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meyerschmitzmorkramer, as seen at Waidblicke #3: Stadtgeschichte(n), smow Köln
Architecture | 03.11.2018

Waidblicke #3 - Stadtgeschichte(n) @ smow Cologne

How many stories can a city tell? There are the public, collective, communal stories told by its buildings, by its peoples, by its industries, by the development of its cultural institutions and through the actions of famous/infamous citizens; but there are also the myriad private, individual stories, the scurrilous, the appalling, the romantic, the comic, the tragic, the improbable, and of course the secret, whispered, ones. At the risk of sounding like a city marketing platform, a city is

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Stadt-Land-schafft smow Cologne Waidblicke 2014 Looker by dreiform
Architecture | 14.10.2014

Stadt-Land-schafft. smow Cologne present Waidblicke 2014. Reprise

As already noted, until Friday October 31st smow Cologne are presenting the exhibition Stadt-Land-schafft. Making use of smow Cologne's generous window space and even more generous Waidmarkt frontage, Stadt-Land-schafft presents eight interpretations of urban topology and the conflict/synergy between our natural and our built environments. And so, for example, Aachen based K2 Architekten present the installation Barb[el] which reflects on how city and countryside merge with one another without

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Passagen Cologne 2014 System USM Haller Facetten (smow) Köln

(smow) blog compact: Stadt-Land-schafft. smow Cologne present Waidblicke 2014

"What was the best moment of your life?" ask Cologne based Pell Architekten in the introduction to their contribution to smow Cologne's forthcoming exhibition Waidblicke, "Has it been or is it still to come? OK, but along the way there's been good moments. Where were they?" Where indeed.... Since October 2013 smow Cologne have been resident in the city's Waidmarkt - The Woad Market - a location that can trace its history back to the Roman occupation of the modern Colonia and which achieved a

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