SUSTAINABILITY Building with future4/5/2021For the Zumtobel Group's current annual report, civil engineer and architect Prof. Werner Sobek formulated 17 theses on the subject of sustainability.
ARCHITECTURE The fascination of opposites4/2/2021Not a whole: Berlin photographer Andreas Gehrke has explored his home town. His new illustrated book “Berlin” is also a farewell.
ARCHITECTURE Circular4/1/2021Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen has designed an artful footbridge that connects two buildings in Brussel’s government district. Named “Tondo” the structure references the Renaissance.
FEATURED PROJECT A Symphony in Brick3/30/2021With diamond-shaped bricks in a hue specially designed for the project, Petersen Tegl is outfitting the extension to the Z33 House for Contemporary Art in Hasselt, Belgium with a façade that is exceptional in every respect.
ARCHITECTURE Three questions to Weng Ling3/29/2021For the urban development project "Pavilions by the Seaside" in Haikou, China, curator Weng Ling combines architecture and art from a total of 20 international creatives, including famous names such as Bjarke Ingels and Anish Kapoor. The concept she explains to us in an interview.
ARCHITECTURE At One with the Forest3/26/2021With the Tofino Beach House on Vancouver Island and other projects, Olson Kundig show how architecture can create a feeling of oneness with nature.
COLUMN Everyday Architecture3/25/2021Anne Lacaton and Jean Philippe Vassal have won the Pritzker Prize. And it’s well overdue, as our author sees it, once again casting his gaze over the work and impact of the French architect duo.
ARCHITECTURE Jörg Brüggemann – Autobahn3/24/2021Jörg Brüggemann captured the German autobahn with a camera and created a contemporary document that raises questions about both the past and future of Germany’s national concrete structure.
ARCHITECTURE The human being in focus3/18/2021With her office Nickl & Partner, Professor Christine Nickl-Weller builds hospitals, research facilities and nursing homes nationally and internationally. She explains why flexible floor plans are important and what urban planning and hospital construction have in common.
FEATURED Sustainable fun with façades3/16/2021In Bochum, ACMS Architekten have designed a student residence based on the “Variowohnen” flexible housing concept. For the façade, they made use of “öko skin” courtesy of Rieder, a form of cladding comprising slatted wall panels made of fiberglass-reinforced concrete.
STYLEPARK WAGNER LIVING Redefining Boundaries3/9/2021In WAGNER Design Lab, architects Titus Bernhard and Andreas Weissenbach have recently realized a giant display window for Wagner. Thanks to Stefan Diez’s flexible “D2” system, its interior can be used flexibly for anything from a showroom to a work environment.
ARCHITECTURE A funky old-timer3/5/2021LOT Architects have given an old townhouse in Brooklyn a radical rejuvenation treatment. The result is one thing above all: blue.
ARCHITECTURE Estrangement of the familiar3/3/2021The two architectural firms of Young & Ayata and Michan Architecture joined forces to design a residential building in Mexico City. The result features an expressive concrete façade that provides for subtle agitation.
SUSTAINABILITY Stick, twist – live2/26/2021There are many facets to sustainable construction. This house sounds the way it looks – the Wikkelhouse (twisted house) by Amsterdam-based studio Fiction Factory is manufactured as a modular lightweight construction made of virgin-fiber paperboard that can be put up on site quickly without problems or complications.
COLUMN Less for More2/24/2021The “Van B” residential building in Munich hopes to provide answers to the housing questions of our time. Our author took a closer look at the concept behind it.
ARCHITECTURE New Stylepark building receives the German Brick Award 20212/16/2021NKBAK's new Stylepark building in Frankfurt am Main has been awarded the renowned German Brick Award.
ARCHITECTURE Super landmark for Germany2/16/2021Architecture can be beautiful. It can impress, influence and frighten, it can be serious – but above all architecture can definitely be fun! Take WERK12 by MVRDV and N-V-O in Munich’s Werksviertel-Mitte that was named best new building in Germany and awarded the DAM Prize 2021.
ARCHITECTURE Double height2/15/2021More light, more space, and great calm: In Copenhagen, David Thulstrup applied typical Scandinavian coolness and architectural precision in extending a private apartment upwards and completely rethinking its layout.
NEW WORK Communications machine2/12/2021The new media campus OMA has designed for the Axel Springer Publishing Group sees itself as the concrete manifestation of a hypothesis about the end of classic office structures. The fact that in the digital age we urgently need enough space for communications and the exchange of opinions is something that the current pandemic has no doubt brought home to us once again.
ARCHITECTURE Steep hut2/10/2021The Kreuzbergpass service building in Sexten designed by Pedevilla Architekten and Willeit Architektur offers hikers protection and orientation: Made of concrete and wood, it withstands even extreme weather conditions.
ARCHITECTURE Concrete in the rotunda1/28/2021Tadao Ando has transformed a 250-year-old former commodities exchange in Paris into a new contemporary museum for the Pinault Collection. The Pritzker Prize winner has inserted a richly-contrasting horizontal line into the venerable rotunda beneath which fair-faced concrete shimmers gently.
ARCHITECTURE Quality not quantity1/20/2021The proposed demolition of the Indian Institute of Management, designed by Louis I. Kahn, prompted a wave of indignation in the architectural world. High time to take another look at the works and the impact of the great master-builder.
SUSTAINABILITY Living in a Vision1/6/2021Alfredo Häberli combines ecology with design in his house named “Waldsicht”.
SUSTAINABILITY Closing circles1/4/2021Architecture firm Partner & Partner has come up with two sustainable high-rises based on the principles of the recycling economy. The concept recently received the German Sustainability Award Design.
ARCHITECTURE A peek behind the scenes12/24/2020The new Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin by Ortner & Ortner Baukunst works with the existing structure and is a prime example of architectural demystification.
FEATURED Out of the box12/17/2020Hager offers architects an extraordinary service with a holistic portfolio that covers the entire range of building electrical solutions.
FEATURED Open exchange12/1/2020Offecct has furnished the Gothenburg Central Office for Transport Infrastructure. The result: flexible spaces that invite social interaction.
ARCHITECTURE Not everything was loud and brightly colored11/19/2020“Frankfurt 1980–1989” is the fourth volume in the series of architecture guides on Frankfurt by Wilhelm E. Opatz. Our author Leonie Köhren researches the history of 20th-century urban design and taking a closer look at the publication.
FEATURED Connecting things11/17/2020At their new showroom in Hamburg, USM are presenting a large number of possible uses for their furniture. The result is a spatial structure that allows for smooth transitions between life and work.
ARCHITECTURE Architecture and wine10/27/2020From Napa Valley through to Northern Italy: vineyards fit for the 21st century.
SUSTAINABILITY Natural variety10/8/2020The book "Out of the Woods - Architecture and Interiors Built from Wood", recently published by gestalten Verlag, uses fascinating examples to show architecture in union with nature.
STYLEPARK SIGEL Working together10/5/2020When the idea of coworking came into being in San Francisco back in 2005, digital nomads became the avantgarde of a new world of work. Only 15 years later the flexible office is booming – particularly in times of a global pandemic.
STYLEPARK SIGEL More than just a workplace10/1/2020BMW and Adacor: one large corporation and one medium-sized business that have both set themselves the task of creating optimal work environments and structures. So what sort of approaches have they adopted to New Work?
ARCHITECTURE Lighting laboratory in Lamotte-Beuvron9/28/2020FREAKS Architecture integrated a hybrid structure into an industrial hall in their design for Sammode’s new research center.
FEATURED A clear edge9/7/2020In a major project for technology and research currently under construction in Paris’ Saclay suburb, developers are making use of sustainable concrete skin façade panels as well as Rieder’s new molded components – the formparts.fab.