400 Stylepark Newsletter – 4x4 Lieblingsartikel

Architect Gunter Fleitz likes saunas that are different, meaning not like typical saunas. Otherwise it is mainly architecture that sets him clicking or browsing.

Architect Gunter Fleitz is a self-confessed sauna buff. Although he prefers an unusual sauna in an equally unusual place to the customary wooden boxes. Which is why he would just love to spend time in Raumlabor’s metal sauna in Göteborg. In fact, Fleitz chose as his favorite Stylepark articles buildings that he found convincing both on the outside and on the inside, such as the G-Star Raw head office in Amsterdam designed by Rem Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). “A brilliant building!” Fleitz raves. What he finds especially exciting is how the architects managed to integrate a corporate culture into a new build. What is more: “Who wouldn’t like to work in an office full of Prouvé furniture?” he continues. Perfectly combining the old and the new is something Fleitz feels is particularly challenging. When in our report on bamboo furniture à la Stefan Diez he came across the “Japan Creative” initiative he did some research of his own, and became completely immersed in the expanse of the WorldWideWeb. There’s simply no end to reading online. (AS)