Tuesday 29 September 2015

From A Straight Line To A Curve

A really good show not to miss ...

Kristiina Lahde's solo exhibition From A Straight Line To A Curve now at MKG127, Toronto:











Sunday 27 September 2015

Scharp's grids

From the exhibition +/-Fiene Scharp created her grids by addition and subtraction at 401contemporary, Berlin 2015:







Thursday 24 September 2015

Quartier Schützenstrasse

Just a few blocks north and east of his Südliche Friedrichstadt housing complex is another project by Aldo Rossi.  Occupying an entire block bounded by Schützenstrasse, Markgrafenstrasse, Zimmerstrasse and Charlottenstrasse in central Berlin, the 1998 Quartier Schützenstrasse is unmistakably postmodern Rossi's:











Wednesday 23 September 2015

Südliche Friedrichstadt

Although I have passed by this landmark by Aldo Rossi many times during my regular visits to Berlin, this is only my first time taking pictures of it when I visited Berlin this July and August.  Typically postmodern Rossi style, the 1981 Südliche Friedrichstadt housing complex is part of the Internationale Bauaustellung (IBA):