"Friends" — Towers, Munich, Markus Kleinhans

January 27, 2021

Client: LBBW Immobilien Capital GmbH

Architect: architecture firm Allmann Sattler Wappner

Rooms: 260 premium-owner-occupied flats

Opening: 2016

Urban living: the 260 condominiums of the “Friends” residential towers in the west of Munich offer modern city dwellers sophisticated architecture with the highest level of comfort. In addition to two communal roof terraces, a kitchen lounge and a gym, a housekeeper is available on request to deal with shopping, dry cleaning and deliveries, and water plants. A service app helps with reserving a place in the kitchen lounge, booking workout times in the gym and organising a window cleaner or laundry service.

The apartments themselves combine floor-to-ceiling panoramic windows with comfortable open-plan layouts. Bathroom, kitchen and dressing room are arranged in a cube system, while the storage spaces are outsourced. This results in interlocking zones within the apartments with no loss of living space. Floor-level shower continue the idea. However, 30 different bathroom layouts required 30 differently-sized shower areas. The solution? Bespoke Floor shower areas of enamelled titanium steel — simply perfect.

FLOOR — Copyright © Uwe Miethe/vor-ort-foto.de

From the Field: Clear Requirements

“There were very clear requirements for the sanitary equipment of the condominiums for this project: high resistance, ease of care, durability, hygiene. The variety of layouts required for a product with many different dimensions. And then we also had very strict requirements for the sound insulation. With all that in mind, we decided on the Bette company. Their products were simply the best, in every respect”

— Markus Kleinhans, engineer, T.P.I. engineering

“... the whole product package convinces. Not only does the company meet all the requirements for a bath such as design quality, durability and resilience, but also for sound insulation. It also provides a complete solution in terms of moisture protection. So all the challenges are solved by a single manufacturer. Which makes our lives as planners much easier!”

— Markus Kleinhans, engineer, T.P.I. engineering

Up & On Deck

Collected Works Joan Goldin

about 2 years ago

Final Days: Forms of Nature, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Library

about 2 years ago

The Goldkorn Variations: a trilorgy, Leslie Epstein

about 3 years ago

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press releases & placements

INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTOPHER RICKS ABOUT THE LYRICS Dylan Review Vol. 1.2. Winter 2019, Interviews Christopher Ricks spoke to DR about The Lyrics., co-edited in 2014 with Lisa Nemrow and Julie Nemrow of Un-Gyve Press. "There are great American traditions of pretending that the printed page is a performing art, so Whitman goes on and on revising, and Henry James goes on and on."

REREADING RANSOM Wyatt Prunty Kenyon Review July/August 2017 "Ransom’s poems are the subject at hand. They have been reprinted in an elegantly produced Collected Poems. Any reader who opens this book will want to own it."

REREADING RANSOM Wyatt Prunty July/Aug 2017 issue of the Kenyon Review — REREADING RANSOM Wyatt Prunty July/Aug 2017 issue of the *Kenyon Review*

HARVARD REVIEW Inside the Book feature WITH A CUBAN SONG IN THE HEART Iván Acosta "The music in this collection informs and interacts with every moment in With a Cuban Song in the Heart...."

Azteca News Miércoles 12 de Abril de 2017 Sección Literaria CON UNA CANCION CUBANA EN EL CORAZON Por Iván Acosta Editorial UN-GYVE PRESS —"Un texto para apreciar, para obsequiar y para disfrutar."

John Crowe Ransom’s Quarrel with Himself The Hudson Review Spring 2016 (Volume LXIX, No. 1) Robert Archambeau — "Almost thirty years ago, Ransom’s biographer Thomas Daniel Young spoke of the urgent need for a variorum edition of Ransom’s poetry, and only now, with the appearance of Ben Mazer’s Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom, do we have one. It is a shame that it took so very long for someone to answer Young’s call, but it is a boon to all who care for
Ransom’s work that Mazer was the one to do so: his scrupulously
edited book includes all of Ransom’s textual variants in detailed
end notes."

Classic Ransom The Hopkins Review Volume 9, Number 1, Winter 2016 Ryan Wilson — "Certainly, lay-readers and scholars alike, both of the present and of the future, owe Mr. Mazer a debt of gratitude for his formidable editorial achievement."

Poet of the Violent and the Chaste The New York Review of Books Helen Vender April 21 2016 Issue — Ben Mazer, editor The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom (Un-Gyve Press) "...painstakingly edited and well introduced by Ben Mazer...."

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John Greening
04 November 2015
Literature & Poetry TLS — Ben Mazer, editor The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom (Un-Gyve Press) “has done us a great service in producing this mighty and handsome Collected Poems....”

Alex Shakespeare "On in Prose" FALL/WINTER 2015 Volume 8.1 Literary Matters — “Each one of the book’s forty-two patchwork pieces is brief, but the effects are wide and deep.” Kasia Buczkowska's in Prose, Un-Gyve Press.

‘Paris’ memories APRIL 18, 2015 Boston Globe — “Marian Parry’s The Paris Book (Un-Gyve Press) is an exquisitely drawn love story that dates back to her childhood....” Jan Gardner

WINTER-SPRING 2015 Bostonia “In the Service of Bob Dylan’s Genius — The Lyrics is an elegant, outsized tribute to the Bard” Susan Seligson

Editors of The Lyrics (from left) Lisa Nemrow, Julie Nemrow, and Christopher Ricks. Photo by Cydney Scott — Editors of *The Lyrics* (from left) Lisa Nemrow, Julie Nemrow, and Christopher Ricks. Photo by Cydney Scott

Feb. 19, 2015 Issue

New York Review of Books: “Bob Dylan’s Genius” — The Lyrics. as never before “has so meticulously and so brilliantly set these words in lines and stanzas, which remind us that some of the greatest lyric poems, from Shakespeare and Thomas Campion and George Herbert to the Child Ballads and beyond, are written accommodations of performance.”

The Lyrics. Bob Dylan in GQ Magazine among Literary Editor Olivia Cole’s selected best of the year

The Lyrics. Bob Dylan in The New Yorker: Nine Great Poetry Books of 2014

The Lyrics. Since 1962, Bob Dylan, a TLS Book of the Year.

January 2015
The Paris Book: Select Morsel

BOSTON, Oct. 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/

Un-Gyve Press to Publish Selected Poems of Greg Delanty

A sense of vital, actual experience is in fact wonderfully sustained in Delanty's verse in its notable linguistic energy, product of a distinctive fusion ...

Oct 07, 2014, 14:05 ET

Un-Gyve Press to Publish With a Cuban song in the heart by acclaimed playwright, Iván Acosta

Rich in sentiment, anecdote and history, it is a sincere and authentic book which will inform and delight its readers. I recommend it with enthusiasm.

—Oscar Hijuelos

October 8, 2014 | Rolling Stone
Every Bob Dylan Lyric Ever to Fill 13-Pound, 960-Page Book
By Kory Grow

Bob Dylan's lyrics will be compiled in the new book The Lyrics: Since 1962                 John Cohen/Getty — Bob Dylan's lyrics will be compiled in the new book *The Lyrics: Since 1962* John Cohen/Getty

Oct 07, 2014 2:33 PM

The Most of Bob Dylan
By ALLAN KOZINN

When music fans in the 1960s described Bob Dylan’s songs, in terminology of the day, as “heavy,” they didn’t know the half of it.

The Lyrics. Since 1962 in New York Times — *The Lyrics. Since 1962* in *New York Times*

Oct 02, 2014, 14:01 ET

Un-Gyve Press to Publish Views of the Haunts and Homes of the British Poets, Oct. 19 1850

From our Un-Gyve archives, an original sequence of thirty-nine small watercolours by an unknown artist, the home or haunt and the poet being...

Sep 25, 2014, 16:21 ET

Un-Gyve Press to Publish Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom edited by Ben Mazer

Of the tread of the dark wood mold and turfy rye, / Rich smell of horse in his nostril, wind in his eye, – from "In Air,"...

Sep 25, 2014, 08:00 ET

Three Talks by Christopher Ricks THE KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION 15 EAST 65th STREET, NYC | 7:30PM

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Mark Chester's Touring Exhibit Twosomes at the Reykjavik Museum of Photography

Mark Chester's Twosomes touring exhibit and award-winning companion book from Un-Gyve Press represents images culled from his...

May 29, 2014, 20:35 ET

Un-Gyve Press Publishes The Paris Book by Marian Parry

In 1952 Ben Shahn said to Marian Parry, "Marian, make the most beautiful book you can and I'll take it to Curt Valentin." She made The Paris...

May 13, 2014 - The Pursuitist:
Marian Parry’s ‘The Paris Book’ Published After 60 Years

In 1952, Marian Parry presented her editor Curt Valentin with The Paris Book, a series of illustrations depicting the French capital during the ...

May 29, 2014, 19:23 ET

Un-Gyve Press Publishes in Prose by Kasia Buczkowska

Kasia Buczkowska is a writer and translator in New York City, who writes very short fiction in Polish and English. She studied English...

REALITY CHECK - Dave Fries’ Top 10 Albums Of 2013

December 2013 Eric Harabadian on REALITY CHECK for Jazz Inside

‘“Masters of musical dialogue”; that’s how leader Greg Hopkins describes his creative cohorts on this album. And who could dispute him? It’s evident from the first note that there is a rich connection that’s taken place throughout these recording sessions and between the participants involved. This record, essentially, is about seasoned vets that have nurtured their sound for a significant amount of time. And here are the results of their diligent road work and artistic commitment....’