Germany

The Berlin Architects Hinrich and Inken Baller

"If it's crooked then it's Baller!"

Between Gaudí and Hundertwasser:
The contemporary Berlin architects Hinrich and Inken Baller

Berlin-Schöneberg - Hinrich Baller
Apartment House (1999)
Winterfeldtstraße 39

"This house was built by Baller. As you can see from its lopsided walls, balconies and roofs, it was built by Mr. Baller. This house has big lopsided balconies. Behind the house, there is a large park."

Ugur, Burak and Mehmet about the apartment house on Fränkel embankment in Kreuzberg
(Source: Mein Kiez)

Berlin-Wilmersdorf - Hinrich Baller
Housing Estate Am Preußenpark (2000)
Württembergische/Pommersche Straße

A lot of glass, light, air and foliage: Cheerful, pleasant and human, such is the appearance of the buildings designed by Hinrich Baller, standing out from the grey mass of modern urban development by the absence of right lines and angles and by its delicate ornamentation. Contended in Berlin, his opponents criticize just this cheerfulness and blame him for designing a provincial and idyllic image not being appropriate to the object. It was neither Loos nor Bauhaus, but Gaudí and Hundertwasser giving the example to Baller!

Berlin-Tiergarten - Hinrich und Inken Baller
Apartment House (1988)
Potsdamer Straße 101

"This crooked house was built by Hinrich Baller. He always built crooked houses because this was interesting. He built these crooked houses because for him, the other houses were boring, and these houses were a fantasy of Mr. Baller.""

Neslihan about the apartment house on Fränkel embankment in Kreuzberg
(Source: Mein Kiez)

Berlin-Charlottenburg - Hinrich und Inken Baller
Housing Estate (1987)
Schlossstraße 45-47

Berlin-Charlottenburg - Johannes Friedrich Vorderwühlbecke
Housing Estate
Rönnestraße 16

© S. Schielin, Sélestat

This building seems to be a typical Baller house, but as far as I know it was designed by the architect Johannes Friedrich Vorderwühlbecke. Worth to be visited as well!

Berlin-Schöneberg - Hinrich Baller
Gymnasium Lilli Henoch of the primary school Spreewald with nursery on top (1998)
Winterfeldtplatz

"The gymnasium on Winterfeldtplatz is now named after the Jewish sportswoman Lilli Henoch murdered by the Nazi regime in 1942. From 1912 until 1940, the athlete, tenfold German Champion and having set four world records, lived in the Bavarian quarter in Schöneberg. The Spreewald Gymnasium is one of the most unusual buildings of Berlin - on its roof, there is a nursery. The ensemble, inaugurated in 1998, had cost around 32 Mio. € and was designed by the Berlin architect Hinrich Baller."
(Berliner Zeitung of March 22, 2005)

Berlin-Charlottenburg - Hinrich und Inken Baller
Double gymnasium (1988) of the secondary school Oppenheim
Schlossstraße