The city with the spinning wheel Tomás Saraceno’s “Cloud Cities” currently occupy Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof as if they were some utopia. Yet many of the seemingly spaceless and timeless spheres are there not just to be seen, but to be entered. While these transparent structures are fascinating from the inside and the outside, the exhibition as a whole does not succeed in more closely defining Saraceno’s artistic position. Yet it’s certainly worth a visit.

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Islands made of old bottles and floating mosques 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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Exploring the dimensions Data protection patterns, and columns of numbers and letters without their content spelling a meaning, form the basis of "Rapport", an intervention by architect Jürgen Mayer H. at Berlinische Galerie. Outsized the symbols spread across the floor and walls to form an "experimental spatial structure".

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+++ NEWSTICKER #202 | 2011 +++ Iceland and Architecture?
Architecture Film Festival
Frankfurter Book Fair
Specialist convention on the city of tomorrow
Design with the Other 90%: Cities
Dutch Design Week

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Staged science or twixt illusion and structure “Maniera Moderna” at Haus der Kunst in Munich is dedicated to the multi-faceted oeuvre of Italian architect, designer and photographer Carlo Mollino. The exhibition is not the first to address the Turin polymath’s remarkable oeuvre. But it is certainly the most ambitious, as it focuses on Mollino’s oeuvre as a whole.

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Popcorn in the museum For people already familiar with Apple, there are not likely to be many surprises in the exhibition “Stylectrical – von Elektrodesign, das Geschichte schreibt” (Stylectrical – on history-making, electrical design) at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Hamburg. It is a bit like going to the movies with mountains of popcorn. It does leaves nobody any the wiser but some people come away with a pleasant feeling.

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Fill up here! They have been fueling automotive advancement for around 100 years now: gas stations. In Christof Vieweg's informative and richly illustrated book "Volltanken bitte!" we discover that the first gas station was a pharmacy, which brands were once sold, when certain architectural models emerged and what particularly attractive stations look like.

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Open systems for urban mobility Directly prior to the beginning of the 64th IAA International Motor Show in Frankfurt, the first “Audi Urban Future Summit” was held at The Squaire at Frankfurt Airport, curated by Stylepark. International experts from a variety of disciplines spent the day discussing Tag possible approaches to mobility in the cities of tomorrow.

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+++ NEWSTICKER #201 | 2011 +++ Qubique - A new furniture fair in Berlin
neue räume 11 - Furniture show in Zurich
Building with Timber - Exhibition in Munich
Terence Conran - The Way We Live Now
Graft - Distinct Ambiguity

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We demand clear standards for language! Mottos, slogans, brand claims and ad lines – on the stands at the 64th IAA international motor show you can read the one or other pithy sentence, and the one or other piece of nonsense. We’ve compiled the best of the best and worst for you.

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The new futurism is white Crisis, what crisis. At the 64th IAA international motor show, the industry is looking to the future with confidence. So how exactly do the designers think the auto of tomorrow will look? You can get an idea by casting a glance at the trade-fair orchestrations and the latest concept cars.

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+++ NEWSTICKER #200 | 2011 +++ +++ Modernism in Miniature +++
+++ Exhibiting Design +++
+++ Eames Words +++
+++ Exhibition on Hannes Wettstein +++
+++ Rethinking Mies +++

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Yesterday's tomorrow When developing new models today, existing parameters play the central role: What will be defined by statutory norms and regulations, today and tomorrow? What strategies do manufacturers and their individual brands pursue? Here is a small selection of concepts and studies which were often primarily concerned with changing notions of convenience and usage.

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Down with the window! And out with your elbow! Cruising down the street with your elbow out the car window is a leisurely matter. A gesture that could be read as rebellion, or as communication. Will this youthful stance finally have to take a back seat in an era of fully air-conditioned cars?

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Ten hypotheses on automobile design In mid-September the 64th IAA, the International Car Show, opens for business in Frankfurt. Alongside new drive technologies, today design is crucial for the success of a new model. So what are the car designers’ preferences and methods? Ten hypotheses on the current state of play.

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Wheels before feet Traffic in China is steadily on the increase. Naturally, you find cars, mopeds and buses there, too but everything works just a little differently. Car hooters sound like house buzzers, for example and taxi drivers cannot read maps.

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+++ NEWSTICKER #199 | 2011 +++ +++ Helsinki Design Week +++
+++ Vienna Design Week +++
+++ Tomás Saraceno: Cloud Cities +++
+++ Exhibition about the architect Ernst Neufert +++
+++ Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 +++
+++ 24th World Congress of Architecture in Tokyo +++


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Not only higher About half of all the high-rises that stand in the cities of this world have been built in the last decade. Curator Andres Janser sets out in his show "High-Rises - Dream and Reality" at Museum für Gestaltung Zürich to explore what is behind this boom.

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