--- title: "Magazin" url: "https://www.stylepark.com/en/news" language: "en" type: "magazin" page: 45 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 Architectural pinpricks 7/2/2021 Since 2014 the Chinese architect Xu Tiantian and her studio DnA has implemented more than 20 projects in rural China. Like architectural acupuncture, the small, modest projects are intended to help give villages a future once again. The “Songyang Story” is impressive – and full of hope.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/xu-tiantian-songyang-story-china) [FEATURED Staying flexible 7/1/2021 With the “dito Workbench” Gumpo is expanding its successful collection "normcore" by Relvāokellermann.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/gumpo-dito-workbench-normcore-relvaokellermann) [COLUMN Social gas station in the mice bunker 6/30/2021 As a team, the gallery owner Johann König and the architect Arno Brandlhuber bring new wind into the discussion about the preservation as well as the further use of the "mice bunker" and the Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology in Berlin Lichterfelde.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/maeusebunker-berlin-concrete-brutalism-brandlhuber) [DESIGN Braun hybrid 6/29/2021 The Bröhan Museum in Berlin is currently showing an exemplary digital programme to accompany the exhibition "Braun 100".](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/braun-broehan-museum-design-guide) [ARCHITECTURE In the light of the south 6/28/2021 With "The Tower", Frank Gehry has created the heart of the new LUMA Arles cultural centre in the south of France and at the same time built the city a landmark that attracts international attention.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/maja-hoffmann-frank-gehry-luma-arles-tower) [ARCHITECTURE Architecture to be 6/25/2021 "TinyBe" seeks a dialogue between art, science, architecture and business with residential sculptures and offers visitors the option to stay in them temporarily for an individual experience of space.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/tinybe-living-in-a-sculpture-frankfurt-darmstadt-wiesbaden) [FEATURED Elegant journey back in time 6/25/2021 Petersen Tegl provided the cladding for a new skyscraper in Manhattan with hand-crafted bricks that lend the concrete building an unusual elegance.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/petersen-tegl-ddg-partners-180e88-new-york-city) [SUSTAINABILITY Greener densification 6/24/2021 With “Carré Belge” ingenhoven architects working in collaboration with Proximus Real Estate AG have created a new quarter in Cologne’s downtown area that should improve the city’s microclimate through densification and urban greening.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/ingenhoven-architects-carre-belge-cologne-densification-green) [STYLEPARK BURGBAD Daring to differ 6/24/2021 burgbad is presenting its most important product innovations and additions to its range in a new and original way with the digital 360-degree tour burgbad@home and an exclusive show truck that is currently touring Europe.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/burgbad-hybrider-messestand-roadshow) [ARCHITECTURE Melancholic euphoria 6/23/2021 Lina Ghotmeh’s Stone Garden is a synthesis of architecture and archaeology, of rocks and flora as well as a highly emotional homage to the inhabitants’ will to survive in the architect’s catastrophe-ridden home town Beirut.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/stone-garden-beirut-lina-ghotmeh-architecture) [DESIGN Bette 2021: BETTEAIR 6/22/2021 A shower tile that is flush with the bathroom floor: with "BetteAir", Dominik Tesseraux has created a shower tile for Bette that can be glued directly onto the screed.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/bette-bette-air-novelty) [DESIGN Martinelli Luce 2021: ELASTICA 6/21/2021 With "Elastica", Innocenzo Rifino and Diego Rossi from Studio Habits span the light across the room and from the floor to the ceiling. The luminaire can be controlled with a simple hand movement.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/martinelli-luce-2021-elastica) [DESIGN The future is now 6/21/2021 The Future of Living: On the initiative of the Center za kreativnost – the Center for Creativity in Ljubljana – the exhibition on contemporary design from Slovenia is currently touring Europe’s design metropolises. On show are sustainable, innovative, functional but also socially committed creative projects.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/design-slovenia-center-za-kreativnost-donar-grupo-h-mashoni-design-studio-the-future-of-living) [DESIGN Greetings from the kitchen 6/18/2021 What's new in the kitchen? Which materials, which styles are in demand? What current ideas are the creatives and manufacturers offering? We have put together a selection of the news for you as part of our Novelties Stage.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/kitchen-novelties-stage-cooking-novelties) [DESIGN Harmonic tension 6/18/2021 Studio Besau-Marguerre has created an interior design concept for the workrooms of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe MK&G in Hamburg that combines different trends.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/besau-marguerre-mkg-interior-design-memphis) [FAIRS & EVENTS Revitalise city 6/17/2021 On 22 and 23 June 2021, the German Institute for Urban Architecture will broadcast the 11th Conference on the Beauty and Viability of the City from Frankfurt am Main as an online live stream.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/inner-city-life-german-institute-for-urban-architecture-livestream) [STYLEPARK VILLEROY & BOCH Modern twist 6/17/2021 Villeroy & Boch has fitted out the bathrooms of the “Kaunas”, a historic 4-star superior hotel in Lithuania and in the process combined contemporary design with clever details that make for maximum comfort.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/villeroy-boch-superior-hotel-kaunas-litauen-subway-2.0-architectura-metal-rim-oberon-o-novo-vita) [INTERVIEWS Architecture of encounter 6/16/2021 The Serpentine Pavilion opened in London's Kensington Gardens recently. In an interview, Sumayya Vally, founder of the Counterspace office from Johannesburg, explains how London's migrant communities inspired her design.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/sumayya-vally-counterspace-serpentine-pavillon) [FEATURED Constantly reliable 6/16/2021 With his new Axel-Springer building Rem Koolhaas has created a landmark in Berlin that thanks to its radically modern architecture stands for the move towards a new way of working. The comprehensive supply and drainage system in the heart of the building is courtesy of Geberit.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/geberit-oma-rem-kolhaas-axel-springer) [FEATURED Great Diversity of Colors 6/15/2021 Colored faucets – in the mid-1970s, they amounted to a revolution in the market. For Italian design workshop Fantini, they marked the dawn of a new age in several respects: Their “I Balocchi” mixer, which translates as “the toys”, designed in 1977 together with Davide Mercatali and Paolo Pedrizzetti, represented the company’s entry into the world of design.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/fantini-colour-metal-fittings) [ART Reverberating images 6/14/2021 For decades photographer Ursula Edelmann documented the reconstruction of Frankfurt/Main as well as its economic and cultural boom. To mark her 95th birthday KunstRaum Bernusstrasse is presenting a retrospective of her architecture, art and object photography. In this interview she gives us an insight into her work.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/ursula-edelmann-photography-stylepark) [FEATURED A table for all situations in life 6/14/2021 Werner Aisslinger has designed the robust "1140" table for Thonet that boasts a host of ingenious details. It has excellent chances of becoming something that accompanies its owner through all the various phases in life.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/werner-aisslinger-thonet-1140) [INTERVIEWS A new approach to material 6/11/2021 The focus of Sofia Souidi's work is clearly on one of the greatest challenges of our time – it is about sustainability. In 2020, she was nominated for the German Sustainability Award for Design. As artist in residence at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research, the designer is currently working on her project "Superwood".](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/sofia-souidi-material-research-sustainability) [DESIGN IVC Commercial 2021: BLURRED EDGE 854 6/11/2021 Robust and colourfast: The carpet tile "Blurred Edge 854" is one of the latest novelties from IVC Commercial.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/ivc-commercial-2021-blurred-edge-854) [OBITUARY For him architecture was always an art 6/10/2021 On the death of architect Gottfried Böhm.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/gottfried-boehm-architect-obituary) [MOBILITY Algae instead of diesel 6/10/2021 To make its cars with internal combustion engines carbon-neutral, Mazda is supporting research into a biofuel made from algae.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/mazda-fuel-algae-sustainability) [HEIMTEXTIL 2021 Sustainability for reference 6/9/2021 The Heimtextil 'Future Materials Library' digital material library shows trend-setting materials for interior design.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/future-materials-library-heimtextil-franklin-till) [STYLEPARK PEDRALI Stylishly functional 6/9/2021 Jorge Pensi has collaborated with Italian furniture makers Pedrali for over a decade now – his classic “Ara” chair celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The architect and designer has just created flexible solutions for a new world of work in the form of the “Ypsilon Connect” room divider and the “Temps low back” task chair.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/pedrali-jorge-pensi-temps-ara-ypsilon-connect) [FEATURED Surfaces with depth 6/8/2021 Italian manufacturer Cleaf seeks to spur the creativity of architects with its "Shaping Surfaces" competition. The prize in the first edition went to Campos Costa Arquitetos whose design for a concept store in Lisbon invites people on a journey of discovery.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/cleaf-shaping-surfaces-competition-campos-costa-arquitetos) [DESIGN Freedom in experiment 6/8/2021 The Canadian artist, designer and architect Omer Arbel moves between disciplines with his creative works, creating extraordinary objects and buildings that fascinate and offer a new experience of space. Phaidon Verlag recently published the first monograph on his work.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/omer-arbel-monograph-art-design-architecture-phaidon) [FEATURED Golden sound boxes 6/8/2021 The fact that rehearsal rooms need not be drab boxes despite their sound insulation is demonstrated by two pavilions in Berlin. A contributory factor here is the facade made of KME’s “TECU(R) Gold” which transforms the two buildings into glowing sound bodies.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/kme-tecu-pavilions-udk-practice-rooms) [MICROLIVING The final days 6/7/2021 It was meant to be demolished back in 2007 but was saved by the global economic crisis. Now, though, its days are truly numbered: Anyone wanting to take a last look at architect Kisho Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo will have to hurry. The 1972 tower, one of the masterpieces of Japanese Metabolism, is just about still standing.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/nakagin-capsule-tower-tokio-kisho-kurokawa-demolition) [DESIGN Camira 2021: CAMIRA KNIT 6/7/2021 "Camira Knit" by Camira produces technical textiles that offer covers with a perfect fit and high-quality design thanks to advanced technology.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/camira-2021-camira-knit) [ARCHITECTURE A Metabolized Storage Space 6/3/2021 With the new Kunsthaus in Göttingen Atelier ST has finally helped old plans for an even older context to come to fruition.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/atelier-st-kunsthaus-goettingen) [FAIRS & EVENTS Berlin: Looking ahead 6/2/2021 Berlin Urban Tech Summit 2021 – that's the name of the virtual half-day conference that starts today at 2 pm under the motto "The city of the future using the Urban Tech Republic as an example".](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/berlin-urban-tech-summit-urban-tech-republic-berlin-tegel) - [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) - … - [43](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=43) - [44](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=44) - [45](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=45) - [46](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=46) - [47](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=47) - … - [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)