50 Shades of Industrial Green: Berlin Apartment Renovation by Christopher Sitzler-Brakel.In Berlin's lively Kreuzberg neighbourhood, this apartment renovation by Christopher Sitzler-Brakel is a brilliant example of thoughtful urban renewal and adaptive reuse done right. The result is the architectural equivalent of your cool...
Collaborative Experiment: Deglan Studios’ Own Home in Berlin.Back in 2019, Deglan Studios undertook their first collaborative experiment together, their own home in Berlin. The project became the creative studios very own “corona renovation” as Domenic Degner and Falko Landernberger worked on it...
A Neighbourhood Lobby: Denizen House in Berlin by Modiste Studio.Located in Berlin’s Kreuzberg, Denizen House is a 475-square-metre co-working space operated by the eponymous start-up. Modiste Studio’s design brief was to provide a flexible space that serves as the “lobby for the neighbourhood”...
Harnessing Materiality & Light: LES Berlin by RHO.Designed to be a highly flexible event location, LES Berlin is the kind of space that lies dormant until it is called upon. Lonely and stark, a series of hard surfaces build up the bones of three distinct areas—canteen, bar and event...
Foam Fascination: Softy by Simon Stanislawski.In Europe alone, 30 million mattresses are disposed of every year—60 percent are landfilled, the rest is burnt. In his latest collection, Softy, Simon Stanislawski experiments with foam as a material for furniture, playing with the...
Liminal Space: East Side Gallery Berlin Hotel by Grzywinski+Pons.A new hotel has opened at the heart of the East Side Gallery memorial in Berlin’s Friedrichshain neighbourhood. Honouring the place's history, Grzywinski+Pons conceived the hotel and its multipurpose public domain as a liminal space—a...
From Food Waste to Textiles: Peelsphere by Youyang Song.Designed to tackle the wide-spread food waste problem, Peelsphere is a truly circular material made from discarded fruit and algae. Designed by Berlin based textile Youyang Song, the 100% biodegradable material offers a new alternative to...
Ester Bruzkus Architekten Design a Berlin Bank as a Community Living Room.A bank isn’t the first thing you would expect to see with a cutting edge new design. You’d more likely be expect it to be closing down—like that one down the road from you. Yet Ester Bruzkus Architekten have done just that,...
Studio Ford Celebrates Legendary Women of Bauhaus with Hand-Blocked Textiles.Los Angeles-based textile atelier Studio Ford has released Interwoven, a collection designed as a dedication to the often overlooked women of the Bauhaus movement. Much like the weaving patterns of the Bauhaus, each piece is geometric and...