Latest posts for Berlin

Berlin is known for its museums but with a limited schedule Britta Hölzemann suggested if there was one exhibition to see I should experience the Cloud Cities at Hamburger Bahnof Museum by Tomás Saraceno. I convinced two of my friends to come along, Marcus Blum and Tina and we had an early start on a Sunday morning to avoid the crowds.

This time in Berlin I found another exquisite structure that I wouldn’t mind to go again: the Fernsehturm, the TV tower in Berlin. From the 1960’s, it is a very elegant construction that turn into one of the symbols of the city. The tower has 368m and on the top there is a 360° restaurant where you can overlook the city. Some of the original decorative elements such as the wall with ‘glass pebbles’ are still present.

There is one building that I always visit every time I come to Berlin: the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial church. It is a very peculiar building as the original church was destroyed on the WWII and what you can only see today are its remains. Instead of the usual reconstruction, a tower and a building were added where the church services take place. From outside this building doesn’t look like a church, only when you enter inside you can fully admire the particularity of such building.

The first time I was Berlin in 2000, the city was still completely under construction. That was the first time I visited the Reichstag, the Parliament building, and going up the dome and overlook the city you could only see roofs and cranes, a symbol of Berlin at the time.

This was a very intense week of talking and seeing light in very different perspectives. With Victoria Coeln, in Vienna, I saw light being refracted in colours; with Michael Batz in Hamburg we talked about light as a narrative to tell a story and now in Berlin with Michael F. Rohde I discussed lighting and health, another very inspiring and important issue for lighting designers and people who work with light.