AstroTurf Gemütlichkeit #006
You didn’t think this series was just going to fade away did you? You know, now that we’ve been schmoozing it up with the cream of Germany’s architectural avant-hard, and keep on being mentioned by serious media outlets? No way. We keepin’ it real. Keepin’ it tuned to the goofy shit …
Restaurant Sini offers “delicious water pipes in an oriental atmosphere”, and is also “gemütlich, comfortable, quiet, relaxing and fascinating”. Almost as long as this list of adjectives is their sensational strip of ’Stro™, which has to be the longest in the city. I defy anyone to install a lengthier piece in front of their restaurant without resorting to calling it ‘art’.
Interesting to note that Gemütlichkeit is fully compatible with an oriental atmosphere. But I expect oriental Gemütlichkeit has more to do with red cushions and a haze of grape flavoured tobacco smoke, and not some band of dirty fake grass.
“Avant-hard” ???
Yes, indeed.
Update… As of yesterday at 17h (24.03.10) there’s a fresh new strip of turf on the NE corner of Gneisenaustr. and Zossener Str.; Found in front of a Sport Bar, naturally… : )
I think that dump is right under the the Fernsehturm, or the death-ray-emitter-of-world-peace, as I used to like to call it.