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So what actually is a vacation? There’s no simply vacationing. You need approval. In the third part of our summer series our author asks: Where have architecture and design got to while we are on the road?

In the second part of our summer series the focus is on an atlas of unfinished places. It exclusively records those destinations which our author has never visited yet and will not manage to visit this summer either.

The sun’s shining, we’re on holiday, and have escaped everyday life. During the one or other leisurely hour we notices how many exciting questions raised in recent years have still not been answered. We’ve selected a few for you.

Shopping malls are playing an every greater role in the architectural typology of commerce. An exhibition in Munich presents examples from all over the world.

Out on Modernism’s top deck: The young Egon Eiermann skillfully advanced the basic structure of a factory building in Thuringia. All that was lacking – a user for the restored icon.

Horace Gifford never made a secret of his homosexuality. He loved life on the beach and he loved some of his clients. His life is closely linked with the liberalization of homosexuality in the second half of the 20th century.

Konstantin Grcic recently presented five furniture sculptures at Galerie Kreo in Paris. They create a space in a space and it is no coincidence that they are all called Hieronymus.

Karl Hugo Schmölz is among the most important post-War German architecture photographers. But was forgotten for many years. Now a digital photobook places his elegant images on our screens.

With the Switch House, the Tate Modern recently opened its long-cherished extension on the South Bank of the Thames. So what exactly have Herzog & de Meuron built?

An exhibition in Berlin offers you an unadulterated view of the urban scenery in some Japanese anime films.

Roger Bundschuh dissects a house into three parts. To create any number of views outwards and inwards.

Dresden’s Kunstgewerbemuseum has invited seven international designers to Schloss Pillnitz to contemplate friendship in design in an age of omnipresent rivalry.

Was the “Endless House” the original model for architecture without properties? The Museum für angewandte Kunst in Vienna is devoting an exhibition called “Life Visions” to the visionary Frederick Kiesler.

When the cities learnt to walk in superstructures – people stayed where they were, left to their own devices. Is this why yesterday’s future visions and utopias are suddenly back en vogue in architecture?

Not only has Constant’s archive been unpacked in The Hague: the show at the Gemeentemuseum also considers the future of a “New Babylon”.

Superstudio was consciously radical and critiqued progress. Barbara-Brigitte Mak and Ludwig Engel talked with Gabriele Mastrigli, curator of the jubilee exhibition, about the group’s legacy and importance today.

50 years ago, one of the most influential and radical architecture groups of the 1970s was founded in Florence: Superstudio. Rome’s Maxxi Museum celebrates the anniversary with a big retrospective.