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by Brita Köhler
Ship-like modules for housing, recreation and provision go far beyond the common conceptions of a house-boat idyll. In their book “Float”, Dutchmen Koen Olthuis and David Keuning present the potential for floating buildings.
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For eight years now, Spanish designer Jaime Hayon has concerned himself with bathrooms. His first collection for ArtQuitect made him renowned world-wide. Yet he was first able to truly formulate his idea of the elegant bathroom with the "Bisazza Bagno" line that he just presented at the ISH. Nina Reetzke talked with him about bathrooms, elegance and Art Deco.
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by Nina Reetzke
Water destroys, heals, seduces. In hardly any other country is this more apparent than Indonesia, country of countless islands. While in the West, water tends to be managed mechanically, and of late digitally, in Indonesia it is a design element in spatial planning, architecture and interior designs.
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by Thomas Wagner
From March 15-19, the industry will gather in Frankfurt/Main for the ISH, the "world's leading trade fair The Bathroom Experience, Building, Energy, Air-conditioning Technology, Renewable Energies". So what is the state of play with our as of late "sustainable" bath culture? What has happened to enjoyment?
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.
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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by Thomas Wagner
There are any number of trends, but only one can lead the way: The bathroom is expanding and merging with the bedroom to form one large area of relaxation and recovery. This, however, is no easy design task to be accomplished.
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by Thomas Wagner
ISH in Frankfurt calls itself the world's leading trade fair for the "The Bathroom Experience" as well as for "Building, Energy, Air Conditioning Technology and Renewable Energies". But as wonderful as this sanitary world of 21st-century wellness may seem - our old fears live on and new desires are rising to the surface.
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by Nancy Jehmlich
Wellness, spa, ritual baths, the bathroom is becoming the living room, the materials more ecological, the technical equipment more complex. The world's leading trade fair in its field, the ISH, takes place every other year and this year, in March, it is celebrating its Golden Jubilee.
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"Axor Bouroullec" is a variable system of washbasins, storage units and fixtures. Thomas Wagner talked to Philippe Grohe, grandson of company founder Hans Grohe and manager of the "Axor" brand, about bathroom landscapes, the integration of the user and the future of the bathroom.
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by Silke Gehrmann-Becker
What actually influences our relationship to water and using it? Possibly it is far less rational and far more shaped by the media than we would like to know. A short history of German socialization as regards H2O.
Every two years the fair Frankfurt invites everyone to attend ISH. From 15 to 19 March approximately 2,300 manufacturers will present the world's largest exhibition for bathroom design and building-services technology. An exhibitor schedule presents the most important manufacturers.
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by Meret Ernst
The sanitation industry is revving up for the ISH. Alongside questions of sustainability and innovations in the field of energy technology, this year everything seems to hinge on the notion of "the homely bathroom". Layouts and installation technology often constrain the wish for enjoyment and a particular lifestyle, however.
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by Bastian Prillwitz
Brothers Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec have realized their bathroom vision for Hansgrohe's Axor design line. The result of the six-year developmental study is a complex, 85-piece bathroom series. With their design approach, the Bouroullec brothers have opened up the bathroom into the living area.
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by Markus Frenzl
In Miami's Viceroy Hotel Philippe Starck has created a spa that flummoxed anyone expecting the reduced Zen aesthetics of many wellness interiors.
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by Ulrich Schneider
In Germany, you might raise an eyebrow if your host invited you to share a bath with him before dinner. By contrast, in Japan a shared bath in an "onsen" is the norm rather than the exception. A report on a weekend in Tokyo and a European's first encounter with the Japanese bath culture.
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They can heal everything, other than a broken heart, or so a Japanese proverb would have it. They are the "onsen", the Japanese term for hot tubs.
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