Holzmarkt

Walking into the elaborate urban experiment that is Holzmarkt, a sign over the entrance declares, “Big dreams need space and courageous investors.” In the fast-changing social and economic landscape of Berlin, it has miraculously achieved both.

Holzmarkt grew out of the famous Bar 25, a squat-turned-club on the banks of the River Spree, less than two kilometres down the river from Alexanderplatz and the centre of Berlin. Co-operatively run, it’s a place where people