Filmmaker Nathan Eddy has teamed up with Dezeen to offer readers a 10-day screening of his documentary about the brutalist Mäusebunker building in Berlin, Germany.
The 40-minute film, titled Battleship Berlin, is available to watch exclusively on Dezeen, above, until 20 January 2022.
Battleship Berlin documents the brutalist Mäusebunker in Berlin
Battleship Berlin sheds light on the threats currently facing the brutalist Mäusebunker, or Mouse Bunker, which was built between 1971 and 1981 for the purpose of animal research.
Designed by German architects Gerd and Magdalena Hänska, the concrete edifice is now vacant and threatened with demolition. However, campaigns to save the building are also in place.
The concrete structure is currently at threat of demolition Berlin-based Eddy's film summarises these efforts to save the laboratory as well as the opposition to it, as it moves between interviewees with starkly opposing views.
The 10-day Dezeen screening follows its premiere last year on the website of König Galerie, a gallery founded by Johann König who is among those featured in the film.
As an advocate for the building's preservation, König proposes transforming the building into a cultural centre, taking cues from the König Galerie that he created within a brutalist church.
At the other end of the spectrum is Axel Radlack Pries, the dean of the Charité hospital that owns the building, who described it as "a huge concrete monster" and supports its demol...