Berlin

Cells in former Berlin prison turned into guest rooms for hotel Wilmina

July 22, 2022 Ali Morris 0

Narrow guest room with small window and white interior scheme by Grüntuch Ernst Architects

German practice Grüntuch Ernst Architects has converted an abandoned women’s prison and courthouse in Berlin into a “tranquil” hotel. Called Wilmina, the hotel occupies a duo of listed 19th-century structures in Charlottenburg that had been forgotten for decades prior to their renovation. The former court, which sits at the entrance on Kantstraße, accommodates the hotel’s

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Yinka Ilori tops Berlin pavilion with colourful disc canopy

June 22, 2022 Katie Last 0

Yinka Ilori colourful pavilion at Estrel Berlin

London designer Yinka Ilori has created a colourful pavilion named Filtered Rays as an events space for the Estrel Berlin hotel in Germany. Located on the banks of the Spree alongside Estrel Berlin in the Neukölln area of the city, the pavilion is the Ilori’s latest brightly coloured public intervention following his recent skatepark in Miami

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Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum is a “foreboding experience”

May 20, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Continuing our series on deconstructivism we look at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, one of the architect Daniel Libeskind’s first completed projects. The zigzagging, titanium-zinc-clad building was the winner of an anonymous competition held in 1988 for an extension to the original Jewish Museum, which had occupied an 18th-century courthouse since 1933. Libeskind responded to the

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Batek Architekten renovates historic cinema in pastel and earth-coloured hues

March 23, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0

Pastel-coloured arches in Berlin cinema foyer

German studio Batek Architekten has refurbished Yorck Kino Passage, one of the oldest cinemas in Berlin, adding a foyer bar with pistachio-coloured arches and covering its screening rooms in saturated colours. The local studio wanted the renovation to pay respect to the original neoclassical style of the 1908 cinema, while still giving it a contemporary

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Twelve Berlin architecture studios photographed by Marc Goodwin

February 23, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0

British photographer Marc Goodwin has gone behind the scenes at 12 architecture studios in Berlin including Barkow Leibinger and Sauerbruch Hutton for the latest in his photography series exploring where architects work. Goodwin, who is the founder of studio Archmospheres, has documented architecture studios in cities across the world including Istanbul, Shanghai and São Paulo.

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Gisbert Pöppler designs Berlin apartment like a “tailor-made suit”

February 8, 2022 Natasha Levy 0

Walls clad in teak, red-lacquered wood and limestone in interior of Berlin apartment The Village designed by Gisbert Pöppler

Architecture and interior design studio Gisbert Pöppler has overhauled an apartment in the heart of Berlin, adding a number of one-off furnishings and custom fixtures to suit the clients’ needs. The apartment, which was renovated from top to bottom, occupies a glass pavilion on the roof of a 1930s residential building in the borough of

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Berlin citizens propose law to ban cars from city centre

January 28, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

View of Berlin city centre with television tower

Berlin’s centre could become the largest car-free urban area in the world following a campaign supported by 50,000 citizens. Campaign group Berlin Autofrei has proposed a law to limit private car use within the Ringbahn train line in the German capital, an area of 34 square miles. The city government will now formally consider the

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Filmmaker Nathan Eddy presents Battleship Berlin documentary

January 10, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0

Filmmaker Nathan Eddy has teamed up with Dezeen to offer readers a 10-day screening of his documentary about the brutalist Mäusebunker building in Berlin, Germany. The 40-minute film, titled Battleship Berlin, is available to watch exclusively on Dezeen, above, until 20 January 2022. Battleship Berlin sheds light on the threats currently facing the brutalist Mäusebunker,

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Balenciaga’s Berlin store features in today’s Dezeen Weekly newsletter

December 23, 2021 Kate McCusker 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features Balenciaga’s first Berlin retail space, which pays tribute to the city’s modernist architecture. Continuing the brand’s raw architecture aesthetic, the store’s monolithic concrete interior contrasts with the grade II-listed neoclassical building in which it is housed. Commenters are divided over the design, with one likening it to

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Balenciaga designs concrete Berlin store to reference the city’s modernist architecture

December 17, 2021 James Parkes 0

Fashion brand Balenciaga has opened its first retail location in Berlin, which continues the brand’s Raw Architecture aesthetic and boasts monolithic concrete slabs and distressed surfaces. Located in Charlottenberg in western Berlin within the Grade II-listed Haus Cumberland building, the store occupies 296-square-metres across the ground floor. In sharp contrast to the building’s neoclassical exterior,

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