Berlin

Someone is trying to tell you something

In Berlin, Communication, Graffiti, Language, Screens on 21 November 2007 with 1 comment

Someone is trying to tell you something: written on the city.
Language in Common posts snippets of conversation found on urban screens. Is most graffiti in English? I remember riding around Berlin and seeing a disproportionate amount of graffiti written in English. Maybe English looks better scrawled across a brick wall and German looks better in [...]

Capturing Berlin, in fashion photographs

In Berlin, Fashion, Photography on 19 November 2007 with 1 comment

Like Look at Me in Moscow, Stil in Berlin captures young, neon-clad Berliners dressed for a night out in Kreuzberg [map, wiki, official]. They’ve got a Flickr page, too, full of many other great photographs of nightlife in Berlin.

Event: “Berlin-New York Dialogues: Building in Context”

In Architecture, Berlin, Events, New York, Planning on 16 November 2007 with no comments

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 [...]

The Times-Online guide to nightlife in six so-called “party cities.” No mention of Chattanooga.

In Amsterdam, Belgrade, Berlin, Livability, Milan, New York, Paris, The Netherlands on 31 October 2007 with 1 comment

Spending the night in Milan, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Belgrade, or New York? The Times-Online offers you a guide to the nightlife in six so-called “party cities.” Belgrade’s inclusion intrigues me.