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Digital House is an aluminium-clad micro home in Germany

October 8, 2023 Katie Last 0

German designers Julian Krüger and Benjamin Kemper have created Digital House, a micro home that can be built without using nails or screws and was designed to be easy to disassemble. Added to a narrow site in a forest in north Germany, Digital House was constructed from recycled aluminium and timber and can be assembled

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O’Sullivan Skoufoglou transforms Berlin bungalow with blocky extension

October 3, 2023 Katie Last 0

A band of limestone separates old and new at Fohlenweg, a house in Berlin that London studio O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects created using the walls of an existing bungalow. The three-storey family home was developed from a single-storey house on the edge of Grunewald Forest and features a pale brick exterior divided by the limestone band.

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UNStudio unveils design for stepped-terrace towers in Düsseldorf

September 11, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

Dutch firm UNStudio has revealed its design for New Heart, two high-rises that will sit at the centre of a new development in Düsseldorf, Germany, and feature staggered terraces and a bright-orange bridge. One of the towers will house residential apartments while the taller one will have workplaces, with both designed to be flexible and

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Studio Besau-Marguerre designs colour-block foyer for Hamburg’s MK&G museum

August 29, 2023 Kate Jacobs 0

German practice Studio Besau-Marguerre has overhauled the entrance hall of Hamburg’s MK&G design museum, using colours to guide visitors through the space. The brief was to create new zoning in the foyer for better wayfinding and orientation while setting the tone for the rest of the museum with a friendly and welcoming atmosphere. “We wanted

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Crosby Studios uses steel kitchen equipment to create Berlin jewellery store interior

August 17, 2023 Alice Laycock 0

A faux industrial kitchen and yellow camping furniture feature in this store in Berlin by Crosby Studios for jewellery brand Avgvst. The studio put the space together from scratch using repurposed furniture and fittings including office blinds, camping chairs and kitchen equipment. The space is situated on the ground floor of a 19th-century building and

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Dorschner Kahl and Heine Mildner arrange multi-generational housing around communal garden

August 14, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Dorschner Kahl Architects and Heine Mildner Architects have collaborated on Andreasgärten, a multi-generational housing scheme in Erfurt that integrates assisted living for the elderly with the wider community. Situated next to the fortress town of Zitadelle Petersberg in the city of Erfurt, Germany, the Andreasgärten housing development consists of a trio of three-storey rectangular buildings

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Forma is a nomadic design gallery popping up around Berlin

August 8, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Contemporary German furniture designs are displayed alongside vintage pieces at this travelling gallery that multidisciplinary designer Vanessa Heepen has launched in Berlin. Rather than having a permanent home, Forma will take over different locations across the German capital. The gallery’s inaugural exhibition, titled The Room I Walk the Line, was recently on show on the ground

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Brutalist Mäusebunker building saved from demolition in Berlin

July 18, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

The brutalist Mäusebunker laboratory has been saved from demolition in Berlin after the local authorities listed it as a historical monument. Completed in 1981, the concrete edifice had previously been under threat of destruction after becoming vacant in 2010. The news of its listing as a historical monument by the State Monuments Office was revealed

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German pavilion becomes material bank for Venice repair projects

May 26, 2023 Amy Frearson 0

Germany’s contribution to this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale is a huge store of materials recovered from last year’s art biennale, all set to find new uses around the city. Materials recovered from over 40 installations have been collected and catalogued, ready to be used for repairing and upgrading buildings and public spaces all over Venice.

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Straw Bale House is a straw-and-timber duplex in the German countryside

May 19, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Atelier Kaiser Shen has used straw bale-construction to create an interlocking semi-detached house in the village of Pfaffenhofen, Germany. Appropriately named Straw Bale House, the dwelling near Heilbronn uses the material as insulation to improve the building’s thermal performance. Clad in silver fir wood with a steeply pitched roof, the building subtly adopts both the

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