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A community of guests – the Frankfurt way

by Martina Metzner | 5/24/2016

Greetings from the ribbed Äppelwoi glass: with local color, a shared kitchen and a fictional story: Hotel “Libertine” in Frankfurt/Main seeks to make guests feel at home.

FEATURED

Two showrooms by acdc

5/19/2016

In two stores, the one in Scotland, the other in the US, the lighting manufacturers at acdc demonstrate the vast range of possible applications for the Zumtobel product lines – from gleaming Porsches to radiant whisky.

STYLEPARK ZUMTOBEL

Minimalist elegance

5/19/2016

Reduced design and flexible applications: the second generation of Zumtobel’s Supersystem luminaires is based on combinable, mutually calibrated modules that allow you to create a vast array of different lighting worlds.

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Shadow play using metal

5/19/2016

RMIG has many kinds of sun protection to offer, with shading elements made of perforated sheet metal and expanded metal, individually designed and manufactured for each project.

STYLEPARK ZUMTOBEL

Seven emotional types

by Katharina Sommer | 5/19/2016

A major study examined the responses of clients to different light settings in retail outlets. Katharina Sommer summarizes the findings and explains what they imply for lighting design in stores.

STYLEPARK ZUMTOBEL

Light follows people

by Jasmin Jouhar | 5/19/2016

Interactive technologies make it possible: the light in the store responds to the customer’s presence. Jasmin Jouhar spoke to Dutch lighting specialist Luuk van Laake about how this principle was applied in a Issey Miyake Shop in Antwerp.

STYLEPARK ZUMTOBEL

Supermarket, super light

by Jasmin Jouhar | 5/19/2016

Potatoes, sausages and milk – there’s the right light and the wrong light even for the everyday things in supermarkets. Jasmin Jouhar talked to the Zumtobel Group’s Ralf Knorrenschild about what challenges there are to getting the lighting right in a supermarket – and what role the Boiled Sausage Decree plays here.

DESIGN

Not only Grillo had a future

by Thomas Edelmann | 5/17/2016

Marco Zanuso was born 100 years ago. The Milanese architect is one of the inventors of post-1945 Italian design and for decades inspired other architects and designers.

FAIRS & EVENTS

Get out those ladders!

by Florian Heilmeyer | 5/17/2016

With Alejandro Aravena at its helm, the 15th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice could be a particularly interesting one – despite his predecessor Rem Koolhaas being a hard act to follow. After all, who could follow in those footsteps?

FAIRS & EVENTS

Wood with a future

5/17/2016

“A@W Lectures by Stylepark” during the Architect@Work in Copenhagen

ARCHITECTURE

Blanket home coverage

5/11/2016

At the symposium on “Adaptive Building Skins” at the Technical University of Munich architects and construction experts demonstrated and explained how adaptive facades may well change the architecture of tomorrow. We’ve documented the lectures for you.

FAIRS & EVENTS

The submarine rises again

by Paul Andreas | 5/10/2016

The Internationale Architecture Biennale Rotterdam raises questions about a “Next Economy”.

FEATURED

It is a minor debate often conducted between architects: Is less really more or is less simply less, or, (we recall how Robert Venturi provocatively quipped “Less is bore”) is less perhaps even boring?