ARCHITECTURE Playing on the roads9/15/2014Motivation is a central aspect of “gameful design” and intends to have a positive influence on user´s behavior.
DESIGN Ata, applied?9/12/2014“Give Love Back. Ata Macias and Partners” in Museum Angewandte Kunst is an attempt to devote a show to a man who shaped Frankfurt’s nightlife with his club, Robert Johnson, and who also transformed the restaurant scene, too.
DESIGN Weave replaces brickwork 9/12/2014The properties and behavior of building materials play an important role in the robot-controlled construction process. The Institute for Computer-Based Design at the University of Stuttgart shows how a house can be built using the weaving method.
FAIRS & EVENTS Eight days on the loose 9/10/2014Once a year the “Burning Man Festival” transforms Nevada’s Black Rock Desert into a temporary city teeming with audacious buildings, fantastic sculptures, and out-of-this-world conveyances.
DESIGN The dictionary of digital fabrication9/8/2014The label “3D printing” is often used to cover all techniques enabling data to be turned into objects. Whereas there are actually any number of possibilities in terms of technology, materials and application. An overview.
DESIGN Industrial design in the postindustrial age9/8/2014We asked Stefan Diez to give us his personal take on the advantages and disadvantages and the consequences of digital fabrication for the everyday work of industrial designers. An outline.
ARCHITECTURE A car for your handbag9/7/2014The divisible car as a new interpretation of car sharing? Charlotte Malz talked to Prof. Fügener about concepts of future mobility.
DESIGN Beautiful printed world9/5/2014The world of digital manufacturing has a new hero – the 3D printer. So are we all going to be dabbling in the art of creative production soon? What are the real benefits? And what opportunities can it offer to designers proper?
DESIGN Factory - everywhere9/5/2014Digital technology, data networking and Internet have revolutionized controls and communication. Now it’s manufacturing’s turn. In a new series we will in the coming weeks be focusing on the phenomenon of “digital fabrication”.
FAIRS & EVENTS Comfy chair with a fur collar9/3/2014What happens if fashion and furniture embark on a relationship? We’ve made a few matches for you from among the novelties at the Milan Salone and the catwalk couture for the coming winter season. All just coincidence?
FAIRS & EVENTS Here come the Finns!9/2/2014Soon it’ll be book fair time again in Frankfurt. And as always, the fair’s Guest of Honor country gets to shape the face of culture in the city for a short time. So what does Finland have to offer in addition to vodka and forests, sauna and Saarinen, Artek and Aalto?
ARCHITECTURE The Secret of Happy Cities9/1/2014What kind of urban realm makes you feel good? Scientists have developed different methods to demonstrate the psychological impact of cities on their inhabitants.
FAIRS & EVENTS What lodged in NKBAK´s minds:8/31/2014Architects and designers naturally have their own view on houses, people and exhibitions. So we asked a few of them for their photographic impressions of the 14th Architecture Biennale. And for their related comments of course.
ARCHITECTURE Hot Spots: The ideal summer for architects8/29/2014Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam presents architects’ drawings of summer dreams – and escorts us sweetly into the balmy late summer.
INTERVIEWS Arnout Meijer8/27/2014: takes suns and planets out of orbit and puts them in our apartments.
ART Nature does not remain nature8/25/2014In the spaces of Louisiana Museum Olafur Eliasson has created a rough, Nordic landscape made of scree. It changes with anyone moving in it.
ARCHITECTURE What lodged in Ateliermob´s mind:8/24/2014Architects and designers naturally have their own view on houses, people and exhibitions. So we asked a few of them for their photographic impressions of the 14th Architecture Biennale. And for their related comments of course.
ARCHITECTURE Hot spots: The Bridal Veil of Sancy8/22/2014Architect Louis Sicard has installed a shower in the Auvergne for elves, fairies, dwarves and hikers.
FEATURED Libeskind’s façade labyrinth8/19/2014The façade of the Kö-Bogen in Dusseldorf bears Daniel Libeskind’s typical formal language – the professionals at Lindner Fassaden GmbH were responsible for project planning and realization.
ARCHITECTURE What lodged in Ross Lovegrove`s mind:8/17/2014Architects and designers naturally have their own view on houses, people and exhibitions. So we asked a few of them for their photographic impressions of the 14th Architecture Biennale. And for their related comments of course.
ARCHITECTURE Hot spots: Water over wine8/15/2014Enjoy the hot summer in the cool world of wine cellars: The architecture of the VIK vineyard Smiljan Radić designed in Chile’s Millahue valley truly refreshes the senses.
INTERVIEWS Aust & Amelung8/13/2014: form a small powerhouse that folds concrete and works with counterweights.
ARCHITECTURE Please swarm out8/11/2014Team Berlin: The city as a nervous system requires a different kind of swarming behavior.
FAIRS & EVENTS What lodged in Amandus Sattler's and Mikala Holme Samsøe's mind:8/10/2014Architects and designers naturally have their own view on houses, people and exhibitions. So we asked a few of them for their photographic impressions of the 14th Architecture Biennale. And for their related comments of course.
ARCHITECTURE Hot spots: In the shadow of the giant mushroom8/8/2014In the inner courtyard of the MoMA PS1 David Benjamin’s installation provides welcome shade in the summer heat, thanks to a weave made of thousands of microorganisms.
ARCHITECTURE Hot spots: a Modernist dip8/4/2014Guaranteed no “themed giant flumes” or “hot whirlpool” at Álvaro Siza’s “Piscinas de Marés”. Here you can immerse yourself in Portuguese Modernism.
FAIRS & EVENTS What lodged in Something Fantastic´s minds:8/3/2014Architects and designers naturally have their own view on houses, people and exhibitions. So we asked a few of them for their photographic impressions of the 14th Architecture Biennale. And for their related comments of course.
ARCHITECTURE Trade off8/1/2014May 28-30, 2014: Attending the third “Global Infrastructure Initiative” in Rio de Janeiro, organized by McKinsey & Co. The gathering is dominated by an almost limitless optimism about the blessings of technology and the belief that innovation by the infrastructure sector (coupled to extravagant funds) will eventually cure all the contemporary city’s ails…
