Architecture and History in Germany

Just in time for the company’s centennial anniversary, a shoe-last factory built in 1911 by Walter Gropius has been added by UNESCO to its list of cultural and natural World Heritage sites.More ...

The resurrection of the palace as a “Saxon Louvre” returns it to the cityscape and peoples’ consciousness more resplendent than ever before.More ...

Where once only 200 local miners worked above ground, today millions of art and culture lovers from around the world walk through the mine halls.More ...

The Albertinum in Dresden, which had been closed since the flooding in 2002, has reopened its doors. Now, the museum has been restored and has flood-proof depots.More ...

In May 2010, the new Documentation Centre opened with a completely revised and newly designed exhibition in Berlin.More ...

For the past 25 years the Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz (German Foundation for Monument Conservation) has done a great deal for historical testimonies in stone.More ...

The opening of the Neues Museum in Berlin, so deftly restored by the British architect, David Chipperfield, means that for the first time since the Second World War all five buildings on the Museumsinsel (Museum Island) will be once again open to the general public.More ...

In 2009, the former residence and reception building of Germany’s chancellors started opening its doors to the public.More ...

The Bauhaus is still liable to black-and-white accounts. While some invariably associate it with attributes like quadratic and objective, others go overboard with exaggerated interpretations of its esoteric teething troubles.More ...

Historical reconstruction in Germany hasn’t always been as controversial as the rebuilding of Berlin’s City Palace, Dresden’s Church of Our Lady or Frankfurt’s Old Town Square.More ...

Coordinated throughout Germany by the German Foundation for Monument Protection, the yearly Open Monument Day (Germany’s contribution to the European Heritage Days) proves time and again to be a true crowd puller – and historic conservation a mass movement.More ...

Now as ever, housing estates on the edge of town are particularly prized by families with kids. On the other hand, these suburban colonies pose ecological problems due to urban sprawl, commuter traffic and low population density. How sustainable is the garden city idea?More ...

The Bode-Museum in Berlin stands at the northern end of the Museumsinsel, an island in the River Spree that is home to a complex of great museums.More ...