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Kraftwerke in Berlin
Numerous historic power station buildings are impressive records of an era when Berlin was Europe's most important industrial city. The Berliner Elektrizitatswerke AG (Bewag) today has at its disposal a unique portfolio of treasured industrial architecture, the majority of which is meanwhile awaiting reutilisation. The book not only relates the story of Berlin's power station architecture, but also describes the enormous development potential that is connected with reutilising historic industrial architecture. With the example of an existing project's achievements, the creative possibilities are highlighted for reutilisation that preserves the building heritage and remains economically viable. In detail and with many illustrations, power stations now taken out of service are introduced and possibilities for their reuse are described. The book presents a comprehensive history of "Electropolis Berlin", from its beginnings, as well as insights for the future. Book jacket.
New German Critique
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Emerging young architecture
Bewag hans-Heinrich-Mu ller prize for 2004.
Kraft und Energie
Power and Energy~ISBN 3-936314-38-1 U.S. $29.95 / Paperback, 9 x 12 in. / 120 pgs / 300 color and 30 b&w. ~Item / April / Architecture
Chances & visions, project works of the TFH Berlin
Power stations stand as imposing evidence of the unprecedented industrialization that Berlin underwent in the nineteenth century. Today, though, technological developments have left them behind, outdated and stripped of their original purpose. In the last few years, Bewag, the Berlin energy provider, has set for itself the twofold task of not just maintaining the buildings but also finding new, economically viable uses for them. This publication presents proposed projects for the power stations and contributes to the larger discussion about reusing industrial architecture.
Slow Art
Introduction : marking time -- What is slow art? (when images swell into events and events condense into images) -- Living pictures -- Before slow art -- Slow art emerges in modernity I : secularization from Diderot to Wilde -- Slow art emerges in modernity II : the great age of speed -- Slow fiction, film, video, performance, 1960 to 2010 -- Slow photography, painting, installation art, sculpture, 1960 to 2010 -- Angel and devil of slow art
Menschenrechte im Ausnahmezustand
"Menschenrechte im Ausnahmezustand" lautet das Schwerpunktthema der neuen Ausgabe der zeitschrift für menschenrechte (zfmr). Angesichts der Defensive, in die die Menschenrechte vielerorts geraten sind, klingt der Titel (nicht ganz unbeabsichtigt) nach einem Wortspiel – und doch geht es im eigentlichen Wortsinne um Menschenrechte in Not- und Ausnahmezuständen. Als Reaktion auf die tatsächliche oder behauptete Bedrohung der nationalen Sicherheit und der öffentlichen Ordnung wurden und werden in nicht wenigen Staaten mittels Notstandsgesetzen die Befugnisse der Regierung ausgeweitet und die Rechte der dort lebenden Menschen eingeschränkt. Doch wie wird dies begründet, und welchen rechtsstaatlichen Anforderungen haben Notstandbegründungen zu genügen? Welche Risiken und Folgen für die Menschenrechte gehen mit Not- und Ausnahmezuständen einher? Inwiefern wurden und werden diese als Macht- und Repressionsinstrumente in Ländern wie Venezuela, Ägypten und dem einstigen südafrikanischen Apartheid-Regime missbraucht? Welche Sicherungsmaßnahmen sehen Menschenrechtsabkommen und Verfassungen vor – und inwieweit greifen diese?
The Indifferent Stars Above
From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier “An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times Book Review In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of pioneers led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows of the season closed the pass ahead of them. In early December, starving and desperate, Sarah and fourteen others set out for California on snowshoes, and, over the next thirty-two days, endured almost unfathomable hardships and horrors. In this gripping narrative, New York Times bestselling author Daniel James Brown sheds new light on one of the most legendary events in American history. Following every painful footstep of Sarah’s journey with the Donner Party, Brown produces a tale both spellbinding and richly informative.
