ARCHITECTURE The Secret of Happy Cities9/1/2014What kind of urban realm makes you feel good? Scientists have developed different methods to demonstrate the psychological impact of cities on their inhabitants.
FAIRS & EVENTS What lodged in NKBAK´s minds:8/31/2014Architects and designers naturally have their own view on houses, people and exhibitions. So we asked a few of them for their photographic impressions of the 14th Architecture Biennale. And for their related comments of course.
ARCHITECTURE Hot Spots: The ideal summer for architects8/29/2014Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam presents architects’ drawings of summer dreams – and escorts us sweetly into the balmy late summer.
INTERVIEWS Arnout Meijer8/27/2014: takes suns and planets out of orbit and puts them in our apartments.
ART Nature does not remain nature8/25/2014In the spaces of Louisiana Museum Olafur Eliasson has created a rough, Nordic landscape made of scree. It changes with anyone moving in it.
ARCHITECTURE What lodged in Ateliermob´s mind:8/24/2014Architects and designers naturally have their own view on houses, people and exhibitions. So we asked a few of them for their photographic impressions of the 14th Architecture Biennale. And for their related comments of course.
ARCHITECTURE Hot spots: The Bridal Veil of Sancy8/22/2014Architect Louis Sicard has installed a shower in the Auvergne for elves, fairies, dwarves and hikers.
FEATURED Libeskind’s façade labyrinth8/19/2014The façade of the Kö-Bogen in Dusseldorf bears Daniel Libeskind’s typical formal language – the professionals at Lindner Fassaden GmbH were responsible for project planning and realization.
ARCHITECTURE What lodged in Ross Lovegrove`s mind:8/17/2014Architects and designers naturally have their own view on houses, people and exhibitions. So we asked a few of them for their photographic impressions of the 14th Architecture Biennale. And for their related comments of course.
ARCHITECTURE Hot spots: Water over wine8/15/2014Enjoy the hot summer in the cool world of wine cellars: The architecture of the VIK vineyard Smiljan Radić designed in Chile’s Millahue valley truly refreshes the senses.
INTERVIEWS Aust & Amelung8/13/2014: form a small powerhouse that folds concrete and works with counterweights.
ARCHITECTURE Please swarm out8/11/2014Team Berlin: The city as a nervous system requires a different kind of swarming behavior.
FAIRS & EVENTS What lodged in Amandus Sattler's and Mikala Holme Samsøe's mind:8/10/2014Architects and designers naturally have their own view on houses, people and exhibitions. So we asked a few of them for their photographic impressions of the 14th Architecture Biennale. And for their related comments of course.
ARCHITECTURE Hot spots: In the shadow of the giant mushroom8/8/2014In the inner courtyard of the MoMA PS1 David Benjamin’s installation provides welcome shade in the summer heat, thanks to a weave made of thousands of microorganisms.
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.
FAIRS & EVENTS What lodged in Something Fantastic´s minds:8/3/2014Architects and designers naturally have their own view on houses, people and exhibitions. So we asked a few of them for their photographic impressions of the 14th Architecture Biennale. And for their related comments of course.
ARCHITECTURE Trade off8/1/2014May 28-30, 2014: Attending the third “Global Infrastructure Initiative” in Rio de Janeiro, organized by McKinsey & Co. The gathering is dominated by an almost limitless optimism about the blessings of technology and the belief that innovation by the infrastructure sector (coupled to extravagant funds) will eventually cure all the contemporary city’s ails…
ARCHITECTURE Hot spots: A pool in the desert7/30/2014Life is pretty hot in the desert, at least during the day. So what could be more handy than a pool to cool off in. Or to lie in pondering life, the universe. Just be sure to remember the key.
ARCHITECTURE The new Henninger Turm remains a landmark7/28/2014For the architects Meixner Schlüter Wendt planning a high-rise is normally a fascinating task. In designing the new Henninger Turm in Frankfurt/Main they show how living in a high-rise can be both personalized and attractive.
DESIGN Respelling Bauhaus7/25/2014The Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin has announced a new corporate design along with a new font. “bayer next” by L2M3 borrows from the Universal font designed by Herbert Bayer in 1926 at the Bauhaus – carefully transposing it into the present.
INTERVIEWS A building must help define its surroundings7/23/2014Not that long ago the label “residential high-rise” brought to mind images of cheap tenements and social flashpoints. Thomas Wagner talked to Claudia Meixner and Florian Schlüter of Meixner Schlüter Wendt Architekten about new, attractive and high-quality projects.
DESIGN A new Nordic perspective7/21/2014And we continue our explorations at "3DaysofDesign" in Copenhagen to find out if it's really true the Danes produce their wares sustainably and in their own country.
ARCHITECTURE Hot Spots: swimming in the city or in the river7/18/2014Is there anything nicer than having a cool dip on a scorchingly hot day? Best of all downtown.
DESIGN In the good-life lab7/16/2014As regards design, Denmark certainly has its finger on the pulse of things. Is this anything more than a re-edition of Danish Modernism? Are objects being made sustainably inside Denmark? A trip to “3DaysofDesign” in Copenhagen provides the answers.
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 The thing inside the sawmill7/11/2014Madrid’s architect duo of Langarita Navarro is among the emerging young representatives of the “Movida Madrileña”: Their latest work, the Medialab building for Prado, stands for an unpretentious and ironic take on history.
DESIGN Great fake tortoiseshell7/9/2014Acetate was invented about 150 years ago as the first bio-plastic. Today it is primarily used for spectacle frames. Young designers such as the likes of Jean Baptiste Fastrez, Joséphine Choquet and Virgile Thévoz also create frames, tables and luminaires from it.
DESIGN A prize for the wrong decisions7/8/2014The Berlin company “Dark Horse” consists of 30 partners who all have equal status – and has done so for five years. Can a hierarchy-free enterprise really succeed?
DESIGN The right Kit(t)7/6/2014Take a backrest, a seat and four legs, add a touch of Scandinavia, pack it all in a box, and you’ve got “Kitt”, the breezy chair Stefan Diez designed for Hay.
ARCHITECTURE Cosmopoverty7/2/2014Urban hurrah or unhappy rural exodus? People who live in the city are considered cosmopolitan. And yet: The flipside of this humungous influx to the cities reveals quite a different kind of international living: poor cosmopolitans, deprived of urban benefits.
FEATURED New Basel Working World7/1/2014For insurance company Basler Versicherungen Total Office Management developed a flexible office concept. The pilot project features office furniture from the Flow Work System range by Lista Office LO.