Wer kennt es nicht, das bunte Treiben im Mauerpark mit der weltberühmten Karaoke-Show des Iren Joe, dem quirligen Flohmarkt, den off-road Straßenmusikanten. Und wer wollte dies nicht erhalten, zumal an einem Ort, wo Geschichte (nicht nur mit Sprühdosen) geschrieben wurde? Der Mauerpark verbindet den ehemals westlichen Wedding mit dem einst östlichen Prenzlauer Berg und so in mehrer Hinsicht zwei unterschiedliche Welten, in [...] Continue Reading…
Da schlendere ich doch so beim Sonntagsspaziergang mit meiner Weggefährtin – Sonne satt, alles nett – von der Großen Hamburger in die recht romantische Sophienstraße, als mein Blick auf eines dieser dicken Geländefahrzeuge am Wegesrand fällt, der man hie und da in Mitte gewahr wird. Am Seitenstreifen, die Parkbucht sprengend, prangt ein glänzend schwarzer Range Rover Marke Extrabreit! Ein ungewöhnlich auffälliges Exemplar.
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Guggenheim go home: BMWs urbanes Großprojekt mit der Guggenheim Stiftung, das Future Lab, sollte als Zwischen -nutzer die letzte Brache an der Spree beziehen. Aber sie hatten die Rechnung ohne den autonomen Kreuzberger gemacht, der dem Autobauer einen Strich durch ebensolche zog. Das Curvy Grundstück an der Ecke zur Schlesischen sollte die neue Heimat der Auto- und Museumsmilliardäre werden. Eine Kohlefaserstruktur war [...] Continue Reading…
“You can do it when you B&Q it” used to run a popular slogan for the UK DIY chain. At the moment it seems that BMW can’t B&Q it. Finalise the setting up of a temporary Future Lab, that is. The car maker was due to open a carbon-firbe structure housing the lab, designed by a Japanese architectural firm, on May 24 [...] Continue Reading…
Woman on stilts in front of Berlin Reichstag – foto -http://owlfliesnorth.tumblr.com/
Kiwi Blog reader – New Zealander Ms Carmel Blanchard sent us this funny foto of ……….yes what can one say other than that we have a woman/man on stilts – infront of the Berliner Dome in Berlin Mitte. [Schloßplatz, Mitte 10178 Berlin,[
She sent this picture on our www.ota-berlin.de blog website in [...] Continue Reading…
For this entry expect some shameless name-dropping, plenty of movers and shakers and a cast of comedians. The background story goes as follows: years ago I worked with a Jewish film director in London, a BBC veteran specialised in Human Rights and Holocaust documentaries. He always joked “If you want a miserable night in just put one of my films on”.
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You know the psychological game whereby your focus determines what you see and how this object of attention or desire mulitplies before your eyes. Lately I seem to notice an increasing number of little colourful ‘Fix it again Tonys’ on Torstraße or thereabouts
‘Fix it again Tony’ was the term an L. A. mechanic used for the Fiat brand when I visited the [...] Continue Reading…
As U2′s Los Angeles performed Belfast yearnings for religious and income neutral postcodes go, there are places ‘where the streets have no name’. This seems true not only in Utopia but elsewhere, too. Namely in New York City. Who doesn’t know the NYC grid, after all?!
As a student I did a bike-messenger stint in Manhattan, so tourists would frequently ask me for [...] Continue Reading…
“You have to take the rough with the smooth”, say the riffraff to the gentrified (or vice versa). And there is still a good deal of gritty realism to be spotted in Prenzlauer Berg and Mitte, at least as far as the exterior design goes. So that us middle-classes can sit with a latte and laptop and enjoy the crumbling charm of [...] Continue Reading…
I’M THE BLOODY QUEEN OF ENGLAND – now how is that for a heady statement straight from the heart of street art? A monarch might mind and lament “we are not amused” that “it has pleased Providence to place me in this station”, but at least aesthetically it’s quite a pleasing ‘tagline’ (which I saw not at London’s Victoria station but in [...] Continue Reading…
With an increasing rate of Sundays deserving of their name the funambulists or rather their tightrope-replacing counterparts, the so-called slackliners, stroll to Berlin’s green spaces to take to the trees for their horizontal abseiling, catching a ray or two along the way. While the funambulists walk tight on a rope or a wire – sky-high or higher – the slackliners are more [...] Continue Reading…
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