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Anyone visiting Frankfurt over the next couple of weeks will simply encounter Iceland everywhere. The remote fabulous country is Guest of Honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair this year and the Museum für Angewandte Kunst has just opened an exhibition on Icelandic design. Above all fashion labels such as Spaksmannsspjarir, Mundi, Ásta Créative Clothes, Barbara I Gongini and Shoplifter are now the talk of the town here.

Tomás Saraceno’s “Cloud Cities” currently occupy Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof as if they were some utopia. Yet many of the seemingly spaceless and timeless spheres are there not just to be seen, but to be entered. While these transparent structures are fascinating from the inside and the outside, the exhibition as a whole does not succeed in more closely defining Saraceno’s artistic position. Yet it’s certainly worth a visit.

Ship-like modules for housing, recreation and provision go far beyond the common conceptions of a house-boat idyll. In their book “Float”, Dutchmen Koen Olthuis and David Keuning present the potential for floating buildings.

Data protection patterns, and columns of numbers and letters without their content spelling a meaning, form the basis of "Rapport", an intervention by architect Jürgen Mayer H. at Berlinische Galerie. Outsized the symbols spread across the floor and walls to form an "experimental spatial structure".

Iceland and Architecture? Architecture Film Festival Frankfurter Book Fair Specialist convention on the city of tomorrow Design with the Other 90%: Cities Dutch Design Week

“Maniera Moderna” at Haus der Kunst in Munich is dedicated to the multi-faceted oeuvre of Italian architect, designer and photographer Carlo Mollino. The exhibition is not the first to address the Turin polymath’s remarkable oeuvre. But it is certainly the most ambitious, as it focuses on Mollino’s oeuvre as a whole.

For people already familiar with Apple, there are not likely to be many surprises in the exhibition “Stylectrical – von Elektrodesign, das Geschichte schreibt” (Stylectrical – on history-making, electrical design) at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Hamburg. It is a bit like going to the movies with mountains of popcorn. It does leaves nobody any the wiser but some people come away with a pleasant feeling.

They have been fueling automotive advancement for around 100 years now: gas stations. In Christof Vieweg's informative and richly illustrated book "Volltanken bitte!" we discover that the first gas station was a pharmacy, which brands were once sold, when certain architectural models emerged and what particularly attractive stations look like.

Qubique - A new furniture fair in Berlinneue räume 11 - Furniture show in ZurichBuilding with Timber - Exhibition in MunichTerence Conran - The Way We Live Now Graft - Distinct Ambiguity

Directly prior to the beginning of the 64th IAA International Motor Show in Frankfurt, the first “Audi Urban Future Summit” was held at The Squaire at Frankfurt Airport, curated by Stylepark. International experts from a variety of disciplines spent the day discussing Tag possible approaches to mobility in the cities of tomorrow.

Mottos, slogans, brand claims and ad lines – on the stands at the 64th IAA international motor show you can read the one or other pithy sentence, and the one or other piece of nonsense. We’ve compiled the best of the best and worst for you.

Crisis, what crisis. At the 64th IAA international motor show, the industry is looking to the future with confidence. So how exactly do the designers think the auto of tomorrow will look? You can get an idea by casting a glance at the trade-fair orchestrations and the latest concept cars.

When developing new models today, existing parameters play the central role: What will be defined by statutory norms and regulations, today and tomorrow? What strategies do manufacturers and their individual brands pursue? Here is a small selection of concepts and studies which were often primarily concerned with changing notions of convenience and usage.

+++ Modernism in Miniature ++++++ Exhibiting Design +++ +++ Eames Words ++++++ Exhibition on Hannes Wettstein ++++++ Rethinking Mies +++

Cruising down the street with your elbow out the car window is a leisurely matter. A gesture that could be read as rebellion, or as communication. Will this youthful stance finally have to take a back seat in an era of fully air-conditioned cars?

In mid-September the 64th IAA, the International Car Show, opens for business in Frankfurt. Alongside new drive technologies, today design is crucial for the success of a new model. So what are the car designers’ preferences and methods? Ten hypotheses on the current state of play.

Traffic in China is steadily on the increase. Naturally, you find cars, mopeds and buses there, too but everything works just a little differently. Car hooters sound like house buzzers, for example and taxi drivers cannot read maps.

About half of all the high-rises that stand in the cities of this world have been built in the last decade. Curator Andres Janser sets out in his show "High-Rises - Dream and Reality" at Museum für Gestaltung Zürich to explore what is behind this boom.

+++ Helsinki Design Week ++++++ Vienna Design Week +++ +++ Tomás Saraceno: Cloud Cities ++++++ Exhibition about the architect Ernst Neufert ++++++ Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 ++++++ 24th World Congress of Architecture in Tokyo +++

The international zeitgeist has uncovered Detroit as America's maltreated "motor city": a growing creative scene is bearing witness to the emergence of new visions and an alternative "do-it-yourself movement" for this post-industrial wasteland.