Tag: architecture
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…
Architecture: “The demolition must come to an end” – Bavaria
From today’s perspective, the building culture that has prevailed in Germany is quite absurd. It is based on an enormous consumption of resources, the numbers speak for themselves. 40 percent…
Ukraine war: architecture offices boycott Russia – culture
The major construction freeze was not long in coming in architecture. It almost doesn’t matter who you ask, most of those who carry out projects in Russia have now put…
War in Ukraine: Architect Wolf Prix continues to build his opera in the Crimea – culture
When Wolf Prix received a call from the Ukrainian embassy a year and a half ago, the head of the Vienna-based architects’ office Coop Himmel(b)lau was given the prospect of…
Opera in Crimea – culture
When Wolf Prix received a call from the Ukrainian embassy a year and a half ago, the head of the Vienna-based architects’ office Coop Himmel(b)lau was given the prospect of…