In the NYT: "When they saw an advertisement for the old water-pumping station in a quiet Berlin suburb, a working-class area called Neukölln in the former East Berlin, the pair’s creative antennae began to twitch. The former pumping station, surrounded by fully grown chestnut trees and flanked by apartment buildings on a residential street, had remained empty since the early 1990s because nobody knew quite what to do with such an oversize hall stuck in the middle of a non-industrial location..."
See how it turned out.
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Very, very nice, but I don't wanna see their heating bill in January.
gorgeous. maybe it's heated with a pre-existing steam system.
...or maybe they just close it up and move to a small studio apt in january.
wow.
pretty stunning.
artists aren't supposed to have heating. or hot water. (e.g. giacometti)
Industrial building in a residential neighborhood: what I've always wanted. This one is especially lovely.
There is a utility building here in my neighborhood that looks, from the outside, as though it might be just like that on the inside. The detailling of the facade is exquisite, especially contrasted with all the simple wood-framed house boxes adjacent. My neighborhood is fantastic but too pricey for an architect to "buy in" -- wonder if this could be the solution... would have to convince the utility to stop using it first!
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