Innsbruck Window Views. Part 1: Southwest

In October and November 2012 I had the luck to stay in Innsbruck, a city where high mountains are incredibly close. Fascinated by the ever changing view, I started to take pictures on the first day form my two windows, one to the southwest, the other towards northwest, capturing the gradual change from autumn to winter in a time-lapse fashion.

2 October

3 October

12 October

15 October - Morning

15 October - Afternoon

16 October

17 October

26 October

26 October

27 October - Morning

27 October - Evening

28 October

29 October - Noon

29 October - Evening

1 November

2 November

4 November

6 November

12 November

16 November

17 November

18 November

20 November

25 November

28 November

29 November

Bootshaus „Elektra“, Berlin–Oberschöneweide, Peter Behrens, 1910/11

July 2014

This house strikes the eye by a funny proportion. From the street side – where the usually published photos are taken from – it seems as if the roof ran down a little too much, the two upper storeys being covered with clinkers. Boathouses in general should promise fun indeed, not just this one by Behrens. The river side shows a more monumental sight, but also a shabbiness (not ugly) and disuse. But some not-too-hasty restoration works took place in the summer as went there, so it may already look different.

Alléhusene, Gentofte, Denmark, Arne Jacobsen 1949-1953

May 2013

At the end of a long, wonderful walk on a beautiful spring day, I am looking for the train station to go back to Copenhagen. The street is blocked, but I meet a man who shows me the way to the station. We talk a little and I say I am here because of architecture. „I have just been to Dubai, you should see the architecture there.“ How to tell him that the house he lives in is way more interesting for me than any starchitect zoo? I did try, don’t know if I succeeded though.

Siedlung „Am Heidehof“, Berlin, Paul Mebes, Paul Emmerich, 1923-25

August 2014

An appealing mix of brick, gothic arches, half-streets, half-gardens and some tame nature. One of my favourite garden cities in Berlin. 

Three Blocks of Flats, Erwin Gutkind, Berlin

May - September 2014

I spotted the first one in the evening sun, stared for a while and then had to cross the street to look closer. All of them are large blocks, but with no sense of monotony, no matter their length. A play of recesses and projections – as in Ollenhauer Straße, or just a perfect layering of concrete, plastered wall and bricks – as at the Sonnenhof. There are at least two types of bricks and something English about their minute use. It was to England where Erwin Gutkind fled in 1933. As so many others from the turbulent but grand Weimar times, another lost talent for Germany.

Wohnblock, Ollenhauerstr., Erwin Gutkind, 1927-28:

„Sonnenhof“, Marie Curie Allee, Erwin Gutkind, 1926/27:

Wohnanalage Thulestrasse; Erwin Gutkind, 1925-27: