Berlin

Jörg Ebers built a home in a small va­cant lot on Au­gust­strasse in Berlin-Mitte.

For more than fif­teen years Maike van Sti­phout and her of­fice DS land­sch­aps­ar­chi­tec­ten have been working on a wide range of land­scape com­mis­si­ons. Her port­fo­lio com­pri­ses all sca­les in both urban and rural areas. She has worked on s…

BERLIN — The Neues Mu­seum briefly re­o­pened here last weekend (was re­born, seems more like it), and local news­pa­pers re­por­ted that more than 35,000 Ber­li­ners, many of them wait­ing hours in the cold in lines stret­ching ne­arly half a mile, …

Nothing is more fa­sci­na­ting to an ar­chi­tect and urban de­si­gner than a ra­pidly gro­wing city. New buil­dings that con­ti­nu­ally trans­form the city‘s ap­pearance, the chan­ging life­style of in­ha­bi­tants, the struggle to sur­vive in the cha…

After 60 years of ne­glect, the Neues Mu­seum is »woken from its slumber«.

Berlin’s urban bu­reau­crats en­vi­sion the city as a kind of «hand-me-down Paris,« as Ni­k­las Maak, an ar­chi­tec­ture cri­tic here, …

The Ar­chi­tec­tu­ral Le­ague present the work and ideas of the world's most in­te­res­ting and in­flu­en­tial ar­chi­tects and de­si­gners to New York, na­tio­nal and in­ter­na­tio­nal au­di­en­ces, through lec­tu­res, ex­hi­bi­ti­ons, pu­bli­ca­ti­…

Sadness as Nazi-built hub that be­came a life­line for star­ving Ger­mans closes

On Tu­es­day, Oc­to­ber 28th at 7pm, Craig Dy­kers, the co-founder of the ar­chi­tec­ture and de­sign firm Snøhetta is hol­ding a lec­ture on their cur­rent works in The Great Hall, the Co­oper Union in New York. photo: Ge­rald Zug­man ­In 2004 the N…

In con­nec­tion with Fos­ter + Partners’ project to re­mo­del and ex­tend the »Städtische Ga­le­rie im Lenbachhaus«, the Len­bach­haus Mu­seum in Mu­nich is hos­ting the ex­hi­bi­tion »Foster + Part­ners: Working with history« 21. Oc­to­ber 2008 - 22…

So don’t ex­pect any ar­chi­tec­tu­ral ex­pe­ri­ments in Ber­lin, ex­cept for the Dutch Em­bassy by OMA and the Je­wish Mu­seum by Da­niel Li­bes­kind. What you will find is tidy, strai­ght­for­ward de­ve­lop­ment that re­spects the buil­ding lines. …

Small rooms with a lot of lu­xury: that’s the for­mula be­hind Ci­ti­zen M. »If you’re in town for a short stay, then you cer­tainly don’t want a big lu­xury room with all the extras«, ar­gues Je­roen Ves­ter of Ams­ter­dam de­sign firm Con­crete, ‘b…

The RIBA Na­tio­nal and In­ter­na­tio­nal Awards were an­noun­ced on June 27th. The final short­list for the £20,000 Stir­ling Prize which in­clu­des the RIBA Na­tio­nal Awar­dees will be an­noun­ced on July 17th, and the win­ner on Oc­to­ber 11, 200…

Betsky’s pre­sen­ta­tion was li­vely and per­sua­sive. His story star­ted with a phone call from Mis­ter Bar­atta. 'I’ve a pro­blem. Can you help?,' Bar­atta asked. 'Maybe, but who are you?,' an­s­we­red Betsky. Bar­atta tur­ned out to be di­rec­tor …

The jury of the 2008 UIA Gold medal de­ci­ded in April 2008 to award the medal to the Me­xi­can ar­chi­tect Teo­doro Gon­za­lez de Leon. He will re­ceive the medal at a ce­re­mony, on 2 July 2008, du­ring the twenty third UIA Con­gress in Turin. Thro…