SLAB Magazine

Recently a sign went up on the plot of land this journal has often referred to as its «favourite inner-city prairie», advertisiting the pending erection of the Fellini Residences. That was not all: some weeks earlier this correspondent happened to pass a nearby plot of land one evening, and caught sight of the grand opening [...]

Here’s a nice piece of old news which did the rounds in late May, concerning the façade of a luxury department store in Berlin, a famous brand of fashionable sports and leisurewear, and a graffiti artist.
In honor of Lacoste’s 75th birthday, KaDeWe (Berlin’s answer to Harrods) invited the fashion label to celebrate in its department [...]

At SLAB, we wouldn’t dream of claiming responsibility for excersizing even a modicum of real influence upon the outside world with mere words. But it hasn’t escaped out attention that the Choriner Höfe website we recently called «a bloated bag of unspeakable turds», has changed slightly since the publication of our critical piece on the [...]

This pile of stones is so damned satisfying, that I would have to have one too, if only I had a garden.

There’s something very touching about amateur art. Maybe it has to do with the degree of effort which goes into it, and the fact that this effort is often so distressingly visible in the final result. In this example, found on a flea market, you can see how much love and time went into the [...]

SLAB Magazine referred to it before and now it happened again. The strangely pink shopping mall at Berlin’s Alexanderplatz «Alexa» is still presented in the media (www.tagespiegel.de 18.04.2008) like this:

But the «Alexa» mall still looks like this, as I checked today:

Yes it’s pink and it’s got a completely different facade. Are the investors themselves ashamed [...]

Last week SLAB reported on the pending building developments on a plot of land between Choriner Straße and Zehdenicker Straße in Berlin’s Mitte district. The so-called Choriner Höfe are to be built here.

Choriner Höfe, so very stylish, to be built in 2008
The word «Höfe» is the plural form of «Hof», which means yard, and is [...]

Berlin’s love affair with fake sandstone bows to private interests
As uttered here a while back, Berlin’s Mitte district can be mindnumbingly predictable, but SLAB Magazine wasn’t quite prepared to see another prophecy come true as quickly as this. The beige box at Hackescher Markt number 1, soon to be home to Muji, has indeed traded [...]