Hejduk – Early Results
There have been a handful of positive developments in the continuing campaign against the blandification of John Hejduk’s tower: Firstly, BerlinHaus has updated its news page with an open letter*...
View ArticleHejduk – Petition Closed
The Hejduk Tower, yesterday at sundown [Click to enlarge] The petition to save the John Hejduk Tower from defacement is now closed, having run for two weeks. The response to our call for support has...
View ArticleSoft Opening at Choriner Höfe
I’d first heard about the Choriner Höfe by following the work of my Slab colleague Ian Warner in his inaugural article on Berlin Marketing Balls. And then one evening last November I biked past this...
View ArticleYou Guttae be Kidding
(The Pretense of Craft in Contemporary Construction, Part 1) Decosterd and Rahm have a great reference to Nietzsche and his concept of a physiological art as part of the introduction to their book...
View ArticleJan 18, 2007: Kyrill’s brief encounter takes two tonne fig leaf off central...
In a three part series commemorating the five year anniversary of Kyrill blowing I-beams out Berlin’s central station, I take three pot shots at this grotesque (meaning it’s like a Grotto, but also...
View ArticleKyrill cont’d
In the first part, I talked about a preposterous hunch developing in my head. Could there be intent behind the building’s modernist stealthiness and its Byzantine circulation? Down there in the pit on...
View ArticleKern baby, kern!
The article “Fubar Corner“, from April of this year, was one of our regular skirmishes against what we perceive to be an affront to the architectural arts, just as much as it is a contribution. Today...
View ArticleThe myth and the mob
The Mall of Berlin is 76,000 m² of new retail space built on the former site of the Wertheim department store on Leipziger Platz, which was once the largest of its kind in Europe. The Wertheim...
View ArticleCreative Mornings Lecture
On June 19th I gave this short lecture for the Berlin chapter of Creative Mornings. June’s theme was ‘Revolution’. I approached the subject by revisiting Slab’s 2010 publication The New Death Strip,...
View ArticleDiminished Mound
I recently toppled off the edge of the above ramp, built for wheelchair access to my local drug store. It was one of those anti-heroic moments, where for a fleeting moment I pictured myself caught...
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