National 9/11 Memorial – In A Brooklyn Minute (Week 80)
The National 9/11 Memorial at the site of the World Trade Center in New York encompasses the footprints of the two towers turned into cascading waterfalls and surrounded by bronze parapets featuring the names of the…
Street Art 2010 – In A Berlin Minute (Week 18)
I love the street art in Berlin – graffiti, murals, stencils, slogans, stickers, poster-sized prints and my favorites: prints that have been cut out to match the shape of the image – especially…
Olympic Village Berlin (Olympisches Dorf) – In A Berlin Minute (Week 119)
The Olympic Village Berlin in Elstal was the first brick-on-brick Olympic village and is therefore the oldest Olympic village still in existence. It was built for the 1936 Olympics. In the beginning, it was…
Infamous Gowanus (Canal + Neighborhood) – In A Brooklyn Minute (Week 98)
Gowanus is the neighborhood around the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. A neighborhood that is sure to change drastically in the future. While it is still zoned for manufacturing and is mostly filled with businesses and there’s…
Occupy Wall Street: No Comment Art Show (Oct 8, 2011)
Recorded on October 8 at Occupy Wall Street: the art event No Comment which was originally only planned for one night, but which continues this week at 23 Wall Street. This is a…
Teufelsberg Spy Station – In A Berlin Minute (Week 155)
In the northern part of the nature preserve Grunewald Forest, on top of the man-made hill Teufelsberg (Devil’s Mountain) sits the former US spy listening station Teufelsberg Spy Station. From Teufelsberg Spy Station,…
Graffiti Factory – In A Berlin Minute (Week 21)
Apparently, Berlin has several abandoned factories covered in graffiti that also allow beautiful views of the city – when you sneak inside the graffiti factory… The graffiti factory featured in my 21st weekly…
Book Burning Memorial – In A Berlin Minute (Week 27)
In May 1933 students burnt the works of hundreds of authors on a square in Berlin (and throughout Germany). In 1994/95 a memorial called “Bibliothek” (library) conceived by Micha Ullman was built within what is…
