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The fun theory

by Thomas Wagner

Does the world simply change or can it be changed? For example by changing people's behavior? In Sweden advertising shows that neither being determines consciousness nor does consciousness determine being, but rather fun determines our behavior.

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Not something that passes by

In the works by Swedish design group "Front" the divides are blurred. After all, what you see is not always what you feel. During the Cologne furniture fair the magazine Architektur&Wohnen and Audi awarded the "A&W Designer of the Year" prize. Nancy Jehmlich talked to the designers about animals as designers, good design, and working as a threesome.

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Ludwig conducts on the big stage

by Sandra Hofmeister

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.

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All quiet in the West?

by Daniel von Bernstorff

No festival of innovations such as is Milan, but then no one would have expected that. All the same, the imm cologne seems to have steadied up despite the crisis. A tour with some of the most interesting company presentations and products.

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Architecture

Water as the dominant theme

The new Convention Center in Zaragoza takes up the theme of "water" by creating the impression of a water surface in motion.

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Tear down the old to welcome the new?

by Andreas Rossmann

Investors and developers usually have their problems with our aesthetic heritage, especially as the cycles of rejection and appreciation in architecture are unlike those in fashion or design. All the same, the discussion on 1960s architecture is currently growing, becoming more vocal and more differentiated.

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The hidden beauty in the loop

by Markus Frenzl

The light bulb was once perceived as too bright by many. Today, the purportedly unseemly compact fluorescent lamp tends likewise to be hidden beneath most luminaire designs. With "Koi", Naoto Fukasawa has been the first designer to create an office luminaire series that emphasizes the unpopular lamp's intrinsic and aesthetic beauty.

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The star, design, the Paris fair and its refugees

by Daniel von Bernstorff

In recent years, Paris-based fair Maison & Objet has grown, to the detriment of other fairs. But now it appears that this trend is being reversed.

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Cologne Revolving or how to turn a knife and still stay put

by Thomas Wagner

Even though overall there was a lack of intellectual sparkle and aesthetic flair, the atmosphere in Cologne was astonishingly upbeat. So is imm cologne in the process of consolidating? What are its prospects for the future?

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Architecture

Of nurbs and border crossers

Spanish architect Enric Ruíz Geli has crossed the borders between industry and art by combining traditional materials with latest-generation materials.

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Architecture

A bright future

On the exterior, a rainscreen cladding system of brightly colored fiber cement panels are arranged in a seemingly random distribution pattern to animate the facade and to speak to the center's youthful orientation and re-birth of a community.

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