Tag: architecture
Stuttgart State Opera: Why the renovation will cost so much – culture
Marc-Oliver Hendriks has already shown many politicians and journalists through the Stuttgart Opera. The neoclassical building made of ocher-colored sandstone is one of the most beautiful buildings in the city,…
Exhibition: Berlin urban architecture in the 1980s. – Culture
Finding Berlin ugly – not just too crude, too hip or too sloppily managed, but in many places simply optically unappealing – is neither difficult nor particularly original, but rather…
Baden-Baden, Bad Ems and Bad Kissingen are world cultural heritage – culture
At the Unesco meeting in Fuzhou, China, about new additions to the World Heritage List, no discussion was necessary when it came to the “Great Baths of Europe”. There are…
Düsseldorf Opera: renovation or new building? – Culture
Of Alexander Menden In the foyer of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, steel supports are currently ensuring that the roof of the porch does not collapse. This measure is called…
Page Three: The Jewess and the People’s Actor
The villa in which Hansi Burg and Hans Albers lived has been falling into disrepair for years. Nobody was interested in that for a long time, but now they are…
Regensburg: The Bavarian Apostle of Beauty – Bavaria
In 1883, three years before his death, King Ludwig II acquired the Falkenstein castle ruins on the border with Tyrol. There he wanted to create a romantic fairytale castle that…
Architectural History – The Apostle of Beauty – Bavaria
Open detailed view The artist Max Schultze painted the “View of Garmisch” (detail) around 1890. (Photo: Michael Preischl) In 1883, three years before his death, King Ludwig II acquired the…
Corona architecture: a pavilion made of 20,000 used masks – your SZ
Most wear them sensibly, some under their noses, others not at all: the mask is the accessory of the crisis. Joschka Kannen and Matthias Fehrenbach, two Freiburg architects, thought about…
Glossary: The cemetery as a garden paradise – culture
In the opinion of the civil engineer Horst Bellermann, who lives near Dresden and who fortunately leans towards not only static certainties but also aphoristic anarchy, the garden bed is…
Holidays in Austria: wooden houses in the Bregenz Forest – travel
Perhaps it is the most beautiful instruction that an architect can ever give: “The house should stand in the landscape without any fuss. Meadows go right up to the house.”…