Baustelle Berlin

Early Schinkel

Das Molkenhaus - early Schinkel work in Bärwinkel, Brandenburg built 1802-3. Before he traveled to Italy and France and got all 'edumacated'.

Rails to Trails

Work has begun on Berlin's newest park at the former railyards of Gleisdreieck. Artful renderings - like that above by Atelier Loidl - already have us dreaming of picnics on the railbeds and cinema beneath the stars next summer.

Building the Berg

Architekt Jakob Tigges keeps the dream alive!

Youth in Rebellion

 

What's Happnen at HafenQuartier?

Nothing, apparently! Foundations were excavated and utilities coordinated but the site has been laying dormant for months, and during Berlin's busiest building season. The new park at Sellerbrücke has also been completed but units 20 - 30 are nowhere to be seen!

Green Shoots, and Leaves

Berlin's 2009 Digital Umwelt Atlas is now available for your viewing pleasure up at the Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung. The atlas provides a detailed map of the city distributed across twelve different biotypes. Here we can learn important factoids, such as 18.7% of Berlin's area is made up forests and woods or that we have over 200 hectares of moors and swamps!

Theory of Ruin Value

spent a few hours yesterday creeping around the abandoned cold war listening station atop teufelsberg. energetic vegetation overruns the remains of the western allies deepest penetration behind the iron curtain, now the playground of graffiti artists and local dopers. the site's spacious domes once sheltered the most sensitive of technological ears as they eavesdropped on enemy communications, but today the entire site is dominated by the sound of the relentless wind tearing through the industrial textiles and prefab structures as they fall to ruin.

New Park at the Sellerbrücke

Senat removes last evidence of DDR

with many thanks to the brilliant Fabian Tischer.

Berlin - schöner denn je!