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Jan Wiese Architekten . Ralf Wilkening Architekt . photos: © Simon Menges

The site for a start-up REMISE (a tenement-block outhouse, historically a workshop-cum-carriage house) at Immanuelkirchstraße is situated in the Prenzlauer Berg district. It in turn rests, geologically, entirely on the ground moraines of the Barnim Plateau. Eighty per cent of the existing building was erected over a hundred years ago (ca. 1890–1905). The structure was always the same: a front building, a back building and then a Remise, the outhouse. The occupancy mix was vibrant. Continue reading JWA . Wilkening

Jan Wiese Architekten . photos: © Udo Meinel

Sometime in the middle of the so-called noughties, many big city dwellers thought it would be a good idea to live in a townhouse. News magazine “Der Spiegel” did a story about it, saying it conveyed a sense of life. As a matter of fact, the idea of townhouses had never been implemented any better than at the end of the 19th century, in an endeavour to provide people with an opportunity to reside in the city, in dignity and style and for little money. The multi-family house in Florastrasse in Berlin’s Pankow district resembles this idea – without reinterpreting it or turning the Townhouse into a Hipster domicile. The Flora architecture makes sense, because it is based on actual needs and feasibility, not on trends. Continue reading JWA