Germany

Batek Architekten create gallery-like backdrop for Zalando beauty store in Berlin

August 17, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

German practice Batek Architekten combined pale surfaces with concrete and steel accents to draw customer’s attention to the products on offer in this beauty store in central Berlin. The shop is located close to the city’s busy Hackescher Markt square and is Zalando’s first bricks-and-mortar store – the brand previously sold high-street fashion, shoes and

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Berlin restaurant LA Poke takes its cues from Hockney painting A Bigger Splash

July 9, 2018 Natashah Hitti 0

The forms and colours of a David Hockney painting are referenced in this Berlin poke restaurant, designed by Ester Bruzkus Architekten to feel “as relaxed as a day at a California pool”. LA Poke, which serves Hawaiian-style Poke Bowls, is based on Hockney’s 1967 painting A Bigger Splash, which depicts a splash in the swimming pool beside

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Thomas Schütte creates log cabin on Vitra Campus

June 21, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

German artist Thomas Schütte has added a log cabin topped, with an asymmetric shingled roof, to the array of buildings on the Vitra Campus, in Weil am Rhein. The design of Schutte’s Blockhaus is based on one of 20 small-scale architectural models that the artist displayed in Düsseldorf’s Konrad Fischer gallery in 2016. The exhibition

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Le Corbusier’s interior realised by Philipp Mohr at Unité d’Habitation in Berlin

June 18, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

The interior of an apartment in Berlin’s Unité d’Habitation has been refurbished by German-American architect Philipp Mohr to Le Corbusier’s original plans. Mohr, who had been a fan of the influential architect since he attended a retrospective exhibition as a teenager in the 1980s, purchased the apartment in 2016 with the intention of refurbishing and selling it. When

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Take A Look Inside The Newly Completed Hotel Neues Tor In Germany

June 15, 2018 Erin 0

  Design firm roomcode.GmbH have recently completed the interior design for Hotel Neues Tor, located in Bad Wimpfen, a historic spa town in Germany.   The lobby of the hotel draws inspiration from the historic town, with wood and black metal accents. Nature was the inspiration in the bar and lounge area, and it has been represented through a […]

Take A Look Inside The Newly Completed Hotel Neues Tor In Germany

June 15, 2018 Erin 0

  Design firm roomcode.GmbH have recently completed the interior design for Hotel Neues Tor, located in Bad Wimpfen, a historic spa town in Germany.   The lobby of the hotel draws inspiration from the historic town, with wood and black metal accents. Nature was the inspiration in the bar and lounge area, and it has been represented through a […]

Frank Gehry’s plans for Berlin’s tallest skyscraper put on hold

May 3, 2018 India Block 0

Plans for a 150-metre-tall skyscraper in Berlin designed by Frank Gehry have been put on hold due to safety issues with subway stations below the site. Gehry Partners won a competition in 2014 to design the Hines-Hochhaus tower for international real-estate firm Hines. It was expected to become the tallest building in the German city. But

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Holzer Architekten adds black extension to 1920s house in Stuttgart

March 13, 2018 India Block 0

A sliver of glazing separates a white house in Stuttgart from this black extension Holzer Architekten designed to create additional living spaces with plentiful garden views for its owners.  The local practice was asked to renovate the the 1920s house to suit the needs of a family of five, adding the two storey annex to the southwestern

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Self-sufficient Yin & Yang house incorporates gardens on its interlocking roof

February 27, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture studio Penda has released visualisations of a house designed for a tiny plot near the German city of Kassel that show how its owners will be able to grow food on both sides of its terraced roof. The studio founded by architects Chris Precht and Dayong Sun designed Yin & Yang house for a

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Developer to remove signage from site of Nazi torture cellars following backlash

February 15, 2018 India Block 0

The developer of a luxury urban quarter in Hamburg has agreed to remove a sign designed “as a tribute to the 20s” after critics compared it to concentration-camp signage. The typographic entry sign, designed by Berlin-based agency Polyform, will be dismantled as soon as possible, developer Quantum told Dezeen. “All involved people were depressed because of the bad associations,”

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