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Berlin Bar in Moscow
Interior Commercial Redevelopment in Russia – design by Thilo Reich
15 Mar 2019
Berlin Bar
Architect: Thilo Reich
Location: Moscow, Russia
Almost 30 years after the fall of the wall, Berlin is still a synonym for dynamic change, for culture, free spaces ? and for a nightlife without limits. Thanks to this special Berlin atmosphere, all around the globe bars and nightclubs pop up that carry Berlin in its name and with it the promise to transfer a unique experience.

Invited by gastronomes to design a Berlin Bar in Moscow, Berlin-based architect Thilo Reich?a fixture in designing gastronomical spaces?proposes a radical yet poetic translation. His concept transfers the public space of Berlin into an interior space of Moscow. He creates within the intimate and small bar a public and social space with concrete wall reliefs of Berlin sidewalks.
The castings of pavement segments that the architect took personally from public places in Berlin relate to the exchange and history between Berlin and Moscow: The sidewalk in front of Café Moskau, the former demarcation line between the Russian and the American Sector, Glienicker Brücke or the district of Charlottenburg, which traditionally has a large Russian population.

The pavement stones are formed by the history of the city and its people, hold traces of city life and political changes and are?with the exception of the hi...