New Spaces

Baukultur in Germany deserves its own magazine. Neue Räume / New Spaces was published in March 2015 in partnership with the magazine “Stadtaspekte – die dritte Seite der Stadt”. The Baukultur Magazine illuminates urban Baukultur and its future in Germany with an extensive accompanying article about the Baukultur Report, individual essays, interviews, and photo series. It presents facts, diagrams, and results from the Baukultur Report in an easy to understand form and links the subject matter with personal and everyday facets of life.

For the magazine, author Lisa Rüffer spent a day in Ulm’s new town centre, which was built over a former six-lane road. On a walk through Ritterstrasse in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district, architectural mediator Riklef Rambow explains why it is so difficult for architecture to respond to the tastes of both laypeople and experts, and editor Sven Stienen visited Margarethenhöhe in Essen, Germany’s first garden city, where a generational conflict is emerging in the petite bourgeois idyll.