Photographer Matthias Heiderich – putting the candy-striped joy back into warehouse architecture

Date
17 May 2012

We all appreciate someone who makes our world look a little brighter, and Berlin-based Matthias Heiderich does just that. The interesting thing about his knock-you-off-your-seat architectural photographs is not just the candy-striped colours of the buildings that he has a strong knack for picking out, but perhaps the dramatic change of tone as you switch from one of his projects to the next. In an almost comical fashion we are one minute admiring a set of artificially rainbowed warehouse structures and then, unnervingly, with one click we are then dropped into a misty and deserted basketball court, or beside a terrifyingly soviet concrete building. Three cheers for Matthias though, as with each set of photographs, no matter how disparate, they are all equally breathtaking, and we are big fans.

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Matthias Heiderich: Matthias Heiderich: Spektrum Eins

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Matthias Heiderich: Spektrum Eins

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Matthias Heiderich: Matthias Heiderich: Spektrum Eins

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Matthias Heiderich: Favourite Places 2

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Matthias Heiderich: Favourite Places 2

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Matthias Heiderich: Die Stadt der Zukunft / The City of the Future

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Matthias Heiderich: Die Stadt der Zukunft / The City of the Future

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Liv Siddall

Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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