A bunch of us took the train at 5 in the morning to Prora and Sissnitz on to the Baltic sea for a day trip. Went to go hangout by the ocean and look at this massive Nazi built holiday buildings that were unfinished and today sit mostly in ruins. Part of it has become a hostel now. Quite fun to climb around in. We brought our bikes and rode around from town to town.
When you party all night until the train leaves like these guys, you really need the morning Mac Do:
The “Colossus”:
Chilled in the National Park Jasmund and saw ferries going across the way to the nordic countries.
Mr Rich gets classy with a bib trying to eat a saucy saucy donair and still manages to get half of it on himself.
Shones workende!
Me and a few friends from work took advantage of the Shones Workende ticket on the DB train network and went to Essen in the Ruhr valley for the weekend. Since the pass only starts on Saturday we left Berlin in the middle of the night.
Took a nap at the Nordsee in Hanover while waiting for Fabien… who took a slightly different route to get to Hanover…
Finally made it to Essen:
Matching toque crew:
Went to the Zollverein museum. A former coal mine converted into a museum by OMA. Massive elevator takes you 24 meters up into the museum.
Sanaa’s building:
Stayed in a neighborhood of Essen. Quite a nice little area. Felt sort of nordic.
Went back to see the other part of Zollverein we were too tired for the day before. Coal washing plant:
Went and saw an Alvar Aalto building before jumping on the train home.
Bye Essen.
Today we went to the cold-war era abandoned US listening post Toffelsberg. It’s west of Berlin up a hill in this wooded area. Not much of a secret place. It’s pretty cool. My point and shoot camera broke, so everything is from my iphone. Really nice afternoon.
The Olympic stadium and Corbusier’s Berlin Unite in the trees.
Definitely a highlight to climb up to the top listening dome and play around with the acoustics. If you stood directly in the centre the sounds all echoed and decayed slowly arriving back to you from all around into your ears all at once.
Rode my bike home, had a shower, put on a clean button up, made a coffee. So good.
I’m living in Berlin and interning for the fall at http://www.sauerbruchhutton.de/
Really happy to be here. I’ve been here for for a couple weeks now. I’m living in the Prenzlauerberg/Mitte area and it’s cool.
The apartment.
Our street. 
Das ist mein neues fahrrad.
Gonna drink my way through this selection at our local grocer.
Sauerbruch Hutton headquarters. And a bunch of photos: OMA dutch embassy building, parties, firestation by Sauerbruch Hutton, screen printing festival at an old swimmingpool, hanging out, etc.
I spent the last couple months in Chicago, Il. working at Skidmore Owings & Merrill and hanging out. It was really fun. Chicago is a cool place. Saw lots of cool buildings, got to meet some really cool people, ate good food.
I didn’t take too many photos for some reason… iphone photos:
SOM designed trump tower on a cloudy architectural boat tour day. Part of the awesome intern program activities we did.
Wrigley Field- Cubs game
Obligatory bean photo
Part of my bike commute to work, heading into downtown on the bike path.
The office.
Rooftop chilling at a street festival
Xoco. Best churros i’ve ever eaten.
Hancock building tour.
Bye Chicago
Here are some random photos from miscellaneous rolls of film I finally got around to developing. Italy & some odds and ends:
After Berlin, went to Stockholm to hang out with Tom Chung for about a week. Stockholm is a really awesome city. Feels like Vancouver but everything is nicer. We hung out, mostly relaxed, saw some things, and had a bunch of Swedish coffee breaks.
We went around and looked at all these awesome furniture and housewares shops. Everyone really cares about their home and what they put in them. Really awesome stuff. Tom at the Jospeh Franks store with the sweetest textile print:
Went to this awesome food hall -ate some herring.
The Stockholm public library by Gunnar Asplund:
Also went and hung out at Tom’s school - Carlm Malmsten School of Furniture and stuff.
I just returned from a 2 week European vacation. Here is part 1 of the trip from our study trip to Berlin courtesy of the German government.
Brandenburg gates
Greeting package of gummy bears in my hotel room.
We went and met with someone from the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development who showed us the city planning of new buildings and areas of Berlin in this room with a giant model of the city.
Mobile hotdog/sausage selling stand.
We looked at a lot of buildings: Olympic stadium from the Berlin Olympics by Albert Speer.
The Pergamon museuem: German antiquity hunters took the whole front of the Pergamon back to Germany - I was really impressed by how thorough they were in collecting ancient relics. They took the whole front.
We went to Hamburg for the day, checked out the new waterfront area of town Hafen City. Pretty neat area - New Herzong & de Meuron Concert Hall under construction.
We had a lot of good weiss beer - 0.5 L pints are pretty standard.
Flew to Sweden for a week afterwards to hang out with Tom Chung in Stockholm. Thanks to Ayesha for some of the photos that I borrowed to supplement mine.
I stumbled across this photo from a while ago on my computer today. You know what this is a photo of? A winner.
Very excited to launch my website today! http://ryanmcclanaghan.com/
Huge thanks to Andy Chung for building the website!
