Made entirely of local wood, the building provides 47 m² of living space with a minimal CO2 footprint: local suppliers and local crafts using local long-lasting and recyclable materials manufactured with the precision and care of tyrolese handwork. The Fincube is a materialized vision of a small housing unit with a long lifecycle. It can easily be dismantled and rebuilt on a new site, and even more important for nature hideaways: it requires minimum soil sealing — just 2 m? that are easily renatured after the Fincube is moved to another location. Read More »

Within the past few years, the Leipziger Platz and several other areas of Berlin have increasingly evolved into a desert of monotonous stone walls and modular façades – only few weeks ago, Gottfried Knapp railed against the planners of these areas in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
In this surrounding, on Ebertstraße between Potsdamer Platz and Brandenburger Tor, a surprising white structure is located, which features almost no right angles. This is The Otto Bock Science Center Medical Technology where the Otto Bock foundation presents medical technology from the area of prosthetics- casually expressed: highly flexible spare parts for the human body. Read More »