Gym and Sports Centre, Berlin
Hinrich Baller  Inke Baller 

Gym and Sports Centre, Berlin

Hinrich Baller  Inke Baller 


Some architectural commissions are truly poisoned gifts. And that must have been the case with the one we are discussing now: a gym and sports center built on top of each other, one on top of the other, near Charlottenburg Palace and with the requirements of environmental respect in the style of the area, with the mimetic stylistic criteria of municipal officials. Berlin 1988 in the midst of a vanity fair. All large spaces, gyms, and sports centers must obviously appear free of vertical supports, and even the parking lot must remain as unobtrusive as possible...[+]