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MAKE CITY

Sunday, June 7, 2015

Whilst cycling in the city of Berlin, sometimes it is so shocking to observe how badly designed the city is. New condominiums or the so called ‘contemporary buildings’ of administrations are conquering our urban environment –the terrifying constructions spread around the city show that more is on the way.
Make City is a new festival on [...]

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FORM, HEFT, MATERIAL

Friday, May 8, 2015

A lot has happened with British architect David Adjaye since our issue #14, as shown in the major retrospective Form, Heft, Material that is still on display at Munich’s Haus der Kunst until the end of the month. And if you can’t make it there in time, it is accompanied by a beautiful catalogue which [...]

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ARCH+ DISPLAYS 
NIEVES ZINES


Wednesday, April 29, 2015

In conjunction with the Gallery Weekend Berlin, ARCH+ is launching its new series of ARCH+ DISPLAYS, starting with the Vitsoe Reading Room and the zines of Swiss publisher Nieves at ARCH+ studio in KW Institute for Contemporary Art’s building complex. On the occasion of the opening on April 30, 2015, Hamburg-based artist Stefan Marx will talk [...]

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UNTIL OUR HEARTS STOP

Sunday, April 26, 2015

‘The performers are ‘freaky insiders’, forced to connect in uncomfortable, yet playful ways. Navigating between naivety and despair, they are dreamers who long for reality. In a world in which they fade away and disappear, they feel the urge to seek new forms of appearance.’
Until Our Hearts Stop is the new production by choreographer Meg [...]

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HI BYE

Monday, March 23, 2015

Why hasn’t anybody done this before? This ingenious video by Jacob T. Swinney juxtaposes the first and last shots of 55 films. More often than not, the comparisons are startling, and you wonder how many of these films were shot with their finales (and beginnings) in mind.

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METAMORPHOSE

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

The unexpected encounter with the demon Humbaba – the guard of Cedar Forest whose intestines are on his face – from the epic of Gılgamesh triggers one to think about our perception of body, the Zeitgeist and the representations in various cultures… Nowadays, the notion of body is in a vigorous metamorphose with the digitization, [...]

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Read What You Want! A Reading Club… in the Ringbahn S41.

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Read What You Want! is a hybrid between a book club and a reading club, that also focusses on the importance of space. The event is an experiment on how people inhabit spaces, both printed, as in the pages of a book, and physical, by our surroundings in the city. It is planned as an [...]

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FLOWER POWER

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Architectural insanity from MVRDV, our cover stars of issue #18: the Rotterdam-based architecture firm recently completed their first building in their home town, a giant covered market hall with a variety of high-end food stalls and regional farmers, in the shape of two residential buildings leaning towards each other in a giant sweep and fusing [...]

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CBRE URBAN PHOTOGRAPHER 2014

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

CBRE 2014 Theme this year was ‘Cities at Work’ which briefed photographers from around the world to capture the beauty and day-to-day reality of working life. The overall winner was German photographer Marius Vieth with his image ‘Masks of Society’, although the runners up entries are just as striking, see them here.

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ZAHA HADID & SLEUK RITH

Sunday, October 12, 2014

Architect Zaha Hadid recently revealed the design of the Sleuk Rith Institute in Cambodia; a center for the commemoration of the Khmer Rouge era. The new institute will not only house the vast archives but also provide educational and cultural platforms including a graduate school focusing on human rights, a library and a museum as [...]

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