PLACES by We Love 2 Design
Red S-Bahn train passing the Charité building in evening light, the TV tower on the horizon

Issue 04 · Home

Berlin

The city between projects. Museums after hours, trains at dusk, towers rising.

Germany Ongoing Ongoing

Berlin is not a trip. It is where the camera lives, so it sees the city the way you see a flatmate: at odd hours, in passing, with affection and no ceremony.

Berlin

Chapter 01 · Museum für Naturkunde

After hours

Berlin, Germany→
Towering illuminated shelf wall of specimen jars in the natural history museum’s wet collection
The wet collection. A million specimens, one wall of light. Berlin · 2025
Skull of a Tyrannosaurus rex in a dark showcase, lit from above, teeth in sharp relief
Museum für Naturkunde. Tristan Otto, the skull. Berlin · 2025
Complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton in a bright museum hall, a smaller dinosaur behind
Twelve metres of Tristan Otto. Berlin · 2025

A million specimens in one wall of light. Tristan Otto, twelve metres of him, in the next hall. The museum after closing is the best exhibition in town.

Chapter 02 · Charité, Charlottenburg, a floor of toy cars

Seven in the evening

Berlin, Germany→
Red S-Bahn train passing the Charité building in evening light, the TV tower on the horizon
Charité, seven in the evening. The train, the tower, the sky doing overtime.Berlin · 2026
Hundreds of colourful toy cars arranged in converging lanes on a floor, seen from above
A traffic jam of a few thousand toy cars. Somebody parked every one of them. Berlin · 2025
High-rise under construction with cranes against a blue sky, a white hard hat and drone controller on the ledge in front
A tower going up in Charlottenburg. The drone waits for the wind. Berlin · 2026

Chapter 03 · Installations, neon, spheres

Objects

Berlin, Germany→
Black spheres suspended on wires in a bright white room, black and white
An installation of black spheres. Gravity, paused. Berlin · 2024
White neon lines looping across a dark concrete wall
Neon on concrete. Berlin · 2024
Three glowing red neon rings intersecting in a dark room
Three rings, one colour. Berlin · 2024
Red S-Bahn train passing the Charité building in evening light, the TV tower on the horizon

To be continued. It is home.

Issue 04 · Berlin

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Issue 05 · Marble, Concrete, Red Light

Milan

Three days. Marble on the roof, concrete at San Siro, red light in a tunnel.

Milan Cathedral seen from a rooftop terrace, pinnacles against the sky, the square with people below
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