GERMANY: Architecture Dortmund – Collection Subway Stations – Underground Geometry

The photos of selected subway stations in Dortmund were taken a few years ago and the focus in these images was on the symmetrical arrangement of the underground architecture and on its geometric brutality. You can attest to an artistic concept in some stations – just like the spray can works, but it is a visual and mathematical contrast. No freestyle, but the architectural interpretation of the linear, cold functionality of buildings. Still they are charming and definitly interesting creations in urban space.

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GERMANY: Streetart Dortmund – Speicherstraße – Graffiti Hall of Fame – MORE THAN WORDS

On April 9th in 2022, the new Hall of Fame on Speicherstraße in Dortmund’s harbor district was inaugurated with a big opening jam featuring more than 80 artists. Since then, spray painting and creativity on the walls have been permitted there freely and legally. The urban art and design agency MORE THAN WORDS is the patron of the spray space and regularly colorful graffiti events take place such as the HAFENSPAZIERGANG. The 625-meter-long wall separates a fenced-off industrial wasteland at Dortmund harbor from an allotment garden in the east. In generaly the entire area around “Schmiedinghafen” is richly decorated with urban art.

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