SLAB Magazine

Editor currently travelling. Articles pending.

Waking up this morning, it occured to me that my bed looks like nearly all contemporary architecture. Need a wild idea for that upcoming stadium project in Dubai or that contemporary art gallery in Lucerne? Check out my duvet first. My commission fee? I’d be willing to settle for just 3% of the construction costs.

Another urban animal, this time seen in Budapest last October. This beautiful neon sign hangs outside an impressive antique bookshop on (do correct me if I’m wrong) Üllöi út.

Just wanted to freeze-frame the cloud of «20 words we’re overusing» to be found on the right. With a little punctuation, it currently (Sun. 25th November, 19:44) reads like poetry:
Berlin: building city.
Little German architecture back;
might urban work part interesting.
Probably first place street,
around good name year.
Next please!

Thanks to ExBerliner magazine for the favourable mention on page 3 of their current edition. Available in kiosks across Berlin now for 2 E’s.

ExBerliner Website

Due to vast amounts of ‘real’ work, SLAB will be article-thin for the comming weeks. Mid October could see some new posts on old news.

SLAB editor currently on holiday. Do peruse our vast achives in the meantime.

Proposterous posterior
It’s a curious thing, that whilst Chipperfield Architects’ design for the new entrance building of Berlin’s Museum Island is coming under heavy fire from an increasingly vocal opposition, just 1km away the construction of an almost criminally brutal design for a shopping and leisure complex has been allowed to loom into existance without a [...]