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BRAND SPACE

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

I fell over this architecture project and hurt myself.

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EARLY YEARS

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Contemporary art is having its moment in Poland these days. Museums get built, and new public as well as private institutions emerge. Artists’ names become common knowledge, their practice—previously ignored or misinterpreted—is widely understood and accepted today. It speaks for itself that the most central tract of land in the Polish capital will soon [...]

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WORLD OF GIVING

Saturday, November 28, 2009

This is ostensibly the season of giving, so it is worth mentioning Jeffrey Inaba’s new book World of Giving, dedicated to exploring this cornerstone of human sociality. An architect and professor, Inaba researched, edited, and wrote the book with C-Lab, an ‘experimental research unit’ he directs, as an extension of their current Donor Hall [...]

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LESSONS IN MAGAZINES #01: APARTAMENTO

Thursday, November 19, 2009

With all the talk about the end of print during this past year, let us make one observation: print is not dying, it’s simply shifting – in fact, independent magazines are flourishing. Look no further than Spain, with a recent flurry of excellent publications (curiously, all designed by the fantastic Folch Studio) such as Metal, [...]

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THE BRILLIANCE OF BUILDINGS

Monday, September 28, 2009

The documentary film VISUAL ACOUSTICS by new director Eric Bricker celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the famous American architectural photographer. Shulman, who passed away this year, captured the work of nearly every major modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner, and Frank Gehry. The [...]

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Platoon vs. Good Morning Vietnam

Friday, September 25, 2009

Local competition: Platoon vs. Good Morning Vietnam. Not only within one movie genre, but also geographic. Since October 2007 a Vietnamese restaurant and the transitory container office of a think tank face each other at the corner of Alte Schönhauser and Lininestraße in Berlin-Mitte. Purpose? Do Berry Levinson and Oliver Stone know about it?

Platoon, Alte [...]

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BERLIN PUBLISHING WEEKEND #05

Friday, September 4, 2009

In tune with this weekend’s foray into publishing and design, our friends at the excellent Pro QM bookstore have invited Swiss–American (there it is again…) designer Zak Kyes for a conversation with Matthew Evans about graphic design and ‘other forms of publicity’. Kyes has become something of a shooting star in the British design scene [...]

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CASTLE IN THE AIR

Friday, September 4, 2009

Also missing your old tree house? Get the ‘grown-up’ version from baumraum – specialized in the planning and realization of tree houses and other constructions in natural surroundings: ‘A promise of adventure for the kids, a retreat for the adults, a romantic hideaway close to nature. These special little dwellings installed up among the trees [...]

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