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This was a project by Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, they purchased the former water pumping station in eukölln, a suburb that is very near to Berlins City Centre. They called in the help of architects Nils Wenk and Jan Wiese to help them turn it into a home and workspace, the station had remained completely unused since the early 1990s due its impractical non-industrial location. Thus meaning it wouldn’t be an easy task, but from what we can see it is amazingly spacious as expected, but also homely at the same time. You can just imagine it being a place of bliss and creativity for wonderful ideas.

“We deliberately made the borders between the work and living spaces fleeting,” Ingar Dragset said. “The combination of vast floor space and the small, quirky nooks means you can be very hidden here, or very exposed depending on your moods or needs.” In fact, many of the main space walls were knocked out, and the farther up and back one goes, the more private the space becomes. The building spans five lives, and the back includes two private areas for the artists, a kitchen, an attic living room, and four bathrooms. As dark as that may sound, overall the spaces stick to a light minimalist aesthetic and an abundance of daylight washes across the finely sanded asphalt floors.