Herzog & de Meuron   Germany   The city of Berlin is characterized by the overlapping of layers of its history, and the different periods are clearly legible in its built fabric, still marked by the scars of World War II, the postwar, and its division into two. Because of all that

FAR frohn&rojas   Germany   Though now a euphemism by which any apartment for sale smaller than 30 square meters styles itself, the ‘loft’ refers to a type of space that appeared in the New York of Warhol and The Factory, which broke away from the hierarchical division of the h

Mensing Timofticiuc   Germany   A couple bought an old building that stood on a small plot of land in Berlin’s Heiligensee neighborhood, close to the lake of the same name. Combining artificial stone and concrete colored with anthracite pigments, the cubic volume that resulted from

MVRDV   Germany   The firm MVRDV – in collaboration with Hirschmüller Schindele Architekten – has transformed a 1997 Berlin office block into an entrance marker for the Atelier Gardens mixed campus, the site of a historic film studio built in the 1920s. The now bright

Dorte Mandrup   Germany   The remains of Anhalter Bahnhof Station are exposed thanks to the museum’s curved facade, which functions as a backdrop. The new vaulted space does not intend to rebuild the original hall, but to unveil the history of this symbol of Jewish exile…

ALAS Alarcon Linde Arquitects   Germany   This 1931 building in Berlin’s Neukölln neighborhood was a garage, an art warehouse exhibition hall, and then a locksmith shop before falling into disuse. In 2018, a group of artists and creatives acquired it to turn it into workshops and apartments

Sauerbruch Hutton   Germany   This modular office structure for the German Bundestag reacts to the monumentality of its surroundings in Berlin’s parliamentary district with great simplicity: a straight-forward H-shaped plan based on prefabrication and modularity. While the southe

Sauerbruch Hutton   Germany   Berlin metropolitan School is housed in a pair of existing Plattenbau, or prefabricated, structures from the GDR era that were erected in 1987. Three building wings form part of a block and create a generous, protected school yard. The project extend

Sauerbruch Hutton   Germany   This loft building marks a further step in the revitalization of Werkhof L57, a small compound of former military facilities that has evolved into a lively creative quarter. Haus 6 occupies a plot that is surrounded by historic buildings made of bric

Sauerbruch Hutton   Germany   The new station housing the police and fire departments for the government district of Berlin is an extension to a now free-standing 19th-century structure, located on the edge of a former goods yard close to the River Spree. To preserve the represen

Sauerbruch Hutton   Germany   The gsw headquarters is an assemblage of four new building volumes that embrace an office tower from the late 1950s. The various components of the urban cluster reflect the presence of the various stages of Berlin’s urban history. At ground level a g

AFF architekten   Germany   This bilingual (German-Russian) school was built over twenty years ago in a residential area of Karlshorst, surrounded by small-scale buildings. The enlargement planned by the Berlin firm AFF architekten connects old and new, giving continuity to the

gmp Architekten   Germany   The German firm von Gerkan, Marg und Partners (gmp) has placed first in the competition to renovate the workshop which is the oldest among the institutions falling under the Berlin State Museums: the Gipsformerei, where for over 200 years now, replic

E2A   Germany   The Heinrich Böll Foundation is closely linked to the political party Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and is committed to promoting democratic decision-making, socio-political engagement, and international understanding around the globe. The Foundation headqua

Deadline Studio   Germany   Located in Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighborhood, this is a mixed-use building, containing offices and apartments. Frizz23 is the fruit of participatory processes aimed at forming a cooperative of 32 small businesses and non-profit organizations which, thr

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Germany   Berlin’s historic Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) department store has opened phase 1 of its OMA-designed renovation. A concentric void that spans six floors features a battery of wood-clad escalators. At the base, a large retail space also serves as a

David Chipperfield Architects   Germany   The firm of the British architect David Chipperfield has finished refurbishing the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, and it will reopen to the public on 22 August 2021. One of the icons of 20th-century architecture, the museum is the only building buil

Rafael Moneo Mathias Schütte   Germany   In 2005, the Berlin city council called a competition to define the massing and set the guidelines for a block bordered by Schinkelplatz, Strasse an der Kommandantur, Niederlagstrasse, and the small square shaped by two Schinkel projects: on one hand

Max Dudler   Germany   Located in Berlin’s Schöneberg neighborhood, this new construction mends an urban fabric that has needed repairing since the 1990s, rising, as it does, beside a heretofore lone office building – the Platinum, a work of the architect Jürgen Sawade – a

David Chipperfield Architects   Germany   The masterplan for the site transforms the old Bötzow Brewery into a public destination within the city fabric. The existing buildings are refurbished and the four new ones make reference in their placement to the former ensemble. The natural topogra

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Germany   The German publishing group Axel Springer is currently shifting from print to digital media. To launch this move the company decided to call a competition to extend its Berlin headquarters with a new building that would act both as a symbol and as a

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Germany   The Madrid firm of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano has won the competition to enlarge a high-performance ice skating center in the Berlin borough of Lichtenberg. In compliance with functional and technical requirements, the new volume resembles

David Chipperfield Architects   Germany   The British firm headed by David Chipperfield will be tranforming an old industrial zone in the Berlin's Marzahn district into a residential and commercial neighborhood. The place measures 152,000 square meters and will feature 1,400 affordable renta

The Spreeinsel, or 'Spree Island', became the representative seat of power of the German Empire on its southern side, and throughout the 19th century its northern end was transformed into a privileged cultural site: the Altes Museum by Karl Friedrich

One of the first decisions taken by the new Federal Republic of Germany on June 20, 1991, after reunification, was the re-establishment of Berlin as the capital of the entire nation, which implied the relocation of all central government offices from

A Jean Nouvel work which opened in 1996 on Friedrichstrasse in Berlin, what was the first branch abroad of the iconic Galeries Lafayette of Paris could now become a large library. In spite of huge investments, Friedrichstrasse has not managed to cons

In the large-scale handbook of restoration that Berlin is, amid everything that in the period following World War II was reconstructed exactly like before and everything that on the other hand was demolished to make room for modern structures, a buil

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Berlin’s six-year, £120m fight to fix his dysfunctional, puddle-strewn gallery. The modernist maestro had carte blanche to build a great museum. The result? A breathtaking icon hopeless for displaying art. British architect David Chipperfield relives

The New York Times   Christopher F. Schuetz   After a $165 million renovation, the Neue Nationalgalerie looks like it did when it first opened in 1968. That’s exactly the point. “Carrying out such a task, in a building that leaves no place to hide, is daunting,” said David Chipperfield, the Brit

unvollendete-metropole.de   La exposición que se muestra en el Kronprinzenpalais de la capital alemana incluye las propuestas ganadoras del concurso Berlín-Brandenburgo 2070, entre las que se incluye el proyecto ‘Archipelago Lab’ de Pedro Pitarch.

The Architect's Newspaper   Jonathan Hilburg   Contemporary Swedish photography museum Fotografiska announced plans to launch its newest outpost in Berlin...

The dynamism that is associated with the use of horizontal bands in buildings, as well as with skating as a sport, is the gist of the scheme that has made Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano the winners of the competition to enlarge a high-performan

Digitalization takes command of the world, and its thinning effects are increasingly felt in architectural types that once upon a time were solid and stable. A case in point is the library, whose mission of being a container of books is steep in cris

One consequence of German reunification in 1990 was collective acceptance of memories of the 20th century through a symbolic deed: Berlin’s reinstitution as capital of the State, and the subsequent restoration of a good part of its most emblematic bu

James-Simon-Galerie, Chipperfield in Berlin

Rafael Moneo   Buildings need not be isolated, independent, autonomous objects. Nevertheless, we tend to see them as such when they are canonical works, like Greek temples, Gothic cathedrals, or Renaissance palaces, or when we think of the notion of type. Architect

Jean-Yves Jouannais   The huge hill made of Berlin debris conceals the remains of what was a Nazi military academy, denying it the grand heroic status of a monumental ruin.

The always restrained and generally judicious British architect David Chipperfield has in Berlin just completed the James Simon Gallery, which serves as a gateway into the German capital’s famous Museum Island. Embedded into one of the walls of the S

Aedes   With this first comprehensive European exhibition the Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin presents the work of Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA from Bangladesh, who received the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2016 

This is a story of one day in a miniature Berlin, the creation of humanity. Put your headphones, take a breath and dive into the symphony of the city...

On view through 17 January 2019 at the Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin is ‘Enchanting Traces: Reflections on b720 Arquitectos,’ a retrospective exhibition on the firm established in 1997 by Fermín Vázquez and Ana Bassat, working from offices in Ba

On view from 7 December to 17 January at the Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin is ‘Menis Backstage: Nature, Culture and Materiality.’ The exhibition delves into the creative processes of the Canarian practice whose architectural work is grounded upo

Prejudice associates Frank O. Gehry with bulbous shapes and buildings that do not hide their iconic natures, but actually flaunt them. However, it must not be forgotten that Gehry’s career began with a series of Californian collage houses whose pover

2016 has been an annus mirabilis for Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. The completion, in succession, of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Tate Modern extension in London, and phase one of the Feltrinelli Foundation in Milan has been followed by

The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has wrapped the six front columns of the Konzerthaus of Berlin with thousands of orange life vests salvaged from refugees arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos in their massive and often tragic attempts to r

Trained with Norman Foster and Richard Rogers, David Chipperfield soon realized that his language was not that of technological expression, but that of the pure forms of a minimalism which reinterprets the legacy of classicism in a highly personal wa

Various authors   New Architecture for Hospitals

Miriam Paeslack   Photography and the Metropolis

Werner Hegemann   Historia de la mayor ciudad de caserones de alquiler

Antonio Pizza   Milán, París, Berlín y Roma (1909-1915)

Terence Riley Barry Bergdoll   Nueva York  2001  
MoMA   - 392 Pages 

Berlín  2000  
Jovis   - 328 Pages 

Joseph Rykwert   Londres  2000  
Weidenfeld & Nicolson   - 283 Pages