Apart from the photos in the post “Moscow Kickboxing..” post you find some further photographs here!
Neben den Bildern des Blogeintrags “Moskauer Kickboxing..” , gibt es hier noch einige mehr zu sehen.
Monthly Archive for August, 2008
We are happy to present our new Sponsor:
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Sedus is involved in the Hamam-Project - blogentry August 11, providing ergonomic A-class office furniture for the new office building.
Thanks to Fikri Güven, Stefan Ziegler (SEDUS) and also Florian Schröder (DAWF) we could establish this mutual and hopefully lasting partnership.
Sedus also has an “Ofis Mebeli” showroom in Baku.
15, Sheykh Shamil str., Baku
Azerbaijan
Tel: + 994 12 492 97 45
Fax: + 994 50 560 66 06
EMail: hidayat@era-az.net
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Glücklicherweise gesellt sich die Sedus AG, die erstklassige, ergonomische Büromöbel herstellt, zu unseren Sponsoren und unterstützt unser Schaffen und die Ausstellungen finanziell.
Danke an Fikri Güven und Stefan Ziegler von Sedus sowie an Florian Schröder (DAWF) für das Vermitteln des Kontaktes!
Sedus unterhält auch in Baku einen “Ofis Mebeli” Showroom.
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No weekend: Our work is a daily hunt for interesting conversations, gripping photomotives, mapping, exploring every part of the city and getting insights in the inner lifes of houses.
We are talking to people on the street, knocking on doors, drinking chai with welcoming Azeris, doing lots of pantomime for basic conversation, hiding away from security and police in order to get some good shots, going to ambassador dinners, doing research on the internet, in libraries, or interviews with professionals from the building business.
Here some images of our working process:
D: Helenendorf (Xanlar) ist eine hübsche Stadt mit alten deutschen weißverputzten Häuschen, sauberen Alleen und kleinen Bächlein, die die Straße entlang fließen. Alles in allem sehr idyllisch, eine entspannte Atmosphäre, fast wie Urlaub!
Continue reading ‘Moskauer Kickboxen auf Schwäbisch - Moscow Kickboxing in Swabian’
From our long period of silence you can guess that things have been quite busy over here letely. Apart from our own project we now are engaged in the German embassadors’ project, to publish 4 books by next year - the German Cultural Year in Azerbaijan. To one of them - “German Architecture” in Baku we will contribute photographs and texts which require quite some amount of extra work.
Sebastian and I have been tracing an old list by a great Bakunian russian speaking Architecture Professor Mr. Fatulayev (hopefully I spelled it correctly..) in order to find all the listed German buildings, built by German Architects during the first Oilboom Period 19/20th century.
First challange was the update of street names as they seem to change here every couple of years. By the time we got to some of the buildings, we then realised that quite a few of them are not easy to capture.. Sebastian once again had to escape from the police who forced him to delete his pictures of one of the Oilfirm’s Headquarters. Also the Iraqi-Embassy is in one of Mr. Edel’s buildings. We didn’t even dare to try here.
Well and tomorrow at 6 (actually in 3 hours time) we will hit the road to Khanlar, Ex-German Settlement by the name Helenendorf. Invited once again by our Embassador we will join the summerparty and inauguration of the German churches bell.
We will soon tell you more and get you up to date concerning our work on Urban Changes, our Interviews and latest Adventures.
We found out that a area of about 1/4 km² might be demolished in order to build a park. Even though Baku isn´t a totally dry city this project will hopefully improve local amenities. Therefore this would be considered as a ‘constructive deconstruction’ as opposed to the demolition caused by private investors.
A pity for some real beauties as this house here:
Einige Häuserblöcke (ca. 1/4 km²) werden wahrschenlich zu einem Park umgewandelt werden. Es ist zwar nicht so, als gäbe es in Baku kein Grün, aber dennoch ist dieser zu erwartende Abriß anders einzuschätzen als solche, die von privaten Investoren veranlaßt werden. Da der Park dem Gemeinwohl zugute kommt.
Trotzdem schade um einige Schätzchen:
Zahit, a nice 27 year old taxi driver has a certain trick to avoid problems with the polis. Can you make it out ?
Ein 27 Jahre junger Taxifahrer Zahit hat einen kleinen Trick, sich Knöllchen und derlei andere Scherereien mit den Polizei vom Hals zu halten….
Instead of a parking disc (ok, this is a joke within the joke ;-) he puts some “Polis”-Magazins on the car dashboard which you can only own if you are related with any police man.
Anstelle einer Parkscheibe (die in Aserbaidschan freilich nicht existiert ;-) legt er “Polis” Magazine aus, die man nur besitzen kann, wenn man entsprechende Verwandte hat.
Continue reading ‘Polis Ladarrari’
Let the photographs tell stories…lassen wir die Bilder sprechen:
We also started our street interviews “officially” yesterday and revealed some interesting “facts” about Baku’s development.
In the picture you can see our key to the Azeri/Russian speaking world Darina (Architecture student and great aid in our work process) one of our interview partners and me.
A couple of days ago we visited an interesting project with our potential sponsor SEDUS.
An old Hamam - being reused as an office building, refurbishing and maintaining the historic soviet structures from the 40ies/50ies, revealing the regional limestone on the inside and outside.
This might be a nice example for a developer choosing the advantages of flexible floor plans, a cooling atrium and beautiful high quality stone structures as opposed to demolition and a fast erection of a new high rise building.
Soviet Hamam (1950) being renovated instead torn down / Altes 50er Jahre Soviet-Hamam, das renoviert statt abgerissen wird
