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Challenging Steps, by Inez Margaux Spaargaren.This March, I moved to Berlin. The city intrigued me for a longer time already, and an opportunity came up to live there for a month. I grabbed this opportunity and looked into whether living in Berlin would be an option for me.…View →
A Day of Change, by Jonas Althuis.Berlin. , 1989 / Raphaël Thiémard. Mia awoke in a cold sweat. A bad dream, she thought to herself, struggling to remember its contents. She felt a cold breeze on her skin, coming in through her open bedroom window. It was still dark outside.…View →
Abandoned Buildings, by Inez Margaux Spaargaren.Beelitz-Heinstätten hospital, near Berlin, Germany. The history behind the Beelitz-Heilstätten hospital, 48 kilometres southwest of Berlin, is as scary as it looks.…View →
Abandoned Lounge, by Christopher Clarkson.In the basement of a World War II bunker beneath Berlin's abandoned airport, Tempelhof, a modest wooden chair stands stark in the yellow fluorescence of a single tube overhead. Most of the time, the chair waits quietly in a dustless darkness.…View →
What's Your Problem?, by Sam Eadington.Take this snippet from the ‘Practice’ description on the website of one such architecture office in Berlin: “All Life is problem-solving“ – Karl Popper’s famous dictum provides insight not only into our method of approaching architecture, but also into…View →
Space syntax as urban design tool, by Jack Pilkington.Berlin in 1940, before the wall (left) and in in 1989, with the wall separating east and west (right). Another interesting historical analysis to consider is the effect of the Berlin Wall on the city network of Berlin.…View →
Emotional Space, by Aimee Baars.Jewish Museum, Berlin: It truly captures the horrors of the Holocaust. 8. Mosque of Beyşehir, Beyşehir: It seemed heroic, resisting all the years and still standing 'strong'. 9.…View →
Some of My Problems, by Tuomas Peippo.Taking the self-description from the website of an anonymous Berlin office as an example, the author makes it clear how insubstantial these kind of statements usually are.…View →