American filmmaker Nathan Eddy has documented the efforts to preserve a brutalist laboratory in Berlin that is threatened with demolition in a short movie. 
Named Battleship Berlin, the 40-minute film is currently available to watch on König Galerie's website. It documents both the efforts to save the concrete  Mäusebunker building and the opposition to conserving the structure.
The brutalist Mäusebunker laboratory in Berlin is the subject of Nathan Eddy's latest film
Mäusebunker, which translates as Mouse Bunker, was designed by German architects Gerd and Magdalena Hänska for the purpose of animal research. It was built between 1971 and 1981.
After becoming vacant in 2010, the building is now threatened with demolition. However, campaigns to save the building have put plans to demolish the building on hold. Mäusebunker was completed in Berlin in 1981
The Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, a building adjacent to Mäusebunker that features in the film, was listed for protection in January after also being under threat.
Berlin-based Eddy said that the conflicting opinions over the future of Mäusebunker became an "inevitable" subject for a film.
The building is threatened by demolition
These contrasting opinions are aired throughout the Battleship Berlin film, as it jumps between various interviewees who are either for or against preserving the building.
"In the case of the Mäusebunker and Battleship Berlin, it was inevitable that I w...