Tag Berlin, Germany

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.

06-07-2020

Exhibition at Aedes Architecture Forum: Arctic Nordic Alpine – In Dialogue With Landscape. Snøhetta

July 4 through August 20 Berlin’s Aedes Architecture Forum hosts the exhibition Arctic Nordic Alpine, focusing on architecture in vulnerable landscapes. A number of pioneering projects by Snøhetta, such as the Hotel Svart at the foot of the Svartisen glacier, the Arctic World Archive Visitor Centre on Svalbard Island, Under restaurant in Lindesnes and the recent Tungestølen shelter in Luster, offer examples of how architecture can make an active contribution to mitigation of the effects of climate change and promote more sustainable ways of using nature by implementing solutions in dialogue with landscape.

16-06-2020

Exhibition Katharina Grosse. It Wasn’t Us in Berlin

The German artist Katharina Grosse is renowned for her multi-dimensional pictorial worlds where bright colours sweep across walls, ceilings, objects, and even entire buildings and landscapes. She has now transformed the Historic Hall of Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, and the outdoor space behind the building, into an expansive painting which radically destabilises the architecture of this contemporary museum space.

18-02-2020

Exhibition of projects submitted for the DAM Preis 2020 won by David Chipperfield Architects’ James Simon Galerie

Starting on 31 January 2020, Frankfurt’s DAM Deutsches Architekturmuseum hosts an exhibition about the projects entered for the DAM Preis 2020, a competition for the best architecture in Germany held since 2007. The winning project in 2020 is the James Simon Galerie in Berlin, designed by David Chipperfield Architects.

21-11-2019

Tchoban Voss Architekten designs new office building in Berlin

A new project by the Berlin-based firm Tchoban Voss Architekten was recently completed. An office building on the corner between Greifswalder Straße and Heinrich-Roller-Straße, in the Prenzlauer Berg neighbourhood (Pankow district), one of the areas in Berlin that underwent major transformations after the fall of the Wall in 1989.