--- title: "Magazin" url: "https://www.stylepark.com/en/news" language: "en" type: "magazin" page: 112 description: "The Stylepark Magazine reports on outstanding projects and products, industry-relevant events and personalities from design, architecture and art. Read more:" image: "https://www.stylepark.com/apple-touch-icon.png" --- # Magazin [ARCHITECTURE Simple city life 6/6/2014 “Yourtopia” is the name Dutch architects SeARCH have given their pavilion located next to Het Nieuwe Instituut. An urban “Walden” and a call for us to leave our comfort zones.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/simple-city-life) [ARCHITECTURE Resisting fitting the grid 6/4/2014 “A structure I have always wanted to demolish” was the title of a design assignment that Arno Lederer gave several times at Stuttgart and Karlsruhe universities. Not that the architect had always been hell-bent on tearing down the buildings belonging to the Stuttgarter Hospitalhof complex. Now he has had them demolished after all – and in their place realized a very convincing alternative that exudes nothing but perfection. Almost.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/resisting-fitting-the-grid) [FAIRS & EVENTS Gondola! Gondola! 6/3/2014 June 7 sees the opening of the 14th Architecture Biennale in Venice. Rem Koolhaas has chosen the basics of building as the main theme, along with “Absorbing Modernity 1914 – 2014”. So whom has gondoliere Rem welcomed on-board for the ride?](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/gondola-gondola) [INTERVIEWS Mr Hashimoto’s Chou Chou effect 6/1/2014 Yukio Hashimoto is one of Japan’s top interior designers and imbues hotels, spas and restaurants with a very special look and feel. Martina Metzner met the architect and asked him how he blends tradition with modern aspects, and why restaurants need dramatic lighting effects.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/mr-hashimotos-chou-chou-effect) [ARCHITECTURE Supercube reloaded 5/30/2014 The architects at Dutch firm Personal Architecture planned the partial refurbishment of the cube complex that Piet Blom built in 1980s Rotterdam. Now the “Supercubes” have been reintegrated into Rotterdam’s urban fabric and society.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/supercube-reloaded) [ARCHITECTURE Budapest concrete 5/26/2014 Budapest’s fourth metro line opened this spring. Hopes of additional urban development projects are associated with this infrastructure project.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/budapest-concrete) [INTERVIEWS High density alone is not enough to have a city 5/25/2014 On the occasion of the fifth annual conference on global urbanism at the Columbia University, New York, Catriona McLaughlin talked to thinker Saskia Sassen about the relation between invisible and visible mobility, the power of open-source-systems and her ongoing research on “urbanizing technology”.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/high-density-alone-is-not-enough-to-have-a-city) [FAIRS & EVENTS Of ants, data donators and Ferris wheels 5/23/2014 In the Audi-Forum in Ingolstadt the teams in this year’s Audi Urban Future Award allowed the public a first look at their research.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/of-ants-data-donators-and-ferris-wheels) [FAIRS & EVENTS Super interfaces and super trains 5/21/2014 Big Data, sharing systems and super-trains: At the “Mobilities in Cities” conference in New York urban planners, architects and transportation experts met to swap ideas on past, present and future mobility.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/super-interfaces-and-super-trains) [ARCHITECTURE The dreamed-up house 5/19/2014 With the Director’s Villa and the Moholy-Nagy House the ensemble of Gropius’ master houses in Dessau is complete again – and that includes a wall and the Mies van der Rohe kiosk. Repairs, reconstruction or radical reinterpretation, ghastly houses or gesamtkunstwerk, experiment or irritant?](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/the-dreamed-up-house) [FAIRS & EVENTS Transport, not ecstasy 5/18/2014 Can a KIA “Picanto” write design history? Is there even any justification for cars’ continued existence in the future? Journalist Niklas Maak, philosopher Martin Gessmann and architect Max Schwitalla sat down in Cologne to discuss the most popular form of auto-motion.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/transport-not-ecstasy) [FAIRS & EVENTS On Spokes and Shadows – Spokes by Studio García Cumini for Foscarini 5/16/2014 Designers Vicente García Jiménez and Cinzia Cumini presented their new magical piece for Foscarini in Milan: A spacious ceiling-mounted luminaire that is thoroughly well conceived technologically speaking, and entrancingly light.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/on-spokes-and-shadows-spokes-by-studio-garcia-cumini-for-foscarini) [ARCHITECTURE Disc music 5/14/2014 In 1996, Austro-American architect Raimund Abraham designed his “House for Music”. Today, 18 years later, the unusual home for music is now built – on the missile base of Stiftung Insel Hombroich nr. Neuss in the Rhineland.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/disc-music) [ARCHITECTURE May we introduce Rupert? 5/12/2014 In an idyllic countryside near Lithuania's capital Vilnius, the Rupert Art and Education Centre offers artists and designers a working retreat. It was designed by Audrius Ambrasas, one of the country’s most famous architects.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/may-we-introduce-rupert) [FAIRS & EVENTS On travels after dictation 5/11/2014 At long last it’s OK to like postmodern architecture again. Why? Found out in the exhibition “Mission: Postmodern – Heinrich Klotz and the DAM Chamber of Marvels” at Frankfurt’s Deutsches Architekturmuseum.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/on-travels-after-dictation) [INTERVIEWS Leif in the park 5/9/2014 Takashi Ueno, Mamoru Naito, Keizaburo Honda and Mizuho Naito are the creative minds behind Leif.designpark. Uta Abendroth met the Japanese team to talk about nature as a source of inspiration, their strong links with Europe and about sweeping sofas in Japanese apartments.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/leif-in-the-park) [FAIRS & EVENTS A chair, as taut as a bow Kyudo by Konstantin Grcic for Magis 5/7/2014 Konstantin Grcic has fallen in love with archery, at least as regards materials. For “Kyudo”, a chair he’s designed for Magis and which went on show at the Salone in Milan, he combined beechwood veneer and carbon laminate.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/a-chair-as-taut-as-a-bow-kyudo-by-konstantin-grcic-for-magis) [FAIRS & EVENTS Harmonie très française Uncino by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Mattiazzi 5/6/2014 The Bouroullec brothers have once again demonstrated why they are one of the driving forces in design. “Uncino” is their second chair for Mattiazzi, and boasts a harmonious combination of wood and metal.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/harmonie-tres-francaise-uncino-by-ronan-and-erwan-bouroullec-for-mattiazzi) [INTERVIEWS Oliver Elser on a postmodern mission 5/5/2014 On May 9, 2014 the exhibition “Mission: Postmodern” opens at Deutsches Architekturmuseum. Sophia Walk talked with Oliver Elser, the show’s curator, about Heinrich Klotz, his chamber of marvels, and postmodernism.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/oliver-elser-on-a-postmodern-mission) [DESIGN Thonetology 5/4/2014 Can a show about Thonet bring any new insights? The Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Leipzig is hosting “Sit, Recline, Rock – Thonet Furniture” thru’ September 14, highlighting what chapters there are still to be discovered in the “Thonet saga”.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/thonetology) [ART Couture meets Collage 5/2/2014 Dries Van Noten is an idiosyncratic couturier who has never obeyed the laws of the fashion world and instead favors slowness and quality. Through August, Paris’ Musée des Arts Décoratifs is hosting an elaborately designed exhibition on his work tracing the art and fashion sources that inspired his unique creations.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/couture-meets-collage) [INTERVIEWS TXTMSG with Ross 4/29/2014 Ross Lovegrove presented his new chair “Diatom” in Milan at the Moroso booth. Adeline Seidel conducted a series of txt-msgs with him on his diatomic passions.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/txtmsg-with-ross) [ARCHITECTURE World panorama and digitalized top 4/28/2014 The days where information could simply be provided are long since over. Today the news is dished up, explained, elaborated on in depth, and commentary given. The design of news studios plays an important role in this regard. Among others, the new “Tagesschau” studio for Germany’s ARD channel shows just how many things can change around a news desk.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/world-panorama-and-digitalized-top) [INTERVIEWS Patricia is everywhere 4/27/2014 Once again, Patricia Urquiola was omnipresent in Milan. The reason is simple: Most established design brands, be it B&B Italia, Moroso, Glas Italia, Molteni, Mutina or Kvadrat, are featuring her products. Uta Abendroth spoke with the designer, who has chosen Milan as her home, about the innovations she is presenting at the Salone, prototypes in her own home, and the family factor.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/patricia-is-everywhere) [FEATURED Galeria Nedbalka 4/25/2014](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/galeria-nedbalka) [FAIRS & EVENTS Standalones, sapphires and a strudel king 4/25/2014 Found pieces instead of orchestrated spaces: Designs relating to the cool, cleansing liquid substance as are on view at the Salone del Bagno Milan and in the Fuori Salone showrooms, are rich in innovative materials and champion the familiar purist style elements.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/standalones-sapphires-and-a-strudel-king) [FAIRS & EVENTS Kitchen, channels and any amount of Ki 4/23/2014 EuroCucina, which runs parallel to Milan’s Salone del Mobile, offers furniture for people who would love to cook. And shows the latest status objects that straddle architecture and design. A tour.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/kitchen-channels-and-any-amount-of-ki) [FAIRS & EVENTS Having a coffee with Claudio Luti 4/23/2014 It is not yet ten in the morning and the first day of the fair, but Claudio Luti, President of Cosmit, the organizers of Salone del Mobile, is offering coffee. In the second year as president he continues to emphasize change.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/having-a-coffee-with-claudio-luti) [FAIRS & EVENTS French finesse Hermès Maison at Palazzo Serbelloni 4/23/2014 French fashion fabs presented dreams in leather at the Salone: “La Lanterne d’Hermès” by Yann Kersalé, “Pantographe” and “Harnais” by Michele de Lucchi and other re-editions of Jean-Michel Frank.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/french-finesse-hermes-maison-at-palazzo-serbelloni) [FAIRS & EVENTS Showered by golden time pieces – Citizen’s “Light is Time” installation 4/22/2014 At this year’s Triennale di Milano Citizen presented an enchanting installation composed of most delicate and minute watch parts, entitled “Light is Time”.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/showered-by-golden-time-pieces-citizens-light-is-time-installation) [FAIRS & EVENTS Autoethnography: Team Seoul 4/22/2014 Phone, city, house – everything becomes smart. Also cars? How does the digitalization of our everyday life change car functions and the requirements autos must meet? This is the focus the ethnographer Sung Gul Hwang, the urban planner Cho Taek Yeon and the product designer Yeongkyu Yoo.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/autoethnography-team-seoul) [FAIRS & EVENTS Mobilonomics: Team Boston 4/22/2014 How is urban space changing with piloted parking? Can one estimate what impact infrastructure projects will have on urban space? These are the questions the Boston team are tackling, in an effort to expand the limits of the mobility market.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/mobilonomics-team-boston) [FAIRS & EVENTS System optimization: Team Mexico 4/21/2014 Mexico City is renowned for its gridlocks. Each day, commuters spend more than two hours in traffic jams. José Castillo, Carlos Gershenson and Gabriella Gomez-Mont are hunting for solutions to this problem.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/system-optimization-team-mexico) [FAIRS & EVENTS Swarming behavior: Team Berlin 4/20/2014 If you need to get from A to B in Berlin you need above all two things: patience and time. Architect Max Schwitalla, neuroscientist Arndt Pechstein and transit-manager Paul Friedli want to change this, and in their efforts have investigated the swarming behavior of animals.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/swarming-behavior-team-berlin) [FAIRS & EVENTS Dance of the Machines 4/19/2014 Building automation with a difference: An industrial robot on Frankfurt’s Hauptwache plaza practices East Asian martial arts and prompts all manner of responses during the Luminale festival.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/dance-of-the-machines) - [1](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=1) - [2](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=2) - [3](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=3) - … - [110](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=110) - [111](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=111) - [112](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=112) - [113](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=113) - [114](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=114) - … - [154](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=154) - [155](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=155) - [156](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=156)