Germany Street Fronts
19.06.2025 – 17.08.2025 | Sächsischer Wartesaal im Hauptbahnhof Leipzig
An exhibition in cooperation with the Saxon Chamber of Architects and the Promenaden at Leipzig Main Station
17 August 2025 – 3 p.m. Exhibition closing with guided tour by photographer Jörg Dietrich
You are cordially invited! Meeting point: Saxon Waiting Room, Leipzig Central Station
Opening Times: daily, 07:00 – 20:00
free entrance
The exhibition Germany Street Fronts initially toured American cities for the Year of German-American Friendship before being shown first at the Centre for Building Culture in Dresden and then in Mainz at the turn of the year 2020/21. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, however, it remained permanently inaccessible in Dresden (display windows only) and was only seen by a few visitors in Mainz, albeit with restrictions. Now it is accessible to a wider audience in Germany for the first time – in the Saxon Waiting Room at Leipzig Central Station.
With around 90 large-format panoramic photographs from over 40 cities, the exhibition Germany Street Fronts opens up a new, often astonishing view of the architecture of German cities. The so-called Streetlines – digitally mounted facade views of entire streets, taken frontally and without perspective distortion – bring everyday architecture into focus and make visible what is otherwise often overlooked in urban space: the overall effect of urban streetscapes.
The thematic organisation of the exhibition allows a deeper examination of the German urban landscape. Streets are not only shown as architectural ensembles, but also as a reflection of social developments, regional characteristics and historical upheavals. On display are market streets, for example, which have functioned as social and economic centres for centuries, as well as river frontages, which reflect topographical features, or industrial and transport axes, which bear witness to functional urban development and economic change.
Particular attention is paid to architectural diversity: from medieval half-timbered buildings in towns such as Celle to Wilhelminian-style perimeter block development in Leipzig to functional modern terraced buildings or Bauhaus architecture in Dessau. This range not only reveals regional differences, but also allows comparative insights into the development of urban form between north and south, east and west. It becomes clear how building culture creates identity – and how it changes through demolition, redensification or design changes.
Exhibition displays with the topics Half timbered Street Fronts and Art and Architecture.
Germany Street Fronts is more than just a photographic collection: the exhibition invites us to reflect on our everyday built environment – on what makes cities legible, what connects them, distinguishes them, perpetuates them or makes them disappear. And it opens our eyes to a cityscape that we have probably never seen before.
The presentation in Leipzig includes Art Prints fromt the archive of PANORAMASTREETLINE.
Impressions from the exhibition at Leipziger Hauptbahnhof
Exhibition setup 2021 at Zentrum für Baukultur in Mainz
