Magazine for architecture, design and art

Ten Sweet Years

9/15/2016

From the Margareten district to Brno, from copperplate etching to industrial design: Vienna Design Week 2016 is celebrating its tenth anniversary from September 30 through to October 9 in a true-to-form colorful fashion, promising to inspire visitors with a mélange of popular projects and challenging topics.

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On-board islands of relaxation

9/13/2016

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More than just cooking

9/13/2016

DESIGN

Alibaba and the Black Cloud

9/13/2016

The 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 hands

9/12/2016

Forget that endless driving around the block – soon cars will be finding their own parking spaces, all on their own.

ARCHITECTURE

Where changes are lived

9/9/2016

Right 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 traffic

9/9/2016

Multistory carparks are the storage medium of the automobile age. Here, traffic comes to a planned halt.

ART

Arty Advertizing

9/6/2016

Museum 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 terrace

9/6/2016

Photographer 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

9/6/2016

For 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.

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Less is more

9/5/2016

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Sunny ascent

9/5/2016

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Muppets in the office

9/5/2016

Bertram 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 criminals

9/5/2016

In light of recent events, a look at the criminalization of design research

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Looking out over Lake Garda

8/30/2016

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Monsieur...’s vacation

8/29/2016

So 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?

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Monsieur...’s vacation

8/23/2016

In 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.

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Lobby for Oxford

8/16/2016

Herzog & 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.