As Bauhaus, the most influential design school of the 20th century, marks its 100th birthday, examples of its keep-it-simple elegance can still be found across the globe.
Bauhaus celebrated 100 years this Wednesday. We explore how the school of art is just as groundbreaking as it was a century ago, with its ideas still shaping functional design today.
With Europe still in shock after the dramatic collapse of a motorway bridge in Genoa on Tuesday, experts have warned that some road bridges in Germany are also in “dangerous” condition.
One of Germany's most prominent architects and urban planners of the post-war period, Albert Speer Jr., has died aged 83, local media reported on Sunday.
Troubled to see a long queue of asylum seekers shivering for hours on a winter's day outside Berlin's notoriously chaotic registration centre, Van Bo Le-Mentzel decided to take action.
The boom in luxury apartment blocks on the banks of the river Spree in east Berlin divide opinion. Now two new high rises and a hotel have been given the green light.
Part pop-up, part up-cycling, this new brewery in the German capital is using some of the city's most distinct traits of reuse and re-purposing to create something new.
Three German sites are up for inclusion in the prestigious UNESCO list of world heritage sites as the organization's committee meets in Bonn to consider the nominees.
German architect Frei Otto was named publicly as winner of the prestigious Pritzker Prize on Tuesday, a day after his death at the age of 89, organizers of architecture's top honor said.
It took him 17 years, but after dealing with rare bats and a slew of court cases, the man who designed a bridge deemed so ugly by Unesco that it stripped Dresden of its world heritage status, finally saw it open this week.
One man's dream to start building a full-size medieval town using only authentic historical tools and techniques came true over the weekend as he embarked on a 40-year project of a lifetime.
Berlin Wednesday kicks off the reconstruction of its palace, a divisive €590 million project to recreate the baroque architectural jewel whose post-war remnants were razed by communist leaders.
In the latest instalment of My German Career, The Local spoke with Costa Rican architect Roberto Ovalle about mastering the language, and how German bureaucracy can be both a blessing and a hindrance in the building world.
An award-winning German architect was attacked by opposition activists in Bangladesh during protests over the weekend that left two people dead and dozens injured, the German embassy in Dhaka said Monday.
Hamburg city is suing the firm building its landmark new concert hall for going tens of millions of euros over-budget and being at least four years late.
Germany’s tallest structure – the <i>Fernsehturm</i> in central Berlin – is to be renovated over the coming months to make it more attractive to visitors – and better able to cope with growing crowds.
An advocacy group for German train passengers said on Wednesday the controversial plans to revamp Stuttgart’s main station could still be aborted in light of continuing protests against the mammoth rail project.
Around 20,000 people marched in silence through Stuttgart on Friday evening to protest the controversial Stuttgart 21 construction project – and promised to come back every day.
Opponents of the controversial revamp of Stuttgart's main train station said Friday they hoped at least 20,000 people would take part in a protest later in the day.
The state government of Baden-Württemberg is accused of having paid more than €100 million under questionable circumstances to Deutsche Bahn in order to save the controversial transport project Stuttgart 21.
Around 20,000 people demonstrated against the tearing down of Stuttgart’s central train station on Friday evening, forming a human chain around the building before marching to the city hall to protest.
Controversial demolition work on Stuttgart’s historic train station started on Friday, as up to 10,000 demonstrators were expected to take part in protests later in the day.
