Galeria closes branches: life is not a department store
Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof plans to close 52 of its 129 department stores by the end of January 2024. Can something...
town planning
“Spitting” floor tiles in Colombia: A nightmare for pedestrians in Bogotá
It rains a lot in Bogotá and the municipal guidelines for building materials have many gaps. The floor slabs have...
Urban development in Cologne: the list of antics is long
In Cologne, a long-awaited museum project has been delayed again. Once again it shows how there is a permanent crisis...
Public in-between spaces: praise of the in-between state
The public space and its appropriation. The "Atlas of in-between living" and subjective cartographies in the Historical Museum in Frankfurt....
Private transport in Germany: car-friendly is unfair
For the Germans, a love of the automobile seems to be written into their DNA. And politics governs on autopilot...
Hype about Smart Cities: The city is not a computer
The Smart City inspires the imagination of tech companies, industry is growing. But the idea of a fully automated city...
New Museum in Potsdam: Contradictory City
The Minsk, a museum for art from the GDR, has opened in Potsdam. Finally an appreciation of East Modernism or...
Prefab East as an art object: Projection surface slab
The architecture in the GDR was ambivalent. Platte is not considered beautiful, but it was promising in the GDR and...
Evictions due to fire safety deficiencies: eviction without warning
In Duisburg-Hochfeld, a cultural center is fighting against structural racism and forced evictions. They hit a lot of Rom*nja in...
Obituary for the architect Lucien Kroll: disarming modernity
Belgian architect Lucien Kroll has died. His participatory and ecological building concepts are more up-to-date today than ever before. La...
Life between vacancies and prefabricated buildings: a city full of holes
Halle-Neustadt was built as the largest planned city in the GDR. Today the poorer ones keep to themselves in the...
