SLAB Magazine

One could accuse us of lazy journalism, but we haven’t needed to travel far to bring SLAB-worthy stories over the last few weeks. Everything’s right on our doorstep at the moment, including the developments currently taking place in our local inner-city jungle situated on a piece of bombed-out land stretching between Chorinerstraße and Zehdenicker Straße.

Bird’s-eye-view [...]

Last November I reported on the goings-on at my favourite inner-city prairie on Neue Grünstraße. What I hadn’t realised at the time, was that the actions and interventions here were part of a ongoing art project financed by Bipolar, whose graphic identity I’ve had the pleasure of designing.
On Friday I dropped by the site [...]

MTF was kind enough to comment on this article, written with more enthusiasm for a pessimistic gag at the expense of Berliner cooky-cutter sandstone boxes, than for solid research.
He posted a link to some renderings of the building destined to rise up out of the Spreedreieck hole: and it’s really rather good.

Slippery when wet
The pert [...]

A new hole in Berlin
With the sale of the so-called Spreedreieck plot of land in front of Berlin’s Friedrichstaße station, another piece of Berlin history has been wiped clean off the face of the earth. The Tränenpalast (Palace of Tears) which stood here until a month or so ago, was an important inner-city border checkpoint [...]

This via the BBC:
A Chinese woman remains defiant after a court deadline for her to allow the demolition of her house expired… Ms Wu was the only one of 281 families in the area who rejected an offer of a new house or financial compensation to move from the site in Chongqing in 2004.
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The tiny plot of land on the corner of Mulack and Gormann Street in Berlin’s Mitte district is about to be blurbanised by Hoyer, Schindele, Hirschmüller + Partner, an office responsible for many of Berlin’s recent, more interesting building projects. The Case Study House 8 at Gormannstraße 8/9 is an ambitious looking angular construction which [...]