--- title: "Magazin" url: "https://www.stylepark.com/en/news" language: "en" type: "magazin" page: 79 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 [DESIGN Fun at work 9/22/2017 Anyone wanting to win out in the sector today needs not only a high-end design but also a precise business model, like the young L&Z company which has specialized in intelligent and well-designed office furniture.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/fun-at-work-lz-elements-daniel-lorch-aidin-zimmermann) [IAA 2017 Fridges on wheels? 9/21/2017 If car models become increasingly similar, then only the radiator grille and the marque logo remain to distinguish them.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/car-design-radiator-grille-electric-car-iaa2017) [ARCHITECTURE When the coworking space grows up 9/20/2017 With their “New Work Project,” the interior design studio The New Design Object has created an elegant co-working space in New York City.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/new-work-project-new-york-city-coworking-space-workspace) [FEATURED Showcase stairs and fair-faced concrete 9/19/2017 How to highlight the stairs in the no-frills architecture of Düsseldorf’s Heinrich Heine University is something Ado Lights achieves perfectly.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/ado-lights-showcase-stairs-fair-faced-concrete) [STYLEPARK MINI An icon, two characters 9/18/2017 Thomas Wagner spoke to Christopher Weil, in charge of Exterior Design at MINI, about the “MINI Electric Concept” and the “MINI John Cooper Works GP Concept”.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/mini-concept-cars-interview-christopher-weil) [DESIGN Living in the office 9/18/2017 Designers Aust & Amelung, Relvao Kellermann, Studio Pauline Deltour and Uwe Fischer have developed furniture for the “Cor Lab” that create comfy working zones.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/cor-lab-austamelung-relvaokellermann-studio-pauline-deltour-uwe-fischer) [FEATURED Back to the future 9/18/2017 The historic building of the “West-Brabants Archief” in the Dutch town of Bergen op Zoom has been brought up to the latest standard with Gira.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/gira-future-west-brabants-archiefs-switch) [FAIRS & EVENTS Cooking up a storm 9/18/2017 The “Vienna Design Week” has been a firm fixture for some years now. And it will get its 11th airing from September 29 through October 8.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/vienna-design-week-cooking-up-rudolfsheim) [FEATURED The best light 24/7 9/16/2017 The new newsroom at Pressehaus Stuttgart boasts a modern infrastructure – and that includes optimal illumination of the workstations by Waldmann products.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/waldmann-lavigo-pulse-lamp-light) [MOBILITY Living and Driving 9/15/2017 At motor shows, and only there, do studies go on display that never actually make it into mass production. If you’re going to dream, then in style is the motto at Renault, where the “Symbioz” concept car comes with no less than a house as the display cabinet.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/renault-concept-car-symbioz-house-architecture) [ARCHITECTURE Hyperspace 9/15/2017 The Heatherwick Studio has carved out the inside of an old grain silo to create an Expressionist sculpture that doubles up as the new “Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa” in Cape Town.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/heatherwick-zeitz-mocaa-cape-town) [DESIGN Rendezvous with the car culture 9/15/2017 “Grand Basel” is the name of the auto salon that is setting out to attract more than just collectors and design aficionados as of next year. The concept was presented in Basel – along with the one or other dream of a car.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/grand-basel-tradefair-car-design) [IAA 2017 The hitchhiker's guide to a mobile future 9/14/2017 “Volk ohne Wagen” (a people without a car) is the provocative title of a polemic by mobility researcher Stephan Rammler. What solutions does he actually have to offer for future mobility?](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/book-review-rammler-volk-ohne-wagen) [DESIGN What are they doing in there? 9/14/2017 Ettore Sottsass would have turned 100 years old today. We still know far too little about the designer and architect who looked beyond the walls of the familiar.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/designer-ettore-sottsass-100-birthday) [STYLEPARK SWAROVSKI An entirely new light 9/13/2017 Organically formed crystals that haven’t been cut or polished and which softly reflect the light: Swarovski Crystal Palace presents an entirely new development at the London Design Festival with “Luminous Reflections” by Tord Boontje.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/swarovski-luminous-reflections-tord-boontje-light) [FEATURED A cosmos for the inside world 9/12/2017 The "Cosmo" luminaire by next lighting gives the lobby for a center for plasmapheresis in Hungary a lighter feel.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/next-light-cosmos-lamps) [FEATURED Barefoot on oak 9/12/2017 Dinesen HeartOak floor planks create a cozy atmosphere in a holiday home on the island of Funen.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/dinesen-heartoak-floor-planks-fuenen) [IAA 2017 Which forms of settlement have which mobility needs? 9/11/2017 Do we need more sweeping changes to the interplay between building and mobility? Christian Gärtner from Urban Standards about the steps needed for a new mobility policy.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/interview-christian-gaertner-future-mobility) [STYLEPARK BETTE Customized showers 9/9/2017 The premium owner-occupied apartments of Friends Tower in Munich are fitted with showers by Bette.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/architecture-friends-tower-munich-bette-shower) [INTERVIEWS Freedom drives us on to greater things 9/8/2017 Daniel von Bernstorff and Robert Volhard spoke to Carlo Urbinati, founder and managing director of Italian luminaire maker Foscarini: about emotions, freedom, inspiration, and the creative world behind the products.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/interview-carlo-urbinati-foscarini) [DESIGN High on design 9/7/2017 Lifestyle choices now pervade many areas of our existence – even the consumption of drugs is no exception. Design has turned its eye to cannabis use.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/design-smoke-marihuana-pipes) [STYLEPARK SWAROVSKI No kitsch or nostalgia 9/6/2017 In the beginning it was all rough and ready. So how does a designer switch from plywood furniture to refined chandeliers? In the interview, Tord Boontje explains.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/swarovski-tord-boontje-luminous-reflections-light) [DESIGN Qian Jiang wins the Formex Nova Design Award 2017 9/5/2017 It is not just young designer Qian Jiang’s works that are outstanding – a look at the five other designers nominated is well worth while.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/qian-jiang-formex-nova-design-award) [FEATURED Let it flow 9/4/2017 The desks in the Heike Falkenberg’s "M-Line" series also set the tone in her own home.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/hund-moebelwerke-heike-falkenberg-m-line-schreibtisch) [ARCHITECTURE Fulfilling emptiness 9/3/2017 When in 1986 the two art collectors were looking for an architect to build them a holiday home on Mallorca, they happened to meet a young unknown architect from England: John Pawson. He did not design a house for their plot but a large castle – that can be rented today.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/neuendorf-house-mallorca-pawson-silvestrin) [ARCHITECTURE OMA, strictly scientific 9/2/2017 The architects at OMA have for the first time designed a university building: "Lab City" for the elite Parisian college CentraleSupélec.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/oma-centralesup%C3%A9lec-lab-city-paris) [FEATURED Dark elegance 9/1/2017 The Luxushotel "At Six" is Stockholm's newest design hotspot and combines Nordic design with fittings and showers from Axor.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/axor-design-hotel-at-six-stockholm-citterio) [ARCHITECTURE The best from the North 8/31/2017 In Copenhagen’s North Harbor a new lease of life has been found for a former coal crane – in the form of a hideaway that doubles up as a show of Danish design prowess.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/the-krane-copenhagen-nordhavn) [STYLEPARK VILLEROY & BOCH Memento in Barcelona 8/30/2017 For the bathroom in the exclusive "One Ocean Club" in Barcelona the choice fell on ceramics courtesy of Villeroy & Boch.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/villeroy-boch-memento-one-ocean-club-bathroom) [ARCHITECTURE Get on your UFO! 8/29/2017 The built future optimism of the 1970s can currently be viewed at the “Utopie Plastic” exhibition in Friche de l’Escalette near Marseille.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/mobile-architecture-experimental-plastic-pavillon-futuro-hexacube-bulle-suuronen-maneval-candilis-lescalette) [FEATURED Protection for children’s fingers 8/28/2017 Simonswerk has created a finger-trap protection set for retrofitting doors.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/simonswerk-finger-trap-protection-variant-v-1999-doors) [STYLEPARK BETTE Archetypes in titanium steel 8/26/2017 With its bathroom series Bette Loft and Bette Loft Ornament, Bette demonstrates its competence in molding technology.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/bette-loft-ornament-bathtub-titan-steel-design-bathroom) [ARCHITECTURE Stepping into history 8/25/2017 On Römerberg, in the middle of Frankfurt’s Old City, Meixner Schlüter Wendt have created an archetypical building of glass that appears to be suspended in space.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/evangelische-akademie-frankfurt-meixner-schlueter-wendt) [MAGAZINE Goodbye, Streets in the Sky! 8/25/2017 The bulldozer has rolled in. The demolition of Robin Hood Gardens has started. An obit. In praise of the best concrete in East London.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/robin-hood-gardens-london-brutalism-architecture-alison-peter-smithson) [ARCHITECTURE The city gains big-time with this building 8/24/2017 The new Historisches Museum Frankfurt building designed by Lederer Ragnarsdottir Oei has divided the architectural community. Peter Cachola Schmal, Director of Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt explains why it is successful.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/historic-museum-frankfurt-lederer-ragnarsdottir-oei-peter-cachola-schmal) - [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) - … - [77](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=77) - [78](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=78) - [79](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=79) - [80](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=80) - [81](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=81) - … - [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)