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Aachen’s Center for Advanced Mobility is a celebration of technical innovation
Studio MDA's Center for Advanced Mobility in Aachen, Germany celebrates technical innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration
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Playfully transparent roof defines German Glass House escape
The Glass House by Sigurd Larsen, set amid nature outside Berlin, is an unconventional country home with a distinctive transparent roof
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Artist Ian Cheng explores the technological and aesthetic potential of AI
In Berlin’s cavernous Halle am Berghain, New York-based artist Ian Cheng plunges viewers into an immersive world of AI and existential anime in ‘Life After BOB’
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Herbar: new Berlin beauty brand combines art and adaptogens
Herbar is a Berlin beauty line for all ages and skin types that harnesses adaptogenic mushrooms and plants for its products, and local artists for its branding
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Documenta 15 review: social practice, controversy and food for thought
Mired in evolving controversy, Documenta 15 has raised critical questions about transparency, accountability and creative freedom. Emily McDermott travels to Kassel to explore how an edition filled with social practice art urges active participation and throws global power structures into sharp relief
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The iconic BMW HQ in Munich celebrates its half century
Karl Schwanzer designed a corporate icon for BMW. Now 50 years old, the company’s Munich HQ is still going strong
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Last chance to see: 12th Berlin Biennale, ‘Still Present!’ during Berlin Art Week 2022
As the Berlin Art Week festivities enter full swing (14-18 September) it's the last chance to see the 12th Berlin Biennale curated by Kader Attia. It tells a poignant, sometimes-crushing story of globally interconnected histories and the angst of modernity
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Artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen on how VR can bring us closer to nature
Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen leverages virtual reality technologies to reorient our relationship with the natural world.
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Thomas Struth on the day he photographed the Queen and Prince Philip: ‘It was an experiment’
To mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, German artist Thomas Struth looks back on the moment he created a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip: ‘It’s an exotic part of my oeuvre because of who they are’
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Sustainability, art and German farmhouse architecture meet at Gutshof Güldenhof
Germany's Gutshof Güldenhof is a farming complex transformed into a hub for arts, sustainability and social life, courtesy of Heim Balp Architekten and artist Danh Vo
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Last chance to see: Libby Heaney’s quantum-powered take on a Hieronymus Bosch masterpiece
At Berlin’s Schering Stiftung, artist and physicist Libby Heaney is harnessing quantum code to reimagine Hieronymus Bosch’s 15th-century The Garden of Earthly Delights
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A German house appears as a monolithic stone structure
A sculptural villa in the northern German town of Bielefeld is the latest offering by Titus Bernhard Architects
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Candida Höfer composes staggering portraits of vacant public spaces
We profile German photographer Candida Höfer, who is known for powerful large-format photographs of public spaces around the world
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The brutalist designs of Berlin-based studio Vaust
Multidisciplinary Berlin studio Vaust digs deep into the German capital’s weighty brutalist legacy to create impactful designs and interiors
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New Asian diner Dashi spices up Berlin’s Mitte district
Dashi, a new diner in Berlin’s Mitte district, offers an appetising and harmonious juxtaposition of Asian and Western worlds
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Skin in the game: Alexandra Bircken on fashion, club culture and the fragility of flesh
We profile German artist and former fashion designer Alexandra Bircken, whose complex work explores the human body as a ‘moving sculpture’ – woven with unruly desires, pleasures and violence
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Last chance to see: Robert Irwin ‘Light and Space’ at Kraftwerk Berlin
Robert Irwin’s major site-specific installation Light and Space is on view at Kraftwerk Berlin until 30 January 2022
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Vaust designs new poke restaurant, Berlin style
Berlin design studio Vaust creates a concrete and stone poke restaurant in the heart of the city
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OMA’s KaDeWe in Berlin rethinks shopping
OMA’s KaDeWe department store renovation in Berlin reveals its first phase and reimagines the world of retail
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U-Bahn: an architectural patchwork of Berlin’s history
Blue Crow Media’s Berlin U-Bahn Architecture and Design Map is an ode to the multiple intersections found in Berlin’s underground design histories
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Herzog & de Meuron’s mighty MKM Museum Küppersmühle extension
Tour the new extension at the MKM Museum Küppersmühle in Duisburg, Germany, a cultural hub courtesy of Herzog & de Meuron
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New Berlin gym uses neuroscience to improve physical health
Hagius is a new Berlin gym that uses light and scent to create the optimal enviroment for your workout
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Tomás Saraceno’s environmental art implores us to live together differently
Through his own practice and the work of the Aerocene Foundation, artist Tomás Saraceno has advocated for a radical transformation of our relationship with one another, and with the planet. He features as one of 25 creative leaders of the future in Wallpaper’s 25th Anniversary Issue ‘5x5’ project, nominated by fellow artist Michèle Lamy
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Chipperfield Architects reveals refresh of Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin
Chipperfield Architects reveals its refurbishment of the iconic modernist architecture at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany
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Discover niche beauty brands at this Berlin concept store
Berlin concept store MDC Next Door offers expert beauty advice alongside under-the-radar brands and forgotten historic labels
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‘Design not for children, but for everyone’: Jewish Museum Berlin’s new play space
Olson Kundig architecture and design practice brings kids’ play space ANOHA Children’s World to life inside a vast former wholesale flower market, at the Jewish Museum Berlin
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The architecture of Gottfried Böhm (1920-2021)
Pritzker Prize winning German architect Gottfried Böhm (1920-2021) passed away on 9 June 2021 at the age of 101. Here, we revisit a story from the Wallpaper* archives, celebrating the geometric shapes of his 1968 Pilgrimage Church near Koln
