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INITIAL SITUATION The construction of a new district, the “Werkbundstadt”, was originally planned on the site of a former power plant in West-Berlin. After this project failed to come to pass, several years passed before the first impetus for upgrading the area was given with the AERA office building on Berlin’s Mierendorff Island on the […]

The Sony Center, an American-sourced “ufo” designed by Murphy/ Jahn Architects and PWP Landscape Architecture, wellknown U.S. based firms that “landed” in Berlin in 2000, is a mandatory pilgrimage destination, a must-have, for any tourist. As soon a person enters, the gaze rises skyward and culminates in a membrane, stretched like the one of a […]

Located in Weimar, Germany, the renowned home of the Bauhaus movement, the competition called for a creative design solution for how an existing open space, adjacent to a recently restored UNESCO World Heritage Site can be appropriately preserved and modernised, while taking into account the urban planning and functional requirements of the site.  The adjacent […]