Tag: architecture
Historical heritage threatened in Cairo – culture
Unless some influential figure in Egypt develops historical awareness and intervenes over the weekend, this text is an obituary. A requiem for 32 houseboats that are the last of their…
Canberra: Is the planned city in Australia still relevant? – style
Of Thomas Hahn, Canberra In Canberras City, the magic of the capital is gone. He was still there on Capital Hill, across Lake Burley Griffin, and not just because the…
Bavaria: Bahn wants to sell Bad Kissing station – Bavaria
“Representative station building for sale,” says the exposé of Deutsche Bahn somewhat succinctly, along with a frontal view of the entrance, photographed at a slight angle and a little out…
Art in Norway: Why the new National Museum in Oslo is unwelcoming – Culture
Of course they commissioned Iwan Baan. The Dutch architectural photographer is famous for staging the buildings he photographs with people. What was frowned upon in architectural photography for a long…
Rolling Stones concert Munich: Interview with stage designer Winkler – Munich
Ray Winkler designs stages for Lady Gaga, Abba, Elton John – and for the Rolling Stones. Why they always need it big and what the future of pop looks like.…
Residential complex in Schwabing receives architect award – Munich
The news about the residential complex at Genter Straße 13 and other houses is not very positive for residents, officials and politicians. For two and a half years, groundwater has…
Architecture Prize: Exhibition in the White Box in the Munich Werksviertel – Munich
Perhaps it is quite fitting for the award winner, the San Riemo cooperative residential building in Munich-Riem, that the exhibition for the DAM Prize 2022 was not initially shown in…
Hamburg: Germany’s oldest paternoster is being renovated – panorama
Anyone who has ridden a paternoster more than a few times probably knows that this form of up-and-down motion can expand consciousness without compromising being. However, because some authorities consider…
Europe’s largest timber structure: Sports campus of the Technical University of Munich – culture
The old Olympic motto (citius, altius, fortius) has been changed. It’s now: “Faster, higher, stronger – together”. This well-intentioned contradiction in meaning, which modernizes the politically correct motto of being…
50 years of the Olympic Games: A visit to the Munich Olydorf – Munich
At the beginning there is a paved footbridge. On one side red pipes, on the other a white wall. In the background the horizon with a blue sky and in…