# A 50′s gas station in Berlin

**Published by:** [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/)
**Published on:** 2016-12-17
**Categories:** adaptive-reuse, architecture, berlin, content-marketing, design, freunde-von-freunden, fvf, home-stories, home-tours, siemens, siemens-home-appliances, uncategorized, video
**URL:** https://brandondonnelly.com/a-50%E2%80%B2s-gas-station-in-berlin

## Content

I have written about the Berlin-based publication Freunde von Freunden (FvF) before. I love the content that they put out – particularly their interviews. They’re personal and genuine. Pretty much the opposite of traditional marketing, though you could call some of it content marketing. One series that they do – called Home Stories – is done in collaboration with Siemens Home Appliances. What they do is explore innovative urban living solutions through the lenses of global city inhabitants. There’s everyone from a marketing consultant who built a house boat to an architect who converted an old lingerie factory into an “antivilla” along the water. Below is a video of Juerg Judin explaining how and why he decided to convert an old 50′s gas station in Berlin into a home and gallery. Click here if you can’t see the video below. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPsbOT2dG9A?rel=0&w=560&h=315] In this case, he bought the gas station in 2005. But he first saw the for sale sign in 1992. And that was a good seven years after it was originally listed. So this property had been sitting for a while. It’s hard to imagine a central property like this sitting for so long in a place like Toronto. But I think it’s partly opportunities such as these that have made Berlin the city that it is today. New ideas require old buildings.

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