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Hamburg has splashed out on a new subway line with two new, well-designed train stations. One is for the most part still closed since there are no finished buildings close by. But one day there will be thousands using the new route to travel through the city. That’s a promise!
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On the road to the “New American Dream”
by Jörg Zimmermann
The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) in Rotterdam is honoring the great American architect Louis Kahn with his first retrospective in 20 years. The Vitra Design Museum played an instrumental role in the conception of the exhibition, which will be on show there next year.
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Room with a fairytale garden
by Milenka Thomas
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Save the future!
by Claus Richter
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Phenomenology of viewing
by Sandra Hofmeister
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When apartment blocks are built of asparagus
by Sandra Hofmeister
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The art of vaulting
While we continue to digitally network ourselves ever further, home sweet home is largely still an analog island. Yet there are many arguments in favor of connecting the various technologies in our homes. Light+Building featured systems and ways to technically organize the interaction of lighting, heating, communications and household appliances.
The exhibition "Building the Revolution" at Berlin's Martin Gropius Bau presents a range of Soviet art and architecture from the period 1915-35. The geometric idiom typical of these works lends the art an architectural feel as expressed in names such as "Painterly architecture".
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Ready for take-off
by Nina Reetzke
"I don't draw – I photograph!," says John Pawson. And we can readily believe him: in the course of the last decade the British architect has shot over 250,000 photos. And for the first time a selection is on show at Munich Technical University's Architecture Museum attached to Pinakothek der Moderne.
The "Testify! The Consequences of Architecture" exhibition at Deutsches Architektur Zentrum in Berlin explores individual experiences with architectural projects worldwide.
From 2014 onwards, the London Design Museum will be at home in the former Commonwealth Institute on Kensington High Street. No less an architect than John Pawson has been commissioned to redesign the building, which has stood empty for a decade, to fit its new purpose. The plans have just been presented in London.
With around 1,300 exhibitors and more than 115,000 visitors, this year's "Swissbau" in Basle was an innovative and highly successful trade fair that satisfied exhibitors and visitors alike. In 2014 "Swissbau" will be held in the architects Herzog & de Meuron's new extension to the complex. In a series of images we present you with the highlights of this year's fair.
With sustainability and energy efficiency as its topics, the "Swissbau" trade fair in Basle has impressively positioned itself as a smaller Swiss alternative to "Bau" in Munich.
Over a period of two years, Ingrid von Kruse photographed stars of the international architecture scene. A selection of these, portraits of celebrities such as Bjarke Ingels, Peter Zumthor and Oscar Niemeyer, is currently on show at Deutsches Architekturmuseum under the title "Eminent Architects". The pictures are a testimony to the photographer's masterly and sensitive approach; only the presentation, as though in a hall of fame, leaves something to be desired.
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Teamplaying Architecture – New Adidas Building in Herzogenaurach by kadawittfeldarchitecture
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Icy setting instead of earthquakes
by Sandra Hofmeister
They have been fueling automotive advancement for around 100 years now: gas stations. In Christof Vieweg's informative and richly illustrated book "Volltanken bitte!" we discover that the first gas station was a pharmacy, which brands were once sold, when certain architectural models emerged and what particularly attractive stations look like.
About half of all the high-rises that stand in the cities of this world have been built in the last decade. Curator Andres Janser sets out in his show "High-Rises - Dream and Reality" at Museum für Gestaltung Zürich to explore what is behind this boom.
The new Kunsthalle Bremen buildings are largely still empty. Before all eyes turn to the first exhibition on Edvard Munch, due to open in mid-October, attention is currently focused on the architecture by Berlin-based firm Hufnagel Pütz Rafaelian.
He is without doubt one of the best-known Frankfurt architects and the German Architecture Museum is rightly devoting a major retrospective to his oeuvre. For Frankfurt, Ernst developed the concept of "The New Frankfurt", which should to this day prompt discussion, for example as regards overcoming bureaucratic hurdles.
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Living with “Eastern Modernism”
by Sandra Hofmeister
Outside his home country few know of Kim Swoo Geun, yet in South Korea he is considered one of the founders of architectural Modernism. A show in Berlin's Galerie Aedes curated by South Koreans offers everyone a chance to study the designs for the structures such as the Kyung Dong Church more closely.
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In the right light
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Perforated, embossed refined
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My house has four corners
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The opening of a once forbidden city
by Dirk Meyhöfer
Thanks to the last architecture biennial a new generation of Japanese architects became known in Europe. One of them was Sou Fujimoto, who previously drew attention with his “Tokyo Apartment” and the“Primitive Future House”. Ayako Kamozawa met Sou Fujimoto in Tokyo and talked to him about his concept of order.
Cafeteria Rog is located in the center of Ljubljana, directly at the site of a new cultural center, named “Rog”.
The Viennese architecture firm Solid architecture landed the contract to design the new Bene showroom in the Austrian capital.
Homapal offers a wide range of laminated wood panels with high-quality deck laminates.
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Ideas are revolutions
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Remixing Lisbon
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Place for religious encounters
Custom-made perforated sheet metal decorated the facades and sun-protection sections used for the houses in Berlin's Marthashof.
The creative possibilities for utilizing colored glasses, dichroic color effect glasses and double-sided optical interference anti-reflective glasses are highlighted by three distinctive sample projects.
The stairs made by the Dutch manufacturer are nothing if not varied: on the one hand on account of the unusual combination of materials, and on the other their diverse shapes.
Alluding to the saddle roofs of the adjacent houses and with care not to intrude on the village surroundings, Zurich-based architects Gramazio& Kohler have found a daring reinterpretation of the "detached home" in Riedikon, Switzerland.
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At home in the open air
For the design of the fashion boutique "Delicatessen", the New York architects from Z-A studio chose a low-price, highly prevalent material: the shop is clad almost entirely in perforated white chipboard.
Designing the new Vodafone building in Oporto, Portugal, the architects José António Barbosa and Pedro Guimarães of Barbosa Guimarães Arquitectos wished to reflect Vodafone's credo "Vodafone Life, Life in Motion".
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Prisms on the ceiling
The motif of a vine, inlaid in prefabricated concrete building parts and perforated metal panels is growing across the entire shell of a building at a winery in Hungary.
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A Jules Verne of architecture
by Amelie Znidaric
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How the gods live
by Amelie Znidaric
As opposed to most glass, on account of its U-shape, profiled glass is extremely resilient and can be used for large surface areas. Furthermore, this specially-shaped construction glass has typical aesthetic advantages.
The "Floor and more power" hollow flooring system can be installed quickly and accurately. It is particularly resilient and is ideal for prestigious areas such as car showrooms and public areas, for example the entrance hall in airports and museums.
At the BAU trade fair, Solarlux will be presenting a new façade concept with its "Co2mfort façade". This aims to reduce the use of artificial lighting and complex building air conditioning technology and, in turn, sustainably reduce CO2 emissions.
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Fully automatic corner openings and telescopic drive
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Glass room dividers
The Unilever Head Office in Hamburg's Havencity, designed by Behnisch Architekten, was that first office building of its kind to rely completely on LEDs for light. Moreover, a curtain of transparent high-tech plastic foil runs like a second skin across the entire facade.
Thanks to the "GraphicConcrete" technology, patterns, images and texts can be durably applied to concrete surfaces.
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Bjarke Ingels explains the world the way we like it
by Sandra Hofmeister
In his two-volume "Die Stadt im 20. Jahrhundert" (The City in the 20th Century), Vittorio Magnano Lampugnani summarizes topographical, historiographic and organizational aspects of urban planning with an impressive wealth of material, a monographic approach to key figures, and great earnestness.
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The model housing development in Òbuda
by Peter Sägesser
Something is happening in Russia. Concern about the architectural quality of the buildings in Moscow and the approach taken to public space has led to the founding of the Strelka Institutes. The educational institute's provisional new building was created by Rem Koolhaas, who is supporting the initiators.
The circular skylights and large glass facades bring natural light into the rooms of the house Spreng.
At present, the London Design Museum is holding a retrospective on the works of John Pawson. Alexander Menden met the British architect and talked with him about the difference between "building" and "architecture", fleeting ideal states and his failed attempt to become a Buddhist monk.
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At home in a container
They can be installed quickly and come in many shapes as serial productions - the inflatable structures by London company Inflate.
With the exhibition "Small Scale, Big Change", the Museum of Modern Art in New York City is honoring socially motivated architecture from around the world. On display are eleven projects which, detached from the mainstream, help to improve local living conditions. As meager as the means may in some cases be, the impact this commitment to building has is astonishing.
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Kaleidoscopic urban planning
by Mathias Remmele
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As you like it!
by Daniel von Bernstorff
The Empire Riverside Hotel is located on the former industrial site of the Bavaria Brewery in the center of Hamburg. When selecting the materials, David Chipperfield Architects paid special attention to their aging process.
The "Atrium House" in the heart of the Sierra Calderona in Spain is a marvelously geometric, linear residential complex.
The facade of the Uppsala Concert and Congress Hall consists of a variation of vertical, slightly bent coffers, which interact to create the appearance of large, split crystal.
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Unifying Art and Urban Living
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Off-the-rack power output
Concluding our series on the Architecture Biennial we ask: What vision of architecture do the exhibitions and contributions communicate? What attitudes do the architects take towards the past, present and future, and what role do power, experience and atmosphere play?
Under the heading of "Chronochaos" Rem Koolhaas presents his proposals for the preservation of monuments and historical buildings. In one of the rooms at the back of Palazzo delle Esposizioni, visitors come face to face with photos, furniture and documents, some of which are stored as if in an archive. The architect has dedicated himself to a topic that comes as a surprise not only for the Biennial, but also for himself and his OMA studio.
Oscar Niemeyer still works as an architect - at the grand old age of 102. As the exhibition in the Brazilian pavilion proves conclusively. The title "Brasilia - 50 Years On" whets the viewer's appetite; after all, the rigorously modern city was the promise of the day. Alongside Niemeyer, who designed the ideal city's most important buildings, the works of a new generation of young architects are also on display. Nonetheless, the Biennial's perhaps most interesting contribution to Brazilian architecture is actually to be found elsewhere.
When the world changes, architecture changes, too. That sounds easier than it is. So what do the visions of the many different "futures" gathered at the Architecture Biennial look like? And what role does the past play in them?
Japan's pavilion finds and unusual and surprising way to celebrate the "Metabolist" movement, which kicked off about half a century ago. Instead of space capsules and concrete shelving full of living units you can peruse doll's-house-sized models and an insightful presentation of Tokyo as the city of permanent change.
In Russian Pavilion a serious attempt is being made at the dialectical triple jump from the past into the future. It presented three emotional states en route to ideas to reanimate the Russian industrial city of Vyshny Volochok.
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Producing atmospheres or Close Links to Art
by Carsten Krohn
The solution need not always be a new building. And in the French Pavilion Dominique Perrault therefore asks how empty spaces in a city are handled and how we can rejuvenate our metropolitan peripheries. The Dutch Pavilion also focuses on how the existing can best be used. Here, Rietveld Landscape addresses the use of government-owned vacant buildings.
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High Noon in the Red Salon
by Dirk Meyhöfer
Kazuyo Sejima, the Director of the 12th Venice Architecture Biennial, has pulled something special out of the bag with the central exhibition "People meet in Architecture". She has managed to create an atmosphere of light-heartedness in which the opportunities afforded by contemporary architecture as well as the latter's limits are on show without glossing over the weighty issues.
A residential house near Munich was given an artificial touch in a bid to better control the wood's natural graying process.
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A traveling house
by Nina Reetzke
A traditional stone house in the Pyrenees was converted into a comfortable and handy second home.
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The Senior Leisure Nomad and the temporary city
by Deane Simpson
If you look up the term single-room house in the specialist literature, you will find a simple sentence explaining this type of dwelling: the single room is the simplest way to divide up a groundplan, as it entails a house with no inside walls or separate rooms.
The "AUFA Audi Urban Future Award 2010", which is curated by Stylepark, has set itself the task of thinking about the city of tomorrow as regards the issue of mobility. We are running a series of articles in coming weeks on some aspects of automobility and urban planning as relating to the AUFA - the latter will culminate on August 25 with a presentation of the findings in Venice in the form of an exhibition and the selection of the first prize winner.
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Red, redder, reddest
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Just plans!
by Mathias Remmele
The slat blinds arranged in three different color shades on the façade of a new library building can be opened and closed like the pages of a book.
Recently published, the "Container Atlas" provides evidence that a new age of container architecture has dawned. It follows the trend towards temporary buildings trend and is a kind of pop-up architecture that no longer lays claim to historical longevity.
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The house as anchorage for the soul
by Thomas Wagner
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Between sunscreen and transparency: Everything for books
Today, one increasingly comes across gold-plated architecture - be it on the facade of a department store that deals in precious metals, an information pavilion or a museum building. But now you can even find it lending a gleam to educational facilities and kindergartens, not to mention bakeries and police stations.
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Living in stacks
by Peter-Philipp Schmitt
The Finnish pavilion at this year's Expo in Shanghai shows how you can forge an overall concept from symbols of fish scales, stones, a view of the Nordic skies, dew, water and wood.
A single-family apartment for four people is situated in a stately building in southern Amsterdam. The original structure, with rooms for staff, a double hall and long hallways with lots of doors has been transformed into a spacious, transparent dwelling full of light and air.
The Audi Urban Future Award aims to analyze the future of our cities in the context of questions of mobility, and to offer concrete suggestions for their reconfiguration. During a Conference in London initial results are presented in a workshop. The process is documented and discussed in a publication.
Firmly anchored in the ground like a solid rock but with an airy and extremely open presence, the house stands in the rugged Wapiti Valley in Wyoming, United States.
Wide and tall panorama windows held by fine-line, lightweight frames create fluid boundaries between inside and outside and offer stunning views of the surroundings.
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A good reading of London's soul
by Lucy Bullivant
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A calabash of fun
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Rural urban interaction – the harmonious interaction between town and country
A new congress center has opened in the Uzbek capital Tashkent. The mineral material Corian® was the primary material used for the wall cladding in the auditorium.
Centuries ago, in a small town in Tunisia on the edge of the Sahara, craftsmen experimented with the decorative potential of brick. At the same time they created functional but contemporary architecture.-
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Shall no wish be left unfulfilled
by Jochen Paul
A short time ago the Rolex Learning Center designed by Japanese architectural office Sanaa for the EPFL in Lausanne opened. The learning center is already widely considered as the new architectural icon.
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More than the sum of little houses
by Katharina Altemeier
For the construction of the Paris Philharmonic Georg Ackermann, a company of carpenters, built an acoustic model on a scale of 1:10. In order to be able to simulate what the situation in the concert hall would later be as exactly as possible, it even has a large number of little puppets sitting in the audience wearing noise-absorbing clothing and little caps instead of hair.
The Swissbau trade fair in Basel is a clearly structured and excellent overview of the entire construction trade.
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Big Time in the Big D
by Ulf Meyer
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Still crazy after all these years
by Mathias Remmele
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1 Bligh Street
by Daniel von Bernstorff
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The Ranchburger Revival
by Nora Sobich
Enveloped in the seclusion of Sweden’s west coast, Torsten Ottesjö’s new building "Hus-1" boasts curved contours and a squamous façade, its silhouette blending in like a natural part of the encompassing landscape.
Parking is by definition the temporary placing of vehicles on a space foreseen for this. In reality, however, the automobile does not get placed somewhere temporarily: they get driven temporarily. So where to put the rising number of vehicles not running? In car parks!
She was born and grew up near-by, and then studied architecture. So who else could be better suited than Jolanthe Kugler to write an architectural guide to the Goetheanum hill. She manages to offer a systematic overview of the 170-odd houses in the Anthroposophical Colony, but in the process neglects to give greater depth to the specifics of the individual buildings.
Simple elements that make planning and construction much easier – architects have been looking into the possibilities afforded by modular construction for quite some time now. What do these modules require in order to fulfill the basic functions of a living and working space and simultaneously remain adaptable in their implementation? The exhibition, “Architekturteilchen”, at Cologne Museum of Applied Art takes a closer look at this question.
There’s a very close relationship between making architectural models and photography. A surprising discovery for Oliver Elser, curator of the exhibition “The Architectural Model – Tool, Fetish, Small Utopia”, at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt. An interview by Nina Reetzke.
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A little hardship could do architecture good
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A house with a moustache or mutton chops?
by Petra Ringleb
The townhouse as a type is evidently very much in line with the times. And so it is hardly surprising that Hans Stimmann, once Municipal Building Director in Berlin, has brought out a book on it. The title intimates that the tome is intended to help planning, and it's a high-end volume of examples of specimen townhouses. Does the townhouse really have the muscle to counteract our inner cities emptying?
The new underground extension at Frankfurt's Städel Museum is connected to the outside world by circular skylights. They provide the new hall built under the garden with daylight, which, however, does not quite reach all the exhibits in sufficient measure.
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High-rises from paradise
by Nina Müller
Chinese cities are known to grow very rapidly. So it is all the more important that those involved talk about architecture and urban planning. One suitable platform for discussion is the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale. For the show in Shenzhen, curator Terence Riley chose the topic "Street" and asked twelve architects for façade designs.
In Berlin's villa quarter of all places, namely in Zehlendorf, or to be more precise at Haus am Waldsee, Graft Architects are just presenting their visionary-like installations and objects. Alongside converting Hotels Q and their "Phantom" table there are many unrealized projects on view. For example, the design for a temporary art gallery in Berlin that seems to float like a cloud over Schlossplatz.
Verner Panton once caused quite a stir with his psychedelic design for “Spiegel’s” offices. While parts of the “Spiegel Cafeteria” will soon feature in Hamburg’s Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, the “Spiegel” unveils its new, illustrious office building designed by architectural firm Henning Larsen – this time the Ippolito Fleitz Group has handled the restaurant’s interior design.
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The secret beyond the demilitarized zone
by Sandra Hofmeister
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Death of a Palace
by Mathias Remmele
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Islands made of old bottles and floating mosques
by Brita Köhler
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What will happen to the new Parisian market halls?
by Marcel Krenz
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Trade fairs as the drivers of urban development
by Peter Sägesser
The work by (interior) designer Francesc Rifé stands out for its clarity and reduction. This is particularly surprising, as if anything, traditional Spanish design is known more for its shrill tones.
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The hamburger of architecture
by Andreas Rossmann
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Anyone who can build with peas and toothpicks must be a genius
by Jochen Stöckmann
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Riding on the Biarritz wave
This house was renovated by architect Johannes Norlander. It is located on a small Swedish island and covered with a layer of black plywood.
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In the souk in Abu Dhabi
In Vilnius a collector of antique books built his family home round the historical walls of a cannon foundry.
The genuine wood veneer panels “Firewood” comply with strict fire protection requirements while boasting a fine surface finish.
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Ideas for the New City
The plants in the vertical gardens by Vertical Garden Design come from coastal regions, mountain ranges ,and jungles throughout the world.
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Then there were only 76
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Pink with music
by Ralf Wollheim
The architects of the new ThyssenKrupp development integrated a place of peace and quiet ( "Raum der Stille") in it that is intended for use just as much by guests as by the employees.
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Museo del Novecento
by Nancy Jehmlich
A weekend house in the Nationalpark Eifel is covered from top to bottom in aluminum shingles.
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Come over!
The venerable town hall in London's Bethnal Green district stood vacant for a long time and was only used as a film set. Now it has morphed into a cutting-edge, luxurious hotel.
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Folded, a window, unfolded a balcony
The architects and designers at Claesson Koivisto Rune in Stockholm designed the interior of the Nobis Hotel in Stockholm.
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Urban Revitalization
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Elektra Bakery
The texture of the glass used for the façade on the ‘Nordwesthaus' building, which was designed by the architects Baumschlager und Eberle, is totally irregular and reminiscent of frozen water.
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Forest house
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Shimmering facade
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When it is empty the house always faces the same direction
by Nancy Jehmlich
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Wood façade system
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Go forth and build sustainable dwellings!
by Nancy Jehmlich
The Riverbank House by David Walker Architects is located directly at the Thames in London. A great number of special glass systems by Schollglas have been integrated into both the building's shell and interior construction. The project is presented as a new reference of the company Schollglas at BAU 2011 in Munich.
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All-in-one solution for balcony and parapet glazing
The detached home created by architect Weichlbauer Ortis in Frohnleiten, Austria, turns a house's customary use on its head.
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Metropol Parasol
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The architect at the heart of things
by Daniel von Bernstorff
The example of a former dairy in Somerset, England, shows just how wooden planking and blocks of glass can be joined such as to be weatherproof.
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Tradition committed to the future
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Triple heat insulation
With the sweeping lines of its roof, the new airport building near Montevideo in Uruguay celebrates the aesthetics of aviation - and its lighting concept celebrates its powerful architecture.
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The Waterhouse in Shanghai
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Maximum insights, outlook, and views
A gynecological clinic specialized in assisted reproduction required new premises. They acquired a 200sqm flat in downtown Athens, in an area where most of the apartments have already been converted into offices, health centers and similar programs.
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The High House and the Long House
At the Danish company Petersen Tegl, the seventh generation is now producing high-grade bricks as well as a special range of molded bricks, glazed tiles and special terracotta.
We have recently seen the 100th anniversary of the birth of US architecture photographer Julius Shulman would have recently turned 100. With Richard Neutra as his patron, in the 1950s the self-taught photographer swiftly emerged as one of the most important architecture photographers in the United States. To this day, the narrative feel if his images is enthralling, evoking a world somewhere between reality and fiction.
"Haus KA", designed by lynx architecture, is a clear cube that consist of only a very few different materials.
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Seismographs of Architecture
Ernst Scheidegger's photos of the Indian city of Chandigarh document the reality of a utopia being built. More than 50 years later and previously unpublished, the photos are now appearing for the first time in an illustrated book.
Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen links combines shapes and perfect detailing in his designs with a great eel for materials. And is thus in the very best elegant Modernist company. The monograph of his "Complete Works" for the first time comprehensively presents his projects of the last two decades.
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Slab-format thin concrete
A penthouse apartment in Stuttgart is a well thought-through composition comprising three monolithic cabinet systems and a free-standing kitchen block.
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Designing a different society
by Claus Käpplinger
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The bridge across the valley
by Claus Käpplinger
The Kingdom of Bahrain has taken the Biennial's motto very seriously: People meet, take a seat, watch, listen, dream. What better place to sit and think about the loss of identity, the increase in urban space and the magic of the sea than in fisherman's huts from the beach in Bahrain that were taken down with their owners' permission. And there is already one tangible result: the Golden Lion for the best country contribution.
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When sugar cubes float above the coffee cups
by Claus Käpplinger
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The digitally cleansed city
The British Pavilion has opened its doors to a School of Seeing. Given the wealth of models, photographs, maps, drawings, notes, film and exhibits from various ages that comment on one another here, indeed seem to generate one another, all the media manifestations, differences in genres and lines dividing the epochs seem to have little validity. At "Villa Frankenstein", where architecture, art and historiography bid you good night, order gets upended.
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High architecture in the country
by Daniel von Bernstorff
What an unusual task: to design a pool house! A pool house made of glass, steel and fabric is light and transparent and a far cry from a tool shed.
AGC makes available a range of highly specialized solar protection coatings for glass - brand named Stopsol.
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LED moves to Neuschwanstein
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Stonehenge of the oceans
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Staying at the Viura
The studio of Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola came up with the interior for luxurious hotel Mandarin Oriental in Barcelona. Scarcely recognizable as a hotel from the outside, inside it is all the more inviting, providing a temporary home for design enthusiasts from all over the world.
The projects by the artists' and architects' collective "Raumlaborberlin" are far from being conventional. The group of eight, which is at present developing the exhibition architecture for the "Audi Urban Future Award" that is curated by Stylepark, is currently presenting a very special kind of installation at Kunsthaus Bregenz.
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Medium in height, but maximum savings
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Translucent, folded and perforated
Under the name Lumeo the company Durlum offers a ceiling lighting system that comes in many different designs.
The Herning Museum of Contemporary Art in Denmark, known in short as the "heart", is more than just a showplace for contemporary art. As a center of the cultures it unites exhibition rooms with nothing less than a concert hall, a library, an open-air stage and a café.
A residential house that doubles up as a dance studio: This was the assignment a Yokohama couple presented to Japanese architect Junichi Sampei from A.L.X architecture office.
Alongside Holmenkollen, Oslo Opera House on Oslo fjord is one of the landmarks of Norway's capital and is even considered a national symbol.
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A control center for the Games
"TIMax GL" is a translucent glass fiber insulation mesh that considerably enhances the thermal insulation of profiled glass on façades. It serves as a light-dispersing insulating insert and completely fills out the space between the glass.
The floorboards by Mydeck is made of a combination of waste wood and plastic and, yet, look like planks from solid wood.
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Let our fantasies become reality
by Lucy Bullivant
The environmentally innovative wood plastic composite UPM ProFi creates a visually unique marble white facade for the ‘Giant´s Kettle' the Finnish Pavilion at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai.
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Visions for a future urban platform
by Sandra Hofmeister
A ‘balneario' is a Spanish spa. In redesigning the Tiberius Baths in the Spanish town of Panticosa, the architects from Madrid-based studio Moneo Brock came up with a highly contemporary and yet decidedly sensitive reinterpretation of the classic ‘balneario'.
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None of your shabby old blinds
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A crystal made of glass and concrete
What will cities of the future look like? How will we move around in them? Archigram's utopia provide answers which are still exciting. Thanks to the Archigram Archival Project the designs and activities of the British architect group can now be viewed in detail on the Internet.
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Exhibiting the unexhibitable
by Carsten Krohn
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Should the weather permit
by Marcel Krenz
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Luigi Caccia Dominioni and the house as a bespoke suit
by Matteo Vercelloni
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One building is not enough
by Thomas Wagner
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Tear down the old to welcome the new?
by Andreas Rossmann
At the beginning of the 1950s, Italian oil company Agip came up with the idea of linking gas station architecture to the company's corporate identity. An exhibition at Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt presents Italy's gas station architecture during the economic recovery of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Modernism’s Ugly Duckling
by Nora Sobich
The Berlin architect Jürgen Mayer H. has completed the extension of the Danfoss Universe Science Park in Nordburg, Denmark.