DESIGN Alibaba and the Black Cloud9/13/2016The future belongs to e-mobility, that much is certain. Whereas in the Global North people are mostly complaining about low ranges, in the South an e-car’s battery can be charged using solar energy while parked.
DESIGN Parking guided by invisible hands9/12/2016Forget that endless driving around the block – soon cars will be finding their own parking spaces, all on their own.
ARCHITECTURE Where changes are lived9/9/2016Right at the top of the parking garage at Berlin’s “Neukölln Arcaden”, for some years now the “Klunkerkranich” has happily existed in its very own urban biotope. A local meeting point, and not just for hipsters.
ARCHITECTURE Sow multistory carparks, harvest traffic9/9/2016Multistory carparks are the storage medium of the automobile age. Here, traffic comes to a planned halt.
ART Arty Advertizing9/6/2016Museum August Kestner is looking back at 70 years of advertising from Hanover – encountering many an avant-garde poster in the process.
ARCHITECTURE City landscape with car terrace9/6/2016Photographer Constantin Meyer’s new exhibition at Cologne’s Design Post is called “Parklandschaften”. Yet his images show places that aren’t especially idyllic: German multi-story car parks.
ARCHITECTURE Chemnitz showpiece 9/6/2016For a long time, the old railway station hall in Chemnitz was nothing more than a relic of East Germany. Now Grüntuch Ernst Architekten have transformed it into a pleasant, open and covered urban space.
FEATURED Muppets in the office9/5/2016Bertram Bihler designed his three office floors for the Swisscom TV in a restrained white, but added color accents with the office furniture from Lista Office LO.
DESIGN High-profile criminals9/5/2016In light of recent events, a look at the criminalization of design research
MAGAZINE Monsieur...’s vacation8/29/2016So what actually is a vacation? There’s no simply vacationing. You need approval. In the third part of our summer series our author asks: Where have architecture and design got to while we are on the road?
MAGAZINE Monsieur...’s vacation8/23/2016In the second part of our summer series the focus is on an atlas of unfinished places. It exclusively records those destinations which our author has never visited yet and will not manage to visit this summer either.
FEATURED Lobby for Oxford8/16/2016Herzog & de Meuron’s new building in Oxford captivates visitors with its purist selection of colors and materials, as well as the comfortable furnishings including chairs by Wilkhahn.
MAGAZINE Monsieur...’s vacation8/16/2016The sun’s shining, we’re on holiday, and have escaped everyday life. During the one or other leisurely hour we notices how many exciting questions raised in recent years have still not been answered. We’ve selected a few for you.
ARCHITECTURE Completely carefree8/9/2016Shopping malls are playing an every greater role in the architectural typology of commerce. An exhibition in Munich presents examples from all over the world.
ARCHITECTURE Apolda Anchorage8/8/2016Out on Modernism’s top deck: The young Egon Eiermann skillfully advanced the basic structure of a factory building in Thuringia. All that was lacking – a user for the restored icon.
ARCHITECTURE In the dunes of Fire Island8/8/2016Horace Gifford never made a secret of his homosexuality. He loved life on the beach and he loved some of his clients. His life is closely linked with the liberalization of homosexuality in the second half of the 20th century.
ART Konstantin’s study8/2/2016Konstantin Grcic recently presented five furniture sculptures at Galerie Kreo in Paris. They create a space in a space and it is no coincidence that they are all called Hieronymus.
ARCHITECTURE When the future began to glow7/29/2016Karl Hugo Schmölz is among the most important post-War German architecture photographers. But was forgotten for many years. Now a digital photobook places his elegant images on our screens.
ARCHITECTURE Pyramid or just a bunker?7/28/2016With the Switch House, the Tate Modern recently opened its long-cherished extension on the South Bank of the Thames. So what exactly have Herzog & de Meuron built?
ARCHITECTURE The draughtsman’s contract7/26/2016An exhibition in Berlin offers you an unadulterated view of the urban scenery in some Japanese anime films.
ARCHITECTURE Berlin Particle Theory7/24/2016Roger Bundschuh dissects a house into three parts. To create any number of views outwards and inwards.
DESIGN The Magnificent Seven Friends7/22/2016Dresden’s Kunstgewerbemuseum has invited seven international designers to Schloss Pillnitz to contemplate friendship in design in an age of omnipresent rivalry.
ARCHITECTURE Architecture and possibility7/19/2016Was the “Endless House” the original model for architecture without properties? The Museum für angewandte Kunst in Vienna is devoting an exhibition called “Life Visions” to the visionary Frederick Kiesler.
ARCHITECTURE Space capsules are passé7/18/2016When the cities learnt to walk in superstructures – people stayed where they were, left to their own devices. Is this why yesterday’s future visions and utopias are suddenly back en vogue in architecture?
ARCHITECTURE Higher stakes7/18/2016Not only has Constant’s archive been unpacked in The Hague: the show at the Gemeentemuseum also considers the future of a “New Babylon”.
ARCHITECTURE One huge nightmare7/18/2016Superstudio was consciously radical and critiqued progress. Barbara-Brigitte Mak and Ludwig Engel talked with Gabriele Mastrigli, curator of the jubilee exhibition, about the group’s legacy and importance today.
ARCHITECTURE Superarchitettura7/18/201650 years ago, one of the most influential and radical architecture groups of the 1970s was founded in Florence: Superstudio. Rome’s Maxxi Museum celebrates the anniversary with a big retrospective.
ARCHITECTURE Tradition creates future7/12/2016Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) is showcasing Studio Mumbai in a major exhibition in Frankfurt/Main, in which it demonstrates how contemporary construction can be a successful symbiosis of Indian tradition and Western Modernism.
ARCHITECTURE The barkeeper and the penguin7/11/2016Fast-growing Frankfurt/Main now has an unusual governing coalition of Conservatives, Social Democrats and Greens. A look at the coalition’s policies on urban design and the city reveals: sadly no vision.