Mark goes on an adventure

Mark got his tongue pierced in Berlin at Trendline Piercing Studio. This link goes to a video of it, but it doesn't show anything graphic, just his facial expressions, because I didn't want to be all up in Tamara's grill with my camera while she was poking Mark in the face with sharp things.

Meg Chandler

Universum Cinema

WOGA Complex + Universum Cinema
Erich Mendelsohn
Berlin, Germany 1925

Mendelsohn’s architectural style eschewed historical precedents in favor of ideas derived from expressionistic sketches and romantic symbolism that recognized the qualities of modern building materials should dictate a new architecture. Inspired by the machinery of a new age, the theatre’s form contains naval and aeronautical allusions common to the vocabulary of the still infant Streamline Moderne movement. The most compelling feature of his design is the subdivision of the complex into four discrete buildings. A small road that is now a pedestrian area separates the flat cabaret complex, which now houses a restaurant, and the main building with the cinema, now the theatre “Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz”. This public zone is completed at the rear by the six-story former hotel lifted off the ground by pillars. Behind this complex is the elongated residential building with its horizontal brick bands, protruding balconies featuring nautical handrails and the narrow, rounded entrances.

Bauhaus - Meg Chandler

I took a train from Berlin to Dessau on Friday 13 to visit the Bauhaus. The train ride was the most beautiful I've ever experienced, and I met a nice couple who spoke about 20 words of English between the two of them and offered me bananas and crackers (must've thought I had the stomach flu).
The Bauhaus is a very short walk from the train station (on Gropiusstrasse, appropriately), and I got and understood directions, leaving me feeling nothing short of world traveler extraordinaire. A fair amount of these are already up on my Flickr gallery, but some I will repeat because I like them that much.Student dormitories.The dorms reflected in the buildings across the street.Everything, down to the light fixtures and door handles, was designed for the school.The building after WWII bombings.Gropius also designed houses for some of the professors, a few blocks down the road.A model of one of the houses, which were, I suppose, technically duplexes.
No kitchen cabinets -- I don't think Walter Gropius cooked much.