Architecture, Art and Design الهندسة فن و رسم

Architecture, Art and Design
Berlin, Germany
Went to Berlin to visit the Graft
Berlin office and see the “Klee Universe” exhibition at Mies van der
Rohe’s New National Gallery. Like with any trip a lot more was added to
my program, one of the highlight being the Treptow Crematorium
(1996-98) designed by Axel Schultes and Charlotte Frank.
First visited two dental clinics by Graft architects that for sure
changes your attitude towards the usually feared dentist. Both are
upcoming arcspace features.
The Kinderdentist (childrens dentist) is designed as an underwater
experience with a 12 foot wave and patterns of pixilated schools of
fish connecting the treatment rooms.

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At the Dental clinic KU64 you are On the beach...a dune
landscape being the metaphor for an artificial landscape of undulating
folded floors reflected by a ceiling of a similar shape.

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Graft also designed the “HOTEL Q,” a continuous flow of form and
space. Here the visitor will find a narrative that departs from
conventional perceptual hotel experiences. “HOTEL Q” is a member of Design Hotels.

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The New National Gallery
has dedicated a major exhibition to Paul Klee (1879 – 1940), who taught
at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture, inviting you to embark
on a journey through the fascinating Klee Universe.
The exhibition
includes sections on interiors and architecture that looks at forms and
objects created by man, while nature appears in images of plants,
animals, and landscapes.
Comprising some 250 works it is the first comprehensive Klee
retrospective in Berlin since the exhibition of his work at the
Kronprinzenpalais 85 years ago.

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Viaducts Break Ranks
The upper hall shows Jeff Koons' glistening giant sculptures from
his famous “Celebration” series, which he has been working on since the
early 1990s and which instantly strike one as magnified children's toys
or giant gift items.

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Photo Jeff Koons 2008

On the way to the Treptow Crematorium we passed the East Side Gallery,
one of the last remains of the Berlin Wall that's still at its
historical place. With its length of 1.3 kilometers, it curves parallel
to the Spree through Berlin and tells with its pictures the story of
Berlin and Germany's history.

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The Treptow Crematorium (1996-98), designed by Axel Schultes and Charlotte Frank, is a monolithic polished concrete structure with a facade of glass and sunshades.
You enter the building via three recessed forecourts, which lead into the large central hall.

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The concrete supports rise like trees from the ground in the
central space with daylight entering through circular holes at the top,
where they break through the ceiling. The roof is supported by
cantilevered brackets at the tops of the columns. Unfortunately we
could not get into the building but had to photograph through the
windows.

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For more art the Deutsche Guggenheim
showed “Memory, 2008” by Anish Kapoor. The twenty-four-ton Cor-Ten
steel tank, defined by its volume rather than by its mass, sits tightly
within the gallery space. Its thin skin suggests a form that is
ephemeral and unmonumental, defying gravity as it gently glances
against the peripheries of the gallery walls, floors, and ceiling.

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Kapoor’s sculptures elicit a certain confrontation. As participants
rather than as mere spectators, we become hyperconscious of our own
position in space and of our own scale. We want to walk around and
under Memory’s bulging curves, but are denied this access. The
sculpture is not architecture - we are prevented from entering its
aperture/window. Descend to the floor below and you can look into its
belly through what, from a distance, looks like a black window.


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Berlin's
new "White Cube" gallery, which actually looks more blue from the
outside, sits in the city's center on the Spree River. The temporary
gallery will come down once the old Imperial Palace, just behind the
gallery, is rebuilt where the communist Palace of the Republic stood
until recently.
Unfortunately they did not select the "Art Cloud" proposal by Graft.

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"The
design of the Kunsthall is envisioned as an Art Cloud, a temporary
light structure of exhibition space, seemingly floating and resting for
a moment above the topography of soft mounds. This structure would not
be superimposed upon the previous historic site, but rather would fill
the transition from “what was” to “what will be."
Graft

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When in Berlin I never miss visiting the two Aedes galleries. The AedesLand showed
“True Cities,” a collection of photographs by Charlie Koolhaas
featuring four global cities that determine, in different ways, our
political and cultural landscapes and that will increasingly shape our
collective destinies in the future.
Koolhaas’ eclectic experiences
as sociologist, magazine editor, author and photographer, not to
mention daughter of renowned architect, are brought to bear in this
exhibition of 200 images portraying scenes from four of the world
largest urban agglomerations: Guangzhou, Dubai, Lagos and London.

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AedesPfefferberg showed “ Buildings and Speculations” by Swiss architects von Ballmoos Krucker Architekten.
For this exhibition the specific properties of the gallery space is
exploited by a 1:1 scale spatial installation. Erected on a level that
is constructed of scaffolding material is an accessible “inner form.”
This installation investigates a fictive, organic space and offers
views of the exhibition via a variety of openings. The exhibition
thereby becomes an experimental field in the architectonic sense.

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The front room shows “Ohrenstrand mobil 08,” Temporary architecture for new music.

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Architect and project developer Bernd Boetzel from Planufaktur took me up in the Bethanienturm, one of their most amazing projects.

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The “TowerVisions Bethanienturm” has already been realised in the
virtual online-world of Second Life and can be explored by a real-time
walk-through.
Bernd Boetzel also curated an exhibition of digital art at the Hans Hollein designed Austrian Embassy (arcspace feature). The exhibition, “6 Pictures in Real Life and 66 Pictures in Second Life,” is also shown at the Bethanienturm in Second Life.

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Dutch artist Rob Steenhorst in front of LoveDot
Last night in Berlin we went to the Jazzfest Neukölln to hear
Juliane Gabriel sing accompanied by cellist Kristoff Becker. Juliane
goes under the name Jaynine Scarborough in Second Life where she also
performs,

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After the performance off to Dieners, an authentically old-style
Berlin bar, named after famous local boxer Franz Diener. The walls are
adorned with faded hunting murals and photos of well-known Germans. It
was Billy Wilder’s favorite Berlin bar.

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Photo of Billy Wilder
P.S. arcspace will soon launch a new “Design” section where we will
feature the best design from around the world. First article will be
about Graft’s new flexible furniture system.

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P.P.S. Seen in the window of the six-story wooden residential building (2007).

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" Yes - it’s ugly, but it must be ugly to be integrated in the existing urban surroundings".
(Urban development in the Berlin Metropolis)
Until now, the German building laws have imposed narrow confines on
building wooden houses, this is the first six-story residential
building using a solid-wood construction method.
Stayed at The Mandala
--------------------------------------February 12, 2009من طرف مهندس بيوت سيرتاhttp://www.arcspace.com/kk_ann/aad_berlin/aad_berlin.html