it was child's play but he did it with passion. and now it's time for his life sized lego house to open its doors. euro banks next g.w. . what does a football loving country need to which it's going. we'll tell you how german soccer made it back to the top. in our web special. dot com. football made in germany. hi there and a warm welcome from our studios in berlin a city that literally cvs with history good fodder for great television and much

more. historical plot the new german t.v. series babylon berlin saw its world premiere. playful architecture bjarke ingels design of a new lego land visitor center in denmark. and for a connect acrobatics a group of freestyle athletes perform their tricks in the streets off stored. well ever since blockbuster television hit series like breaking bad or house of cards came along television has been giving cinema a serious run for its money with brilliance elongated storytelling and sophisticated acting well here in germany many directors are working hard to deliver just that combination to german audiences and the latest effort babylon berlin looks like a potential binge material based on a novel by far the story takes place in one thousand nine hundred twenty nine

berlin as the weimar republic crumbles and the nazis are lurking in the wings a setting with no shortage of thrills and thursday night was the big premiere in berlin. lynn isn't ready making history it's the most elaborate and expensive series ever produced for german t.v. it tells the story of a police detective environment. production costs have topped fourteen million euros babylon berlin had its international premium in the german capital on thursday three experienced writers including tom take for looked on the script for five years and then directed the series as well. as one for the whole project was an unbelievable explosion of creativity art and culture it was a heck of a lot going on in the one nine hundred twenty s. especially about hundreds of thousands of migrants that arrived most of them from eastern europe. that makes do with the rest of the population and they were welcome

here you simply wanted a new start in life. for. the series looks at berlin as it was in the spring of one nine hundred twenty nine. the weimar government was still dealing with the after effects of world war one poverty and unemployment were widespread in the german capital. but at night. the bars and clubs were full of people celebrating for trying to forget this scene shows the legendary maka f.t. nightclub. in the thick of it is detective gary on the heart played by fall couple . was transferred to berlin from cologne for disciplinary reasons and soon finds himself involved in a complex web of corruption prostitution and arms deals. for

this issue. this is. reason was a boiling cauldron of contrast in lifestyles. i was extreme wealth and extreme poverty. people with their amazing parties. and people had no idea where the country was going politically politician was for several parties were trying to get established. time there was lots of uncertainty and soul searching. this as to. what side of the sides of after. a number of scenes were filmed at a regional berlin locations but most of the outdoor scenes were shot on the set at bubbles bank studios near potsdam a huge sound stage with four different streets that are decked out in various architectural styles and more than fifty different building fronts the facades were based on thousands of photographs of pre world war two beilin the series is based on a novel by phone. that novel gave us

the framework that allowed us to tell our story. detective stories does a hell of a lot of research and gives you a real feeling for the times. side of the production team also watch documentaries and original material from this period to help to make the series as realistic as possible but we don't burn in not only tells the story of the city but also. the berlin society and a time when for example of the role of women was changing rapidly many started wearing short skirts and lipstick and took a no holds barred approach to life much like the youngster not prefer name shall not have played by live lisa frees. two dimensional one for. us i think that the women of today can identify with this era things were changing fast and society was on the move in

a way that affected women. as they started to drive cars for example about allison and i'm feeling even though the series is sent roughly ninety years ago there are interesting parallels between weimar era berlin and contemporary berlin. in badness believe in during both periods but end was an international city. that had not been for several decades of course poland was destroyed during the war occupied by the allies and so forth the new berlin became cosmopolitan after the war came down. from babylon berlin will have its german t.v. premiere on october thirteenth on the pain channel sky it will be broadcast a year later on three german t.v. the broadcast rights to the series have already been sold to a number of countries overseas and the financing for the third and fourth series is a ready in place. exciting stuff and we will surely keep you

posted on future seasons well even if you can't speak a word of danish you actually almost can because lego an abbreviation of leg got which means play well is a word that most of us know very well nearly sixty years after the patenting of the first lego plastic building blocks lego is still all the rage with kids big and small and on thursday in the home of the company a new lego house just opens it opened its doors and the building bears the signature of one of denmark's brightest lights in architecture. and his from big. multi-colored the new lego house in below and didn't mark looks like a gigantic version of a child's twenty one brick lego house. with a surface area of twelve thousand square meters the whole building is a celebration of these popular plastic building blocks for danish architect and his architecture firm a big this was

a labor of love. honestly i love lego ever since i was a kid when i was five i got my first lego set the yellow castle probably the best lego set ever made i actually told my team that if big had been founded with the purpose of building just a single building it would be the lego house inside it's a huge waterfall made of lego bricks everything here is designed so that visitors can touch and play with it. especially impressive is the gallery of masterpieces these lego dinosaurs are made up of three hundred thousand bricks and they weigh more than four hundred kilos fundamental to their league wide learning through play so the children develop best by playing and when we decide on their sneaker house the idea was to really show what's behind the league wide and when you look at it i think it is an architectural masterpiece it couldn't have been any different and it really expresses what licorice all about. the building is crowned

with a gigantic lego brick complete with typical legal starts the building block motif can be seen everywhere here the room's dominant colors represent the stages of a child's development blue stands for called mission red for creativity and yellow for emotional development. architect bianca engles wanted to create an ambience that was light and transparent. if you arrive and everything feels almost effortless but there's a lightness and a playfulness and how it's done and when you walk around here so for you of course like everything flows very naturally you have a feeling it takes they just stack the lego bricks and and then they were done when you come you know the likeness and the effortlessness really strikes you that. you

can sense how much work actually got into this because it really feels very simple in those works in this office in copenhagen the bianca in those group of big is internationally renowned for daring playful designs that are close to nature. in twenty sixteen one the city of frankfurt international high rise award for a skyscraper in new york that he designed it stands out sharply from the surrounding buildings and provide space for socializing and green in a courtyard. the world architecture festival gave mounting dwellings in copenhagen an award for best residential building. the super killen park in the danish capital was conceived as a site of integration people from various cultures live together here. a youth center the city hall entirely and buildings in copenhagen spirit start district and vancouver. and now the lego house the new

a sensation from the big architecture it's expected to draw a million visitors a year. among the first to come danish crown prince frederick and his family who arrived for the grand opening of the lego house. and that incredible lego house building also exists in miniature form now this behind me here is the toy model of the engles latest achievement and belonged and we are giving an exclusive set away we had. asked you this week to send us pictures of your dream house and as usual many many viewers responded different strokes for different folks of course is always the rule and that goes for houses too we received lots of photographs but also found to see drawings and sketches for instance this pair with a door and of course some of the houses are so inspiring you could move right in like for instance this one here and this dream house was sent to us by andrew pham

from los angeles who is our winner for today we hope he enjoys his new model lego house it's almost on its way and on that note we'll continue now with yet another architectural masterpiece. the eiffel tower n. paris turned into a night on the first day celebration of the land fox three hundred million face of the revelers were greeted with a light show and d.j.'s on every level of the iconic tower the three hundred twenty four metre high structure was completed for the eight hundred eighty nine while fast constructed entirely of on it's still considered a model of engineering every year some seven million visitors scaled the eiffel tower which remains one of the world's most photographed monuments. a major show of masterpieces by the groundbreaking sixteenth century painter caravaggio has opened in milan entitled inside the exhibition aims to shed new

light on the artist known as the master of shadows twenty paintings were x. rayed in an effort to reveal his creative process you know if you meant the. use of x. rays the same ones that are used in medical diagnosis we can see these changes that have been made and in setting cases we understand why he didn't like certain thing and decided to eliminate others and how he modified the composition else. more difficult to complete it's. the results reveal mid process modifications that point to a painter who was wont to change his mind the exhibition runs until january twenty eighth twenty eighteen. it's been billed by its own makers is the most boring film in history. now about land as premier in london with a running time of eight hours attracts a herd of sheep grazing on a field in essex. shipped back in one.

drift off to she. no people no dialogue no action the mood. he is the latest and possibly weirdest contribution to slow cinema as your own are based on long and contemplate of takes. from slow cinema to something much more dynamic and two young men from stuck in southern germany make videos that take us on a tour of their city at extremely high tempo with a mixture of pacu or and freestyle acrobatics this is high heart rate stuff and so we want to see how it all comes together. they call themselves the good times crew. their speciality is breathtaking

acrobatic displays right in the middle of stuttgart. they use stand cases and scaffolding as part of their act. it looks easy but behind all this activity is a lot of hard work. paid to church and alexander street flair do a lot of practicing in the gym before they take to the streets. how do you shake them if you don't get it right you just look bad and it's always good to land on something soft him up as a month off in. office riding on. soft landings are also a good idea for several kinds of other freestyle sports that peter and i likes also enjoy. though think that skiing or snowboarding are boring by comparison they get a lot of their ideas by watching videos of other athletes in their freestyle routines they try to combine physical strength stamina and agility particularly when they're out on the street. gave them it's

a name you try to include part of the local environment. like if you're running around the city and you spot an obstacle you think. i could do something with that . stuff that gets in your way yeah exactly yeah yeah but there's no inquisitive on this and it's like i'm not in fitness center. if you want to do something athletic outside instead of just juggling i don't like jogging anyway i'd rather do this. it makes you stronger that increases your body control and it's a heck of a lot of fun. and that's not the coming off. this is the ideal sport but alex and pater they're both film students and they've been training for the next. video where will they turn out next. to lead a load of one of the a lot of older folks i wonder why we run up boys and stuff until they say that's

not a sport but i've never heard anyone complain and if we do it right people love the acrobatics. and because. if you get a chance to see the good times crew in person you'll be truly amazed otherwise you'll just have to wait for the next video. or back to berlin which is not only one of the hippest european cities to visit it's also a melting pot of cultures with people from one hundred eighty nine countries calling at their home that stands to reason then that their presence has influenced the city's cullin area scene as many of them have brought a taste of their homeland and culture with them our series fifty kitchens one city features the foods that make berlin so rich and this time santiago fire fun market makes us some argentinean and not us.

you know i still miss argentina i miss my friends but as to my family and the weather and the flies. i miss in the vet's office this is the winter here in germany is that you dr may so those of. some tiago foxconn mackay was born in northwestern argentina in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine the oldest of four children studied agricultural engineering and then went to work on his family's farm in the. us he met his german wife in argentina. and they married in two thousand and twelve and moved first to hamburg and then a year and a half later to berlin. in hamburg. a sold argentinian wines and met maximiliano pollicie who bought whines from him for his restaurant gloria in berlin it was the start of their business collaboration

together they developed a new concept for the restaurant centered around the empanada a stuffed turnover a bit like ravioli. are very you know. you simply are not as with your fingers it's a dish you can eat anywhere at home or on the street really fast or in the office. all that often timmy and eat them business meetings and business meetings. and. empanada those are a part of daily life in argentina. the recipes are regional and vary widely starting with the dough itself as an alternative to lard margarine or butter can be used and instead of flour corn flour what's important is to come up with dough that's easy to roll out and doesn't stick. the fillings are virtually limitless here too every region has its own variations.

northwestern argentinians generally make and are not as with beef. the empanada shapes can also vary according to the region they can be half moons or triangles. argentinians love there and once a year the two c'mon province honors its best empanada baker. d. and by last i think i answered empanada as a written all over south america and i can t. in as that in argentina there are a second national dish after barbecue. and i get a life for the and we make that the fans are not as the same way as in argentina but we also have fairly is like the no that i adapted to german texts we have

spinach corn or soy for example. we don't have those in argentina so life in the us gives the thing that continue. at the gloria restaurant they serve empanada as with fourteen different fillings both traditional and new creations but many latin americans come for the argentinian atmosphere. the restaurant opened in twenty thirteen with seating for about forty patrons inside and once a month it boasts an evening of tango with live argentinian music the hosts set out to create a platform for argentinian culture. the restaurant is named gloria after a well known chilean film. gloria here. four years ago was very famous here in europe and the director was one of our co-founders and. why we named the

restaurant gloria as. the gloria is in berlin's courts her district right beside vibrant gurlitz or park in an area with a high concentration of bars restaurants and ethnicities. kreutzer bird never sleeps people can find food and drinks the whole night through if they desire germany's capital doesn't have any citywide legal closing hours. world culture not germany culture of the it's a multicultural here. they were coming here patrons from many different countries and in there for many tourists as well as lots of germans who live in the

neighborhood. in question one of. the empanada is are so popular that the managers have now opened a small empanada snack bar in the eastern part of berlin. well over about i want to africa him but there's a bit ok les who. went through a job. making me hungry well don't forget that you can find all of the yummy recipes from our fifty kitchens one city series on our website so be sure to have a look when was the last time you passed a musician playing on the sidewalk if you stop and drop a corner to into their battered hatch or instrument case it's a special talent when musicians can make the masses stop and linger and so in our series this week the berlin town musicians were featuring talents just like this and the linnaeus armadillo has more than just interesting sounds to offer.

they've been my name is the lone e.-s. armadillo and i play street music on my own kind of instrument an instrument from mine i get a heart to see how i developed and built it myself i call it a distraught city it's actually kind of a digerati do it grew out of a didgeridoo it's made from drainage pipes and cable ties. i started playing a normal didgeridoo but it didn't get enough attention on the street because with this model car you know kids are often totally thrilled they've never seen anything like it you see it i'm from texas originally they cared so i first came to germany in one thousand nine hundred two as a soldier and after i mustered out in one thousand nine hundred ninety i stayed here. you could believe in. the

for. me i was a dry well builder but i had a couple of hernias and i so i had to quit it and only thirty when i worked in an office as a translator and then i was unemployed. i'd rather be a street musician than sit around and collect unemployment insurance until the name of. the company so i don't have as much money as other people but i'd rather live without stress and make a living from music. but i make people smile. and before you know it it is time for us to sign off so until next time from all of us here in berlin.

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