Tag: architecture
Favorites of the week: recommendations from the SZ editorial team – culture
Love film art in the drive version: “The old monkey fear” Around the turn of the millennium, when German cinema was finally declared brain dead because it almost exclusively produced…
Escapism: The villa in thoughts
The topic of holidays will not be unencumbered this summer either. In the short term, however, you can easily dream away from the screen – a plea for screen traveling.…
Munich: Katharina Lechner binds books for special occasions – Munich
For Katharina Lechner, every working day begins with a descent. She lives under the roof of an old building without a lift and works in a basement room in the…
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…