ARCHITECTURE The Glass Bottom Secret6/16/2016Paul Rudolph’s New York penthouse has lots of levels. Even today, architectural history is divided on the true significance of the building in which Rudolph lived with his partner Ernst Wagner.
ARCHITECTURE His 15th peak over eight thousand meters10/27/2015Extreme mountaineer Reinhold Messner has collected many things on his expeditions. He presents the items arranged thematically in the “Messner Mountain Museums” chain. The sixth and final one designed by Zaha Hadid has just opened.
ARCHITECTURE The construction material of the future4/17/2015Textile research institutes and corporations have in recent years researched fiber-based alternative construction materials and developed products ready for market destined to replace classic materials like steel.
FAIRS & EVENTS Where would we be if... 2/12/2015At this year’s BAU in Munich manufacturers didn’t really seem to have that much thirst for the future. The industry is stuck between pragmatism and risk minimization, which impacts on architecture for sure.
ARCHITECTURE Happy Birthday Gottfried Böhm!1/23/2015Gottfried Böhm’s oeuvre is immense and even with 95 work still has a firm hold on him. We congratulate the first German Pritzker Prize winner to his birthday and take you on a journey in time through five of his buildings in Cologne.
ARCHITECTURE Hot spots: a Modernist dip8/4/2014Guaranteed no “themed giant flumes” or “hot whirlpool” at Álvaro Siza’s “Piscinas de Marés”. Here you can immerse yourself in Portuguese Modernism.
ARCHITECTURE Hot Spots: The One-Man Sauna7/14/2014Forget about the mixed sauna! In Bochum, people not only analyze urban interstices, they also get in a sweat all by themselves.
ARCHITECTURE Lively, spontaneous, Brazilian6/30/2014The “Lina Bo Bardi: Together” exhibition at Deutsches Architektur Zentrum (DAZ) in Berlin focuses on an architect who came to fame as a passionate champion of subsidized building in Brazil. Yet she remained an outsider at the “Escola Paulista”.
ARCHITECTURE Budapest concrete5/26/2014Budapest’s fourth metro line opened this spring. Hopes of additional urban development projects are associated with this infrastructure project.
ARCHITECTURE Disc music5/14/2014In 1996, Austro-American architect Raimund Abraham designed his “House for Music”. Today, 18 years later, the unusual home for music is now built – on the missile base of Stiftung Insel Hombroich nr. Neuss in the Rhineland.
ARCHITECTURE Once upon a time there was a bunker ...3/12/2014What happens to military installations when they are no longer needed? Examples from Germany and the Netherlands show what potential such places have.
ARCHITECTURE The mastermind of building shells from Rügen2/26/2014The exhibition “In Beton gegossen” (Cast in concrete), on show in Stuttgart’s Architekturgalerie am Weissenhof from February 27 to April 6, pays tribute to the oeuvre of Ulrich Müther, whose extraordinary reinforced concrete shell structures were a cut above East German architecture at the time.
ARCHITECTURE AfE-Tower 1972 – 20142/4/2014The tower of Goethe University Frankfurt’s Educational Department has been demolished. The building was just 42 years old. An obituary.
MAGAZINE Bamboo not concrete6/30/2013The exhibition “Think global, build social” at the DAM in Frankfurt shows how architects support social building projects in developing countries, in a sustainable and communal fashion – using local materials. Yet many questions go unanswered.
MAGAZINE Modernism’s Ugly Duckling12/29/2009The Boston City Hall is one of the most controversial examples of American Brutalism. Once celebrated as avant-garde, today it gets greeted only with scorn - and is gradually falling apart.
MAGAZINE New concretes for Architecture and Design10/20/2009Concrete is by no means simply gray and monotonous. Recent years have seen the development of numerous new concretes that reveal the various uses to which it can be put.
MAGAZINE Concrete – so much more than the gray friend in the background10/20/2009The new Material Edition will showcase many other types of concrete including, for example, glass-foam concrete, translucent concrete, colored and recycled concrete. Be inspired by the sheer wealth of possible uses!
MAGAZINE The hidden beauty of the sewer rat10/15/2009Concrete is the epitome of the Neues Bauen movement and linked inseparably to Modernism. Yet despite the multifarious opportunities for use it still has a hard time being perceived in terms of its aesthetic qualities as well.