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Studio Aisslinger transforms historic Berlin art squat into Fotografiska Berlin

March 20, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

A former department store that became a famous artists’ squat is now home to Fotografiska Berlin, a photography museum featuring interior design by German designer Werner Aisslinger. Once the second-largest shopping arcade in Berlin, the building is best known as the Kunsthaus Tacheles, home of the Tacheles artist collective, who occupied it from 1990 to

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Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke design modular study pavilion for German university

March 14, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Berlin-based architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke have created a modular and demountable steel-framed pavilion for the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany. Located centrally within the campus at a junction of existing pathways, the 1,000-square-metre gridded structure was designed to create flexible and non-hierarchical spaces for students to learn, study and socialise in a

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PSLab’s monochromatic Berlin showroom is a “sacred place for light”

January 15, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

A pared-back palette of raw materials creates a calm backdrop for PSLab’s lighting products inside the brand’s Berlin workshop and showroom space, designed in collaboration with Belgian firm B-bis architecten. The newly opened studio occupies the ground floor and basement of a 1907 residential building in the city’s Charlottenburg district. PSLab, which designs and manufactures

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MVRDV completes yellow office retrofit with zigzagging outdoor staircase

December 1, 2023 Kate Donaldson 0

Dutch studio MVRDV has unveiled Haus 1, a bright yellow workplace adapted from a 1990s office building in Berlin with local studio Hirschmüller Schindele Architekten. Located south of Tempelhof Field, it is the second project completed for Atelier Gardens – the redevelopment of a 23,800-metre-square film and media campus into a hub for social entrepreneurship

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Grzywinski+Pons designs Locke at East Side Gallery to “capture the strange magic” of Berlin

November 7, 2023 Rupert Bickersteth 0

Glass screen doors, bespoke furniture and natural textures draw on the waterside location of Locke at East Side Gallery hotel in Berlin by architecture studio Grzywinski+Pons. Located in the inner-city Friedrichshain district, Locke at East Side Gallery contains 176 studio apartments equipped with kitchenettes and living areas, for short stay through to longer tenancies as

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Office ParkScheerbarth adds bright red-timber building to compact Berlin site

October 24, 2023 Katie Last 0

Bright red curving forms and cubic volumes form Haus 2+, a mixed-use building that architecture studio Office ParkScheerbarth has added to a compact riverside site in Berlin. Located in Holzmarkt 25, a former lumber port that has been developed into a cultural district, the building features a timber structure and bright red-painted larch cladding that

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The Hoxton Charlottenburg draws on Berlin’s brutalist and art nouveau architecture

October 18, 2023 Kate Jacobs 0

The Hoxton hotel has opened its first German outpost in Berlin’s Charlottenburg, with interiors designed to blend the contrasting architectural styles that rub shoulders in the affluent neighbourhood. Located just off the Kurfürstendamm shopping street in West Berlin, the 234-room hotel was styled on a cross between the area’s Jugendstil mansion blocks and the comparatively

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O’Sullivan Skoufoglou transforms Berlin bungalow with blocky extension

October 3, 2023 Katie Last 0

A band of limestone separates old and new at Fohlenweg, a house in Berlin that London studio O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects created using the walls of an existing bungalow. The three-storey family home was developed from a single-storey house on the edge of Grunewald Forest and features a pale brick exterior divided by the limestone band.

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Crosby Studios uses steel kitchen equipment to create Berlin jewellery store interior

August 17, 2023 Alice Laycock 0

A faux industrial kitchen and yellow camping furniture feature in this store in Berlin by Crosby Studios for jewellery brand Avgvst. The studio put the space together from scratch using repurposed furniture and fittings including office blinds, camping chairs and kitchen equipment. The space is situated on the ground floor of a 19th-century building and

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Forma is a nomadic design gallery popping up around Berlin

August 8, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Contemporary German furniture designs are displayed alongside vintage pieces at this travelling gallery that multidisciplinary designer Vanessa Heepen has launched in Berlin. Rather than having a permanent home, Forma will take over different locations across the German capital. The gallery’s inaugural exhibition, titled The Room I Walk the Line, was recently on show on the ground

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