An exhibition called “Berlin-New York Dialogues: Building in Context” opened last week at New York’s Center for Architecture and will run through January 26 before traveling to Berlin in March.
Rather than focus narrowly on noteworthy buildings, the exhibition and related panel discussions explore issues like how Berlin is reasserting its role in European cultural and intellectual life and how New York is trying to maintain its reputation as a creative center, even as artists are priced out of neighborhoods they helped to rejuvenate.
“We didn’t really try to have one-on-one comparisons,” said Kristien Ring, the director of the German Center for Architecture in Berlin. “We tried to pick themes where one can delve into a dialogue.”
For example both cities seem to have rediscovered the potential of their waterfronts in recent years, with an array of commercial buildings and residential lofts rising near the Spree River in Berlin and architects drafting plans to enhance the East River esplanade in Manhattan.
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