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Flowing lines
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Flowing lines

7/5/2016

Not just the ball is round
DESIGN

Not just the ball is round

by Erlhoff Michael | 7/5/2016

How football ornamentalizes people
Wolfing it up
ART

Wolfing it up

by Thomas Edelmann | 7/5/2016

Explorations by a new museum director: The exhibition “Wolfsburg Unlimited” stages a journey through the history and present of an exemplary drawing-board city.
A perfect bachelor
ARCHITECTURE

A perfect bachelor

by Uwe Bresan | 7/3/2016

Sometimes the history of architecture is full of irony. The same is true of Charles Moore’s house in New Haven, which featured in “Playboy” in 1969.
A marquee for art
ART

A marquee for art

by Christian Holl | 7/1/2016

For the 13th Small-Scale Sculpture Triennial, Kuehn Malvezzi created an impressive exhibition architecture hung from the ceiling in Alte Kelter in Fellbach.
The subtle difference
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The subtle difference

6/28/2016

Only teapots outside
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Only teapots outside

6/27/2016

Kortrijk Boogie Woogie
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Kortrijk Boogie Woogie

by Jasmin Jouhar | 6/27/2016

Silver lining in October: The Biennale Interieur celebrates its 25th edition with a wide-ranging cultural program and some 250 selected exhibitors from the design world.
Déjà-vu in Basel
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Déjà-vu in Basel

by Uta Abendroth | 6/27/2016

The Design Miami trade fair takes place parallel to Art Basel – but this year only featured very few highlights. There was a lack of real innovations or an exciting exhibition.
Modernism with the wrong rendering
ARCHITECTURE

Modernism with the wrong rendering

by Paul Andreas | 6/24/2016

Taking five buildings by Mies van der Rohe as examples, an exhibition in Heerlen demonstrates how successful good refurbishment in line with the original can be.
Stairs as focal point
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Stairs as focal point

6/21/2016

Bikini-Dance Discussions
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Bikini-Dance Discussions

by Antonia Henschel | 6/21/2016

The furniture basilica
DESIGN

The furniture basilica

by Thomas Edelmann | 6/21/2016

In a more or less sealed building by Herzog & de Meuron, the Vitra Design Museum presents selected items of furniture from its collection. The Schaudepot is an addition to the Vitra Campus, opening it up more towards Weil and Basel.
Grab your equipment, men!
MAGAZINE

Grab your equipment, men!

by Thomas Wagner | 6/21/2016

Enough of yoga. Photographs depicting young men competing in the traditional games in Finland show how fitness was practised by less slender Europeans around 1900.
The right tone
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The right tone

6/20/2016

Kjaer og Richter opted for underground exhibition zones and a new build boasting oscillating Petersen Tegl bricks as the annex to the CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark.

The Glass Bottom Secret
ARCHITECTURE

The Glass Bottom Secret

by Uwe Bresan | 6/16/2016

Paul Rudolph’s New York penthouse has lots of levels. Even today, architectural history is divided on the true significance of the building in which Rudolph lived with his partner Ernst Wagner.
Rough walls – but charming
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Rough walls – but charming

by Thomas Wagner | 6/14/2016

So many unfinished buildings: The Spanish pavilion focuses on unfinished and abandoned structures and thus discovers more than just the legacies of a burst property bubble.
Grand Tour of the Country Exhibitions
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Grand Tour of the Country Exhibitions

by Florian Heilmeyer | 6/14/2016

So who has the time to see everything at this Biennale? We’ve chosen a few of the really eye-catching exhibitions for you.
Siza celebrates with everyone
ARCHITECTURE

Siza celebrates with everyone

by Florian Heilmeyer | 6/14/2016

Almost 40 years after construction work started, a subsidized public housing project by Álvaro Siza is being continued in Venice. A superb exhibition turns it into the Portuguese country exhibition at this year’s Architecture Biennale – and shows us that sometimes the front runs right past our front foors.
Vermeer was the inspiration
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Vermeer was the inspiration

6/13/2016

In its latest project, the Reinier de Graaf Hospital, the Dutch firm EGM architecten explicitly references the city’s history, albeit in an abstract way.