photo by photo_secessionist

A month ago, we came back from a weekend in Belgium and we landed in Berlin Tempelhof. We knew it would be our last flight to Tempelhof, our beloved airport. That’s why we took this crappy picture.
Today are the last flights from and to Tempelhof, unfortunately the Berlin parliament decided to close it. I’m going to miss the 10 minutes taxi rides from and to the airport, the lack of shops, the architecture.

Eight BMWs, the sponsor of the bb05, drive in a slow perfect circle on one of the lots of Skulpturenpark in Berlin. “This Land Is Your Land” plays on their radios. From outside, the song is heard as a melodic and muffled chorus. The circling cars create an image recalling a shiny auto display, a western wagon train, or an amusement carousel. Every few rounds the cars stop to pick-up and drop-off anyone who wants to go on its circular ride.

In Landreform, the banality of economic determinism drives in a circle around itself upon a ground which will soon be developed with luxury condos and office buildings. People are asked to join the ride. As sung by Guthrie, the land of Skulpturenpark is made for you and me.

found at datenform

Today I finally had the time to visit the new adidas concept store No.74 in Berlin. Its name is quite self explanatory … its location is in the Torstrasse 74. At the moment they only have the adidas Y-3 spring summer collection, in May and June they will have selection of adidas Originals. From July on, they will have a wider product range with limited editions and special items related to Berlin. You may also expect a China like market shop interior in the coming months, hence the olympics. Definitely a new spot on my Berlin tour.

For those of you who want to come and visit Berlin there is this new website called berlin.unlike. You can find addresses of bars, shops, clubs, … etc, but also events; it’s an ongoing collection of course. You can add all this info to your own tour. It’s dead simple, you don’t have to register, you can start right away with adding the things you want to visit. Your tour will get it’s own unique id, you may not forget to bookmark it when you want to add anything later (go to your tour and click on settings on the right). You can share your tour with anyone and browse it on your mobile phone, hé it’s hooked up with google maps. Here is mine. Very neat!

The Hoffmann Collection (Sammlung Hoffmann) is a private modern art collection here in Berlin. Erika and Rolf Hoffmann started to collect art back in 1968; although she says that they didn’t decided to do so, it just happend over the years. They moved to East Berlin in 1995 and opened their private home to the public in 1997. The appartment is over 1800 m² and is spread over 3 floors in an old sewing-machine factory. The photo shows the living room, most rooms look more like a normal gallery though. You can visit a part of the collection by appointment on Saturdays.

‘Ground Control’ by Ahmet Öğüt, 400 sqm of asphalt. You can experience this installation yourself at the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art.