WINNER of the 2019 FRAME Magazine Awards Entertainment Venue of the Year!
Located among the art and cultural institutions of West Berlin’s Banhof Zoo district, the distinctive cinema for the Yorck Gruppe is designed as a new cultural landmark for independent film. The design concept was to make each hall excitingly different to challenge the idea of a room for cinema as a neutral “black box.”
Each cinema hall has its own colorful and surprising identity, though they are united by careful design details and thematic variations. The inside of each of the screening rooms has its own identifying color and its own characteristic lighting pattern. The interior of one is a deep “theater red”; another is blue, another green, another is pitch black. The exterior of the halls also have their own identities and acta s a kind of individual storfront for each room: the wall of one hall is covered with hand-painted wooden tiles in various shades of pink, while another is covered with knotty pine cladding; others use transluscent polycarboate sheets that refract signage lighting . Textile wall coverings expertly hide sound distribution and dampening materials, ensuring optimal sound separation and audio quality.
Thin strips of lighting are arranged in angular patternst that do not necessarily correspond to the geometry oft he rooms. This lighting strategy unifies the inside of the cinema halls with the public corridors. In the evenings, when the cinema is full of patrons, these striplight reflect in the exterior glass walls to create mirrored patternst that appear to float on the opposite city walls.
The cinema has seven screens, six hundred seats, an extensive public lobby, and two service areas.
| Location: | Berlin, Germany |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Client: | Yorck Gruppe |
| Photography: | Marcus Wend |
| Team: | Ester Bruzkus, Patrick Batek, Martina Durrant, Minwon Kim (for Bruzkus Batek) |
The design of the interiors for the KaDeWe Flagship Retail for the contemporary women’s fashion department is an ongoing collaboration between Ester Bruzkus Architekten and Batek Architekten. The project will transform the inside of Berlin’s premier department store by creating a new marketplace in the European tradition of innovative urban retail architectures: market squares, plazas, arcades, and high streets. These dense centers of exchange are defined by edges, paths and colorful displays and the new planning introduces a contemporary vision of a "street" between "façades" of contrasting materiality, surrounding an open "marketplace" - all marked by color, texture, transparency and reflectivity.
The design begin with OMA’s Master Plan which separates the building into four quadrants, each with its own distinctively geometric atrium. The planning of the fashion area rotates and overlaps the OMA square to offer users angled views and to establish inner and outer planning zones. The outer zone will be defined by façades for the different brands that will have distinctively different material presences: metals, polycarbonates, laminates, colored glasses, etc. The inner zone becomes a "marketplace" of lower, more open and transparent fittings.
The overall space will have a distinctive material presence: major separation walls will be made from polychromatic glass which change their level of transparency based on where one views it from. Each shop facade will be composed of its own distinctive material. The bespoke furnishings of the interior will screen off the atrium to make rooms-within-rooms that simultaneously create transparency and space definition. The rich material palette of extruded and foamed metals and resins is contrasted with special polychromatic elements to suggest featured moments of product presentation.
| Location: | Berlin, Germany |
| Year: | 2016-ongoing |
| Client: | KaDeWe |
| Area: | 1 945 sq m |
| Partner: | Batek Architekten |
| Team: | Ester Bruzkus, Patrick Batek, Anke Müller |
We developed a tailor-made architecture for the exhibition "The Delicate Glow", which is dedicated to beauty.
The spaces of 1907 have not been rebuilt, but associations set it up. The "Library" refers to former "Study"; The "Vanity room" is based on space of lady. For example, in entire long side of Library is covered with display shelving, which equipped with the February issue of magazine "Jugend" of 1906, the title of "pea hen“ by Leo Putz (1869-1940), and art-Nouneau font of Otto Eckmann (1865-1902).
| Location: | Mannheim, Germany |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Client: | Kunsthalle Mannheim |
| Area: | 330 sq m |
| Scope of work: | LPH 1-8 Interior Design |
| Photography: | Alina Holtmann, Laura Brechtel |
| Team: | Ester Bruzkus, Sarah Przibylla, Alina Holtmann (for Bruzkus Batek) |