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'Wood’s Up' surveys the impact of timber architecture at the Aedes Architecture Forum

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Berlin’s Aedes Architecture Forum has launched its latest exhibition, Wood’s Up! , a survey of 16 recent timber building designs that stand as examples for the use of the material and its future capacity to be used as a solution at mass scale in various typologies.

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UP! Berlin by JASPER ARCHITECTS | Office buildings

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The competition task was to present a concept to turn this massive squared building block of 80m x 80m into usable office space for the digital era. The old department store was originally conceived as an introverted building without openings to the outside. The dimensions of the UP!

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Francis Kéré named 2022 Pritzker Prize winner

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"His cultural sensitivity not only delivers social and environmental justice, but guides his entire process, in the awareness that it is the path towards the legitimacy of a building in a community. He knows, from within, that architecture is not about the object but the objective; not the product, but the process.".

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Pears Jewish Campus – The Blue House, Berlin by Tchoban Voss Architekten

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Adjacent to the site of the Chabad Lubavitch Family and Cultural Centre in Berlin's Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district, the community centre Pears Jewish Campus Berlin is a facility for children and young people consisting of a school, a crèche, and a kindergarten. The building also has a dining room and a kosher kitchen.

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UP! BERLIN by Jasper Architects

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Berlin: Transforming Berlin's Old Shopping Mall Into A Transparent Mixed-Use Office Building. In 2016 JASPER ARCHITECTS won the competition organized by Signa, Austria’s largest privately owned real estate company, for an over-all redesign of the Building of the former "Centrum Warenhaus" of the GDR built in 1979.

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Nuremberg plans to convert monumental Nazi-era relic into a concert venue

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DW is reporting that the infamous Nuremberg Congress Hall building, which is part of Hitler’s planned Nazi party rally grounds complex , will serve as the new temporary home of the Nuremberg State Theater following a city council decision Wednesday.

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Sigurd Larsen refurbishes 19th-century farm for Michelberger hotel

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Having already worked on the refurbishment of the Michelberger hotel in Berlin in collaboration with Jonathan Tuckey, Larsen was tasked with replacing a ruin on the site to the west of Berlin with a new building. A cut-out for a fireplace has been made at the base of this tower, where it is surrounded by a raised seating area.

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