FEATURED A new light on past splendour9/27/2016Following the lavish restoration of a villa in Berlin’s Grunewald district, building technology by Gira is now providing comfort and safety.
ARCHITECTURE Weissenhof on the Spree9/27/2016Mathildenhöhe, Weissenhof, Hansaviertel: Experimental housing estates have a real tradition in Germany. One that WerkbundStadt is destined to continue.
FEATURED Intelligent sun protection9/27/2016Colt International is demonstrating the advances made in solar photovoltaic systems at the Merck Innovation Center in Darmstadt with a louver-based shading system and dye-sensitized solar cells.
FEATURED A lake house as an artistic synthesis9/19/2016Project A01’s futuristic-looking house by the lake features an impressive sculptural roof and spacious glazing with sliding windows by Sky-Frame.
FEATURED Lasting success9/19/2016Mosa is considered a specialist in the production of ceramics that can be applied to both horizontal and vertical surfaces. The Dutch company combines design and material efficiency in its tiles.
ARCHITECTURE Where changes are lived9/9/2016Right at the top of the parking garage at Berlin’s “Neukölln Arcaden”, for some years now the “Klunkerkranich” has happily existed in its very own urban biotope. A local meeting point, and not just for hipsters.
ARCHITECTURE Sow multistory carparks, harvest traffic9/9/2016Multistory carparks are the storage medium of the automobile age. Here, traffic comes to a planned halt.
ARCHITECTURE City landscape with car terrace9/6/2016Photographer Constantin Meyer’s new exhibition at Cologne’s Design Post is called “Parklandschaften”. Yet his images show places that aren’t especially idyllic: German multi-story car parks.
ARCHITECTURE Chemnitz showpiece 9/6/2016For a long time, the old railway station hall in Chemnitz was nothing more than a relic of East Germany. Now Grüntuch Ernst Architekten have transformed it into a pleasant, open and covered urban space.
ARCHITECTURE Completely carefree8/9/2016Shopping malls are playing an every greater role in the architectural typology of commerce. An exhibition in Munich presents examples from all over the world.
ARCHITECTURE Apolda Anchorage8/8/2016Out on Modernism’s top deck: The young Egon Eiermann skillfully advanced the basic structure of a factory building in Thuringia. All that was lacking – a user for the restored icon.
ARCHITECTURE In the dunes of Fire Island8/8/2016Horace Gifford never made a secret of his homosexuality. He loved life on the beach and he loved some of his clients. His life is closely linked with the liberalization of homosexuality in the second half of the 20th century.
ARCHITECTURE When the future began to glow7/29/2016Karl Hugo Schmölz is among the most important post-War German architecture photographers. But was forgotten for many years. Now a digital photobook places his elegant images on our screens.
ARCHITECTURE Pyramid or just a bunker?7/28/2016With the Switch House, the Tate Modern recently opened its long-cherished extension on the South Bank of the Thames. So what exactly have Herzog & de Meuron built?
ARCHITECTURE The draughtsman’s contract7/26/2016An exhibition in Berlin offers you an unadulterated view of the urban scenery in some Japanese anime films.
ARCHITECTURE Berlin Particle Theory7/24/2016Roger Bundschuh dissects a house into three parts. To create any number of views outwards and inwards.
ARCHITECTURE Architecture and possibility7/19/2016Was the “Endless House” the original model for architecture without properties? The Museum für angewandte Kunst in Vienna is devoting an exhibition called “Life Visions” to the visionary Frederick Kiesler.
ARCHITECTURE Space capsules are passé7/18/2016When the cities learnt to walk in superstructures – people stayed where they were, left to their own devices. Is this why yesterday’s future visions and utopias are suddenly back en vogue in architecture?
ARCHITECTURE Higher stakes7/18/2016Not only has Constant’s archive been unpacked in The Hague: the show at the Gemeentemuseum also considers the future of a “New Babylon”.
ARCHITECTURE One huge nightmare7/18/2016Superstudio was consciously radical and critiqued progress. Barbara-Brigitte Mak and Ludwig Engel talked with Gabriele Mastrigli, curator of the jubilee exhibition, about the group’s legacy and importance today.
ARCHITECTURE Superarchitettura7/18/201650 years ago, one of the most influential and radical architecture groups of the 1970s was founded in Florence: Superstudio. Rome’s Maxxi Museum celebrates the anniversary with a big retrospective.
ARCHITECTURE Tradition creates future7/12/2016Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) is showcasing Studio Mumbai in a major exhibition in Frankfurt/Main, in which it demonstrates how contemporary construction can be a successful symbiosis of Indian tradition and Western Modernism.
ARCHITECTURE The barkeeper and the penguin7/11/2016Fast-growing Frankfurt/Main now has an unusual governing coalition of Conservatives, Social Democrats and Greens. A look at the coalition’s policies on urban design and the city reveals: sadly no vision.
ARCHITECTURE A perfect bachelor 7/3/2016Sometimes the history of architecture is full of irony. The same is true of Charles Moore’s house in New Haven, which featured in “Playboy” in 1969.
ARCHITECTURE Modernism with the wrong rendering 6/24/2016Taking five buildings by Mies van der Rohe as examples, an exhibition in Heerlen demonstrates how successful good refurbishment in line with the original can be.
FEATURED The right tone6/20/2016Kjaer og Richter opted for underground exhibition zones and a new build boasting oscillating Petersen Tegl bricks as the annex to the CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark.
ARCHITECTURE The Glass Bottom Secret6/16/2016Paul Rudolph’s New York penthouse has lots of levels. Even today, architectural history is divided on the true significance of the building in which Rudolph lived with his partner Ernst Wagner.
ARCHITECTURE Siza celebrates with everyone6/14/2016Almost 40 years after construction work started, a subsidized public housing project by Álvaro Siza is being continued in Venice. A superb exhibition turns it into the Portuguese country exhibition at this year’s Architecture Biennale – and shows us that sometimes the front runs right past our front foors.
