The exhibition illustrates the studio’s design philosophy in a series of working models and a site-specific installation made out of paper ribbons.

25-12-2020

Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin visible in its revamped charm

Berliners have been gifted a lovely end-of-year surprise. The Neue Nationalgalerie, first designed by Mies van der Rohe, is slated to reopen to the general public in August 2021 after years of restoration work by David Chipperfield Architects, and the swathes of fabric protecting this icon of modern architecture have finally been removed.

04-11-2020

Opening of BER, Berlin’s new airport by gmp

Berlin’s new Brandenburg Airport (BER) was built to the designs of renowned German architecture firm gmp. At the time coined “Europe’s most modern airport”, it opened on 31 October 2020 with a delay of almost ten years.

19-10-2020

Magenta Moon, an interactive installation by flora&faunavisions in Berlin

Magenta Moon - Discover digital innovations! This is the tagline that Deutsche Telekom is using to invite visitors to the Magenta Moon Campus Berlin. Lighting artist Leigh Sachwitz and her team from flora&faunavisions have transformed unused business premises into a physical place to experience digitisation - an experience that is, of course, also possible remotely via the web.

11-09-2020

Berlin, the famous Berghain club morphs into an art gallery

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed our lives profoundly, and music venues have suffered more than most from the prevention measures put in place. One of the most famous of these - Berlin’s Berghain Technoclub - has been closed for six months. To keep afloat, it has now been converted indefinitely into a modern art gallery and is hosting the exhibition called Studio Berlin.

08-09-2020

Adrian Streich Città Analoga Exhibition Architektur Galerie Berlin

September 3 marked the inauguration of an exhibition by Zurich architect Adrian Streich at Berlin’s Architektur Galerie. Inspired by Italian architect Aldo Rossi’s “Città Analoga”, meaning “The analogous city”, the exhibition creates an imaginary place in the Architektur Galerie on Karl-Marx-Allee, made up of four projects by four different architect inspiring debate on the design of contemporary urban spaces.

14-07-2020

GRAFT completes Charlie Living in Berlin

Charlie Living by GRAFT is the largest predominantly residential new build project in Friedrichstadt, in direct proximity to what used to be Checkpoint Charlie. This is an open set of four new buildings standing in one of the last empty spaces along the former strip of the Berlin Wall, in Berlin Mitte.

08-07-2020

Exhibition - MVRDV Haus Berlin

In Berlin, where it all began, the Dutch architecture studio MVRDV presents its German work in an exhibition designed specifically for the Architektur Galerie Berlin, MVRDV Haus Berlin. Partly conceived as a “working office”, the exhibition gives some insight into the past and present German projects of the studio founded in 1992 by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries.