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Hejduk
Berlin is a place of architectural experimentation, of unique and sometimes fantastic experiments that have no counterparts in other cities. Some of the first gems of Modernist and Expressionist...
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L-40, Berlin
The other day, the scaffolding came down from one of the most awaited construction projects in Berlin this year, at least by me; the L-40 at the end of Linienstraße, on the corner of Rosa Luxemburg...
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Brunnenstrasse, Berlin, by Arno Brandlhuber
In Brunnenstrasse, Mitte, a very interesting building has been completed by architect Arno Brandlhuber. This is perhaps the antithesis of the L-40, where the L-40 is carried through with a minimum of...
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Book excerpt: Instant ruins at Tempelhof
The following is an excerpt from Berlin- matter of memory Tempelhof has a short but dynamic history. The airport has symbolized several distinctly different things to Berlin, changing radically every...
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Stealth architecture
I walked by this interesting and charming residential building in northern Berlin the other day. It turns out it was designed by Brandt und Simon Architekten, who incidentally also designed my local...
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Book excerpt II- The voids of the Berlin Wall
Today, it is 21 years since the Berlin Wall came down. Here is another book excerpt from the book Berlin- matter of memory on the Wall and the voids that replaced it. A draft for this text was...
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Don Juan in the suburbs
The Vietnamese constitute a large minority group in Berlin, presumably the largest after the Turkish. This year marks twenty years since the reunification of Germany, but it also marks twenty years...
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Book excerpt III- The Berg of Tempelhof
image from http://www.the-berg.de The following is an excerpt from the book Berlin-matter of memory Once in a while, the vision for a structure becomes so engrained in the collective mind that its...
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Berlin- matter of memory
There was a short review of Berlin-matter of memory in the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet by Aron Aspenström today. The review is however not available online.
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