--- title: "Magazin" url: "https://www.stylepark.com/en/news" language: "en" type: "magazin" page: 117 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 [FAIRS & EVENTS Speed Pitch for the Audi Urban Future Award 2014 12/16/2013 Decide which US-Team of creative thinkers and enablers should take part at the Audi Urban Future Award 2014!The candidates in the speed pitch have widely differing interpretations of the data theme. Team 1 analyzes the question of which mobility services people want. Team 2 puts its faith in research results from the field of gamification. Team 3’s thesis is that data can create precious space in combination with technologies for cities and their residents.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/speed-pitch-for-the-audi-urban-future-award-2014) [DESIGN With merry wishes 12/15/2013 Our Stylepark team gathered, snapped shots and committed them to paper: Best wishes for a happy holiday season and a joyous new year!](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/with-merry-wishes) [ARCHITECTURE Revitalization at the touch of a switch 12/13/2013 It was not so much aesthetic architectural approaches that were called for as temporary solutions with a socio-cultural touch: For the second time Berlin has challenged Europe’s architects to submit entries for the “Urban Intervention Award”. A prize somewhere between “cute” and “best practice”.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/revitalization-at-the-touch-of-a-switch) [ARCHITECTURE Incompleted: Frankfurt at a glance 12/11/2013 On behalf of Stylepark, the Director of Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) takes a close look at DOM Publishers’ new “Architectural Guide to Frankfurt/Main”.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/incompleted-frankfurt-at-a-glance) [FAIRS & EVENTS Domotex & Stylepark: Rolling out the carpet 12/11/2013 “Innovations@Domotex” is a new concept that prepares the ground for architects and designers in the run-up to and at the upcoming Domotex. The platform curated by Stylepark offers plenty of possibilities here, including a special website, a trend forum, lectures, guided tours and a pocket-size brochure.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/domotex-stylepark-rolling-out-the-carpet) [FEATURED Marbrerie Lampertz 12/10/2013](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/marbrerie-lampertz) [DESIGN Cantonal, red, tricky 12/8/2013 Moritz Schmid, This Weber and Jörg Boner represent a new generation of Swiss designers, who are beginning to step out from behind the shadows of design heavyweights such as Alfredo Häberli and Hannes Wettstein. A tour of their workshop gives you a great idea of their creative work/output.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/cantonal-red-tricky) [FAIRS & EVENTS Precise, coherent, Zwicky 12/6/2013 Whether it’s Max Bill’s “Ulmer Hocker” in red or storage boxes that call to mind overseas trunks: The interior design show “Neue Räume” presents all things familiar – in a fresh look. A concept that goes down a real treat with the Swiss clientele.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/precise-coherent-zwicky) [INTERVIEWS Rethinking surfaces 12/5/2013 Jürgen Mayer H. is the brain behind the extraordinary surface designs set to catch the eye at “Innovations@Domotex", on show as part of the upcoming Domotex. Oliver G. Hamm chatted with the Berlin-based architect about exhibition architecture and the impact the 1970s have had on his creative work.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/rethinking-surfaces) [ARCHITECTURE On hold – The intangible legacy of the past decade 12/4/2013 The 2008 crisis resulted in a large number of planning operations being suspended. Will the pre-crisis boom go down in the annals of history as an aberration, or prove only to be a precursor of things to come?](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/on-hold-ndash-the-intangible-legacy-of-the-past-decade) [FAIRS & EVENTS Floor studies engaging the senses 12/3/2013 For a long time floors attracted little attention, if any. Thankfully, those days are over. Things are looking up in the world of flooring. Which is great news, and not just for the eye.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/floor-studies-engaging-the-senses) [INTERVIEWS Carpet design as the pinnacle 12/1/2013 Steffen Kehrle has landed on the floor. Or the carpet, to be precise. For “Flooring Deluxe”, the special exhibition at this year’s Domotex, the designer teamed up with Dura and together they produced creations that call to mind the paintings by Jackson Pollock. In conversation with Nora Khereddine, Kehrle explains why this collaboration is here to stay.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/carpet-design-as-the-pinnacle) [FAIRS & EVENTS São Paulo: Using city, making city 11/29/2013 Instead of foregrounding architects and architecture, the X. São Paulo Architecture Biennale addresses the cities and transforms the Brazilian metropolis itself into one gigantic exhibition space. Our author Isabel Martinez Abascal set off for Stylepark and visited the Biennial sites, discovering many controversial city views along the way.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/saeo-paulo-using-city-making-city) [INTERVIEWS Grasping carpets 11/29/2013 Domotex, second time. For the next round in January Stefan Diez is back on board. This time as the chairman of the jury of the newly-created “Innovations@Domotex” platform. The Munich-based designer chats here about his renewed involvement, the oohs and aahs of floor coverings, and his preference for made-to-fit, hand-made carpets.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/grasping-carpets) [ART Over-the-counter masterpieces 11/27/2013 A year ago Amsterdam’s Rijksmusum launched its Rijksstudio, an online platform that allows users to download images of the museum's artworks for free and edit them at will. Sellout or seductive?](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/over-the-counter-masterpieces) [ARCHITECTURE Beautiful homes rising from the dust 11/24/2013 Neat glossy pictures of gorgeous buildings and smart interiors shape the face of architecture in today’s media age. But if you take the plunge and treat your house or apartment to a makeover, you will soon find yourself confronted with noise, dust, dirt – and those who cause it.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/beautiful-homes-rising-from-the-dust) [FAIRS & EVENTS New threads and colors 11/22/2013 At Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg you can admire how artistic woven and knotted products can be – and how they can grace installations, canvases and house façades. The “Art & Textiles” exhibition featuring works from Beuys to Richter is more than merely another thread in the argument.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/new-threads-and-colors) [FEATURED The communicative office 11/21/2013 Crucial to the office world of today is an inviting ambience and direct communication routes, as were realized by local.ch for its new facility in Zurich, using furniture by Lista Office LO.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/the-communicative-office) [DESIGN Functional, with style 11/20/2013 The “to-go” mentality of today’s globalized world calls for fashion that affords maximum freedom of movement and stylistic diversity. Couturiers at the summer 2014 “Sport Couture” thus presented zestful color combinations and unusual material mixes. Part 2 of our catwalk analysis.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/functional-with-style) [FEATURED Celebrating 40 years of comfiness 11/19/2013](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/celebrating-40-years-of-comfiness) [INTERVIEWS Battle of innovations 11/19/2013 Domotex is set to undergo yet another makeover in 2014. At the press conference for the new concept Robert Volhard spoke with Jochen Köckler, Board Member at Deutsche Messe AG, about trade fairs and “Innovations@Domotex”, the new communications program Deutsche Messe AG has co-developed with Stylepark.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/battle-of-innovations) [DESIGN Certainties – shaken, not stirred 11/17/2013 In his discerning but chatty volume, Michael Erlhoff draws our attention to the potential and ideas innate in design. A book for anyone who views aesthetic debate as something more than just a matter of theoretical edification.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/certainties-shaken-not-stirred) [FEATURED 35 degrees in Vienna 11/14/2013](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/35-degrees-in-vienna) [FAIRS & EVENTS The pattern that connects 11/13/2013 Patterns, once shunned by Modernism, have long since become ubiquitous in art, architecture and design. A noteworthy exhibition in Lingen explores the question what makes patterns so attractive in all these fields – and why they are so easy on the eyes.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/the-pattern-that-connects) [FEATURED Google Docks 11/12/2013 All the colors of the rainbow – in Google’s new Dublin premises the shades of the familiar logo dominate the interior, which features furniture from Pedrali.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/google-docks) [ART A panoramic view – with obstructions 11/10/2013 Imagine roadblocks, barbed wire obstacles and sandbag barricades against a backdrop of deserted ruins: A leading member of Magnum Photos, Josef Koudelka took his panoramic camera to document the landscape along the route of the barrier that separates Israel and Palestine. His latest volume “The Wall” presents these images in an album that is as somber as it is impressive.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/a-panoramic-view-with-obstructions) [ARCHITECTURE Prêt-à-porter living 11/8/2013 Turning the crisis into an opportunity: Spain’s architects are discovering prefab homes as a cost-efficient and attractive alternative. With their transportable miniature dwellings Madrid firms “Abaton” and “Sistema Modulab” are spearheading this new trend.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/pret-a-porter-living) [ARCHITECTURE New found design 11/6/2013 On a rocky outcrop of Newfoundland, where there’s nothing between you and the Artic, the Fogo Island Inn has since May of this year proved that good design can foster tourism and thus create jobs.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/new-found-design) [ARCHITECTURE MEGALOPOLI(TIC)S 11/6/2013 Cities are the main arena in which globalization takes physical form. So far the city has failed to register as a political entity in its own right. A pleading for the world as an archipelago of city-states.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/megalopolitics) [FEATURED Banking in South Africa 11/5/2013 Allen International is the brain behind what could quite easily become the “bank branch of the future”: The planning consultants opted for interactive displays, computer terminals and a meticulously planned lighting concept boasting luminaires from Reggiani.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/banking-in-south-africa) [ARCHITECTURE See you at the bus stop 11/3/2013 The small village of Krumbach in Austria’s Vorarlberg region provides the stage for seven of architecture’s biggest names, including Wang Shu und Sou Fujimoto, to put their ideas of what goes to make a perfect bus shelter into practice. The first “Wartehüsle”, as the Austrians call it, has already been put up.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/see-you-at-the-bus-stop) [ARCHITECTURE Hallingdal and its successors 11/1/2013 What would Verner Panton’s furniture be like without the bright fabrics from Kvadrat? From the very outset, the Danes collaborated closely with designers to create striking highlights. Now there’s a book describing the company, which is one of the world’s leading makers of home textiles today. A glance behind the scene.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/hallingdal-and-its-successors) [FEATURED Subtlety and finesse 10/31/2013](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/subtlety-and-finesse) [ARCHITECTURE Schoolyard hitting it BIG 10/30/2013 Bjarke Ingels Group architectural firm (or BIG for a not exactly modest acronym) also succeeds on the small scale. For a school complex in Hellerup nr. Copenhagen the architects dug deep to sink a new gym into the grounds of the old schoolyard. A walkable gigantic sculpture is the result.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/schoolyard-hitting-it-big) [ARCHITECTURE Swing to work 10/27/2013 When “NL Architects” redesigned the “NS Stations” Headquarters in Utrecht then also reinvented the working culture there. The individual office cells morphed into a well-thought out, deadpan and charming office environment.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/swing-to-work) - [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) - … - [115](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=115) - [116](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=116) - [117](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=117) - [118](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=118) - [119](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=119) - … - [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)