Germany
Zaha Hadid’s Vitra Fire Station is “ready to explode into action at any moment”
Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum is a “foreboding experience”
Batek Architekten renovates historic cinema in pastel and earth-coloured hues
Flat-pack wood furniture uses “nature-powered shaping” to self assemble
Modern extensions unify existing buildings at Nuremberg’s House of Commerce
Gisbert Pöppler designs Berlin apartment like a “tailor-made suit”
Balenciaga designs concrete Berlin store to reference the city’s modernist architecture
IMM Cologne furniture fair cancelled for second year in a row
OMA adds wood-clad escalators to KaDeWe department store in Berlin
Stephanie Thatenhorst bedecks kid-friendly optician in graphic patterns
Fettle designs Schwan Locke Hotel in homage to early German modernism
Curved concrete walls snake through Berlin artist’s residence by Philipp von Matt
Urselmann Interior renovates own office using recycled and biodegradable materials
Populous designs solar-powered arena as “landmark for Munich”
Kaan Architecten designs geological centre in Germany to look like a “block of stone”
Twelve Berlin architecture studios photographed by Marc Goodwin
Berlin citizens propose law to ban cars from city centre
Filmmaker Nathan Eddy presents Battleship Berlin documentary
Matteo Thun and HDR Germany create new wing with “hotel-like” patient rooms for Waldkliniken Eisenberg hospital
Deadline designs Berlin “Baugruppen” co-operative for cultural commercial space
Herzog & de Meuron creates brick extension to its MKM Museum Küppersmühle
Christ & Gantenbein designs Roche office to give staff “a reason to come to work”
The Cube will be “world’s first building made of carbon concrete”
