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Discoveries

ZEITLOS – BERLIN wants to share features from around the world and the web, which mesmerised us.

In einer rhythmisch  gegliederten Fassade mit Fenstern und Balkonen auf hellem Verputz, präsentiert sich das sechsstöckige Appartementhaus Kaiserdamm 25... 

It`s a feeling like being moved to a gone time when walking along Ocean Drive in Miami. The road next to Miami Beach is part of the second largest Art Deco District in the world...

Hugo Junkers can be described as an extremely versatile pioneer. As entrepreneur, engineer, researcher, professor and creator of the first all-metal airplane in history he was closely working together with artists and intellectuals - for example with Marcel Breuer and the Bauhaus in Dessau...

Far from the world's great population centres and from the European and American cities where 20th Century design evolved lays a small city that is unique...

Already from a distance the golden lettering on the white tiles on the facade above the shop windows can be seen. The Chocolate Factory Erich Hamann appears like an aesthetic delight in Brandenburgische Straße 17 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf…

Soho House Berlin is a private members’ club with 40 bedrooms and 20 apartments and set over eight floors of a restored Bauhaus building in the Mitte district, in Torstraße 1...

Berlin has a great architectural heritage from the first half of the 20th Century. However, many of the architects who significantly have helped shape the cityscape were persecuted by the Nazis and have been forgotten...

In 1955 an advertisement read as followed: “The prestigious ECO-House at Kurfürstendamm is with its seven floors belongs one of most impressive more recently built building in the west of Berlin." Not only from the outside does the building reveal a moving history but also the inside of the house is equally impressive...

Anyone driving through Schmargendorf along Hohenzollerndamm, even if he still has such a hurry, can see the tower; an unusual cut, solid, strong from reddish-blue stones. It is one of the landmarks of Schmargendorf - the tower of the Cross Church...

One of the most influential office and business buildings of the whole post-war West Berlin is the one drawn by architect Paul Schwebes. The house is called the Hardenberg House and is situated in district of Charlottenburg...

In the movie “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” Holly Golightly, played by Audrey Hepburn, wore a Collier from the jewelry designer Miriam Haskell. Pieces like this and other similar precious items from American, as well as European producers are being sold in Kirsten Pax’s legendary store “Glanzstücke”...

House-high palm trees line the main street of Asmara, as if a town from the Italian Riviera have been added on the African plateau. Asmara is close to heaven: At nearly 2,400 meters above sea level it is located in the East African highlands.
Asmara, the capital of this tiny East African state of Eritrea is Africa's secret capital of modernism. More than 400 buildings in the Art Deco, Futurism, Rationalism and functionalism were left by the Italian colonial power here. Through non-compliance and lack of money, almost all has been preserved and so Asmara has become a museum of modern architecture...

The address already stands for itself: Nürnberger Straße 50-55. In the twenties and thirties everybody in Berlin wanted to dance in the famous ballroom "Femina", which offered desk phones and even had a hydraulic roof that enabled "a party under the open sky". Today the Ellington Hotel Berlin is located in the "House Nuremberg"...

The Schminke House, built from 1932 to 1933 by architect Hans Scharoun for the manufacturers familiy Schminke in the small Saxon town Lobau is one of Germany's most important architectural creations between the world wars and attracts annually thousands of visitors from around the world...

In Europe it`s all about football again. The 14th European Football Championship is in full swing and will be held in Poland and Ukraine. While in Danzig a new football stadium was built (the PGE Arena Gdansk), no less interesting architectural highlights can be found in the 20 km distant city Gdynia....

When in 2003 the Bauhaus architecture of Tel Aviv was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the inhabitants of the city reacted with surprise. The “White City”, as it is also called, designed and built by Jewish architects from the Bauhaus School Weimar in Germany immigrated to Israel, has only in recent years regained its symbolic significance. But Tel Aviv has a lot more to offer than just Bauhaus...

Built in 1925-30, Bruno Taut’s "Hufeisensiedlung" is probably the most outstanding example of innovative German town planning. The estate in the south of Berlin enjoys international renown as a milestone of social building reforms and modern urban housing policy. Since 31st of May 2012, a combination of café and exhibition to the Horseshoe Estate has opened...

Most people wouldn`t even pay attention when passing by the residential area between Heerstraße and Nennhauser Damm in Berlin...

The air-line distance between Taipei and Berlin is 8962.165 km. When it comes to design the distance between the two cities is much smaller. 1989 there was a Bauhaus exhibition at the Fine Arts Museum in Taipei. "For many people in Taiwan, the German school of design known as 
"Bauhaus " seem as foreign as Chinese Opera is 
to Eskimos," was the motto of the newspaper "Taiwan Today". What`s going on today in terms of design and culture?

Our colleague Aboli Lion is reporting from Taipei. Read more…

Towards the end of the economic crisis 1929-33, Bucharest became one of the centers in South-Eastern Europe, where an avant-garde, architectural stylistic change happened. Within a short period of time Bucharest benefitted from the prolific circumstances of a rapidly growing economy and the city experienced a change of identity due to a new architectural image. This new image was characterized by the purity of the form and the typical expression of the new materials involved at that time, such as steel, concrete and glass.