Tag: architecture
Saudi Arabia: How brutal the leadership is replanning the city of Jeddah – Politics
Jeddah, the port city on the Red Sea, is to become a glittering metropolis – that’s what Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wants. Excavators are already tearing down entire districts,…
Favorites of the week – recommendations from the SZ editorial team – culture
Constant grumbling and futuristic architecture: Salzburg exhibition “… everything is incorporated here: Whether it’s Trakl’s ‘beautiful city’ or the Mozartkugel, everything is incorporated”. Hardly anyone hated the city of Salzburg…
Architecture: Pritzker Prize goes to Francis Kéré
architecture Pritzker Prize goes to Francis Kéré Francis Kéré is the first Pritzker Prize winner to come from an African country. Photo: picture alliance / dpa © dpa-infocom GmbH The…
Pritzker Prize 2022: Interview with Francis Kéré – Culture
Interviewed by Laura Weissmuller The Pritzker Prize, the most important architecture prize in the world, goes to this year Francis Kere. The architect, who was born in a village in…
Nuremberg: Operninterim changes the former Nazi building massively – Bavaria
The debate about the Nuremberg opera interim focuses on three questions: Where exactly should the performance venue go, inside or outside the ex-NS hall? Should this cultural building only be…
New Architectural Guide to Sub-Saharan Africa – Culture
An architectural guide to Africa – this must be a joke or a presumptuous colonial project from the mid-19th century. Pressing the building culture of this unmissable, bubbling continent between…
Pritzker Prize 2022 for Francis Kéré – Opinion
At some point, Diébédo Francis Kéré, 56, watched the film after all. During his lectures, young people kept pointing out to him that what he designed looked “as if it…
Justice confirms the indictment of Gérard Depardieu for “rape” and “sexual assault”
The Paris Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday, the actor being the subject of a complaint for facts dating from August 2018. The Paris Court of Appeal confirmed on Thursday…
1972, the year that remains: How the Olympic Games shaped Munich – culture
For a child growing up in the 1970s, Munich was a city with two faces. Abstract categories such as “tradition” and “modernity” were of course not yet relevant, but on…
Protest against the Ukraine war: 6,500 Russian architects demand the end of culture
More than 6500 Russian architects, designers and urban planners have one open letter signed against the invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine and called for the immediate end of the…