ARCHITECTURE Béton brut islandais7/30/2017A villa by architect Högna Sigurðardóttir in Reykjavik goes to show that Brutalism also spawned masterpieces on Europe’s periphery.
FEATURED No holes in the shade7/29/2017C4sun has outfitted the roof terrace of the “Cologne Golf Club” with an intelligent sun-sail system.
ARCHITECTURE So what is that raising its head?7/28/2017A good dozen high-rises are set to be built in Frankfurt/Main over the next five years. An overview of the high-rise architecture of tomorrow: some of it exciting or strident, some less so.
DESIGN Writing utensils7/27/2017“Aion” is the name of a new series of writing utensils Jasper Morrison has designed for Lamy. We took a closer look at the pen.
ARCHITECTURE Standing on top of Brutalism7/26/2017Architects Mateo Riestra, José Arnaud Bello and Max von Werz have converted a former Brutalist record store in Mexico City into an art gallery.
FAIRS & EVENTS A festival of affinities7/25/2017Vitra Design Museum is celebrating the 110th anniversary of Charles Eames’ birth with due aplomb: No less than four exhibitions shed light on the different facets to the Eames’ oeuvre.
FEATURED Dorm with a view7/24/2017C.F. Møller Architects chose Petersen Tegl bricks for the façade of a student dorm.
DESIGN Instant sunlight7/23/2017The "Komorebi" prototype luminaire imitates the poetry of sunlight in the middle of places where the sun never shines.
STYLEPARK MOSA Flush with new tiles7/22/2017Tile manufacturer Mosa has teamed up with young designers in its home town of Maastricht to give some of the sanitary rooms in the in-district of Wyck a makeover – with surprising results.
SPECIAL: MY MODERN HOLIDAYS Reinventing the House7/21/2017On the edge of a national park near Barcelona project developer and gallery owner Christian Bourdais has teamed up with 15 architects to build 15 holiday homes that he believes will revolutionize residential living. Florian Heilmeyer met him and asked how this is going to evolve.
ARCHITECTURE SUV-like on the outside, cathedral-like on the inside7/20/2017It’s easy to fall into the trap of only judging a building by its façade. Especially if it is as eye-catching as "Silo" in Copenhagen, designed by Cobe Architects.
DESIGN Concrete One7/19/2017Concrete in a completely new guise: In Rome, Konstantin Grcic has launched the "Magiliana Project" in dialogue with Pier Luigi Nervi.
INTERVIEWS Walter's Way7/18/2017Architect Walter Segal developed a system that enabled you to design your own home and indeed even build it yourself. The result was two neighborhoods in south London that precisely in an age of housing shortages certainly bear revisiting.
DESIGN Nordic to the power of 3 7/16/2017Take a Swedish hotel group, a Swedish architect and a location in Denmark’s design capital of Copenhagen – and you get a Hyggetempel.
DESIGN Onwards to greater things...7/15/2017The “Together!” exhibition at Vitra Design Museum campaigns for a common space with successful examples of a new architecture of community.
ARCHITECTURE Like an airy curtain7/14/2017Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten have won the competition for the new “Hochhaus am Europaplatz" (High-Rise on Europaplatz) in Berlin. Their proposal centers on an ingenious and yet seemingly straightforward façade consisting of glass and ceramic rods.
DESIGN Style with substance 7/14/2017Everybody is talking about sustainable production. Camira has been practicing it for years. The British textile manufacturer makes fabrics from stinging nettles, hemp and jute and is a great champion of recycling.
DESIGN Nordic combination7/13/2017In the form of “Noma” in Copenhagen, entrepreneur Thorsten Schmidt and star chef René Redzepi revolutionized cutting-edge restauranteering. And now they’ve teamed up with Norway’s highly successful Snøhetta architects for the next project, the “Barr”.
DESIGN Long overdue!7/11/2017He forever stood in the shadow of his predecessor Walter Gropius and his successor Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Now two key buildings by Hannes Meyer have become part of the World Cultural Heritage. “At long last!”, declares Philipp Oswalt.
DESIGN Flying visit: Design in Poland7/11/2017Design from Poland? Is not known by everyone. But it's absolutely worthwhile to look at the hustle and bustle of the local scene. So follow us on our tour to Gdynia, Gdansk and Warsaw to the hotspots and interesting heads of the Polish design.
ARCHITECTURE A Posteriori7/9/2017In retrospect everything looks clearer. A column by Michael Erlhoff.
FEATURED Richard Neutra in Cologne7/9/2017The Qvest boutique hotel combined for a photoshooting neo-Gothic architecture with Richard Neutra products from VS Möbel.
DESIGN Chromatic variations7/8/2017The Galerie Kreo in London is showing a selection of works by Hella Jongerius – colorful – in the truest sense of the word.
MAGAZINE Fox tossing, octopus wrestling and other madness7/7/2017This encyclopedia of forgotten sports brings together any number of bizarre and quite horrific pursuits. Anyone who has read the book will view people and sports in a different light.
DESIGN Expanding the textile zone7/6/2017Whether it’s for premium loudspeakers, SUVs or classic sneakers – the fabrics from Danish textile label Kvadrat are ever more frequently a sales argument for luxury products.
DESIGN Say hello to Bólido7/4/2017Designer Simon Husslein and entrepreneur Pierre Nobs want to stir things up on the watch market with their newly founded company “Bólido”.
ARCHITECTURE A new roof for old walls7/1/2017Its superb acoustics make the Roman amphitheater in Verona an ideal venue for operas and concerts. Were it not for the rain. Schlaich Bergermann Partner together with GMP Architekten have now devised an extremely smart and mobile roof structure to keep out bad weather.
STYLEPARK VILLEROY & BOCH Bath solo6/30/2017The Westin Hotel in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie is pitch-perfect with Villeroy & Boch products.
DESIGN What really happened in America?6/27/2017Alfred Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson are celebrated as “pioneers of the Bauhaus” at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld.
FEATURED The perfect pool6/27/2017The patio of a purist villa morphs on request into a world of a cool pool – thanks also to Mosa tiles.
ARCHITECTURE Architects in commercial estates6/26/2017DIY superstores, furniture stores, fast-food restaurants. In commercial zones, the horrendous lurks. Can things be done differently? Here are five current examples.
DESIGN Perfect design6/26/2017When all the traditional criteria are evoked. A column by Michael Erlhoff.
FEATURED Discreet charm6/26/2017Architect and designer Jean-Philippe Nuel lends the “Les Cures Marines” hotel a touch of striking elegance with furniture by Ligne Roset.
STYLEPARK DORNBRACHT Celebrating bathroom architecture6/26/2017Architect Rafael de Cárdenas and architecture duo Neri&Hu have developed spatial concepts for Dornbracht in which the latter’s new range of faucets, which goes by the name of “Vaia”, has its own special role to play.
DESIGN Magically simple 6/23/2017He was fascinated by the material and never lost his delight in experimentation: On Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Le Stanze del Vetro are presenting sensational glass works by Ettore Sottsass.