March 2025 - July 2025
The redevelopment of Hamburg’s Sofitel hotel and the Haus der Bürgerschaft offers a critical opportunity to reverse this trend. Hotels, which Siegfried Kracauer once celebrated as “surface expressions” of modern life and laboratories for the public, have devolved into hermetic capsules of exclusion. This project poses a vital question: can we reclaim the hotel as a political public space? [Read More...]