INSPIRATION FROM AROUND THE WORLD FOR AN AESTHETIC AND MEANINGFUL LIFESTYLE
Friedrich Liechtenstein
There is a lot you could say about borders, boundaries, barriers and limits. Tree boundaries, boundless love and things like that. Yet two phenomena at the edges of my old home are what immediately come to mind, and I would like to tell you about them ...
Even star architects have a penchant for playfulness. In his breathtaking design for the new Axel Springer building in the middle of Berlin, the renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas took up the old border between East and West as one of the central design elements and aligned the essential planning with it ...
A border marks the edge of an area and is therefore a dividing line or delimitation. Borders separate people, countries and thoughts. Yet even if they restrict us, we need them. Not least so that we recognise freedom ...
At Hotel Provocateur, guests can live unfettered by norms and rigid expectations, and simply forget time and all their responsibilities. The general manager, Julia Himburg, spoke to us about her shamelessly good hotel ...
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