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Reflective Rooms

What people expect of an office has changed down through time. Today, they are expected to be versatile, flexible, transparent, communicative and yet at the same time offer secluded, acoustically sealed rooms. Designing a glass dividing wall is a special challenge.

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Architecture | Invisibility – Out of Sight

The intelligent façade

Façade constructions usually consist of two individual components which often have to be laboriously adjusted to one another to satisfy the developer's aesthetic requirements and functional demands. But it can be done differently.

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Architecture | Invisibility – Out of Sight

Going through walls

The Art College and Galerie Stihl in Waiblingen both shimmer milky white, playing with the light, seemingly light, and lit up at night.

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Architecture | Invisibility – Out of Sight

Perfecting the Invisible

by Thomas Wagner

Discretion is a fine thing. What we don't need to see relieves the burden on our eyes. Where a building's appearance recedes subtly into the background and systems that are essential for a building's functionality are no longer visible, it opens up manifold possibilities for design.

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Architecture | Invisibility – Out of Sight

Shower in white while enjoying the ivy

In a small house in Amsterdam, the interior fittings are in a restrained all-over white, and certainly recede into the background when they contrast with a green wall covered in ivy.

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Global Design

by Katharina Altemeier

The Zurich Museum of Design is tackling a tough topic in its show on "Global Design". It sets high standards, but only partially meets them.

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Ambiente revisited

by Daniel von Bernstorff

This year, nothing at the Frankfurt consumer goods fair Ambiente is the way it was. And a good thing, too.

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How to see that we cannot see

by Thomas Wagner

Architecture and the aesthetics of architecture move on rapidly. That said, it is not only the architects who design a building that are involved in this process but also the architecture systems and products that allow them to realize innovative architectural solutions. In the coming weeks, in our focal topic "Invisibility - Out of Sight", we will be presenting a number of these innovative solutions to you. To begin with, we would like to take a look at whether and to what extent we can trust our perception.

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You don’t even see the nicest windows

Sky-Frame is a frameless high-tech sliding window system that can be fitted flush with walls, ceilings, and floors and meets the highest architectural and building standards.

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Architecture | Invisibility – Out of Sight

Black, with a view

A house in the Japanese town of Otake with spacious open and white zones forms a marvelous frame for an almost limitless panorama.

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Architecture | Invisibility – Out of Sight

Nightingale, I cannot hear you!

Acoustics are becoming an ever more important criterion in the planning and outfitting of interiors.

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Architecture | Invisibility – Out of Sight

A museum - Sergei Tchoban 1/3

Sergei Tchoban is an outstanding architect, and the same applies to his drawing talents. The German architect with Russian roots has provided three drawings to enrich our thematic block on "Invisibility - Out of Sight" and in so doing offered a completely new perspective on the theme.

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Creativity moods 1: Does art come from studios?

by Anne Haun

At the moment everything produced seems to be committed to being creative. But where, and under what conditions is it possible to work creatively? Is it true that art is still produced in studios? Has our idea of what a studio is fundamentally changed?

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Audi Urban Future Award 2010

The automobile manufacturer Audi, in collaboration with Stylepark, has established a competition for the Audi Urban Future Award. In the first year of the competition, six internationally renowned architectural firms will develop scenarios and visions for the city of the future under consideration of issues of mobility. The results will be presented in Venice parallel to the Architecture Biennale.

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More than the sum of little houses

by Katharina Altemeier

Expectations were very high when Herzog & de Meuron were commissioned to build the domicile for Vitra's Home Collection in Weil am Rhein. The VitraHaus has now been completed and it is astonishing. The array of houses stacked one on top of the other is much more than just the sum of little houses.

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