FEATURED A new light on past splendour9/27/2016Following the lavish restoration of a villa in Berlin’s Grunewald district, building technology by Gira is now providing comfort and safety.
ARCHITECTURE Weissenhof on the Spree9/27/2016Mathildenhöhe, Weissenhof, Hansaviertel: Experimental housing estates have a real tradition in Germany. One that WerkbundStadt is destined to continue.
DESIGN Completely familiar, absolutely revolutionary Part 2 9/27/2016Evidently it is harder to dispense with the hand and its skills than one might think. It is especially trained and kept fit through writing. And those who write also train their capacity to think.
ART Fun was yesterday 9/27/2016An exhibition in Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum shows that young designers in the Netherlands are focusing on – saving the world.
FEATURED Intelligent sun protection9/27/2016Colt International is demonstrating the advances made in solar photovoltaic systems at the Merck Innovation Center in Darmstadt with a louver-based shading system and dye-sensitized solar cells.
ART The magic of light9/26/2016For 25 years now the Zumtobel Group has had artists design the annual reports. For the jubilee edition, New York architect Elizabeth Diller has devoted herself to the light of the blue hour.
FAIRS & EVENTS Completely familiar, absolutely revolutionary - Part 1 9/22/2016Today, who still writes by hand? Will we soon only be typing, swishing and clicking? Or do we acquire abilities when learning to write that we will need in future, too?
FEATURED A lake house as an artistic synthesis9/19/2016Project A01’s futuristic-looking house by the lake features an impressive sculptural roof and spacious glazing with sliding windows by Sky-Frame.
FEATURED Beautiful & practical9/19/2016Dallmer’s new “CeraFloor” shower drainage strip can be installed with millimeter precision. This stainless-steel drainage channel is easy to clean thanks to the integrated sloping curvature.
INTERVIEWS The Ringmaster and his Circus9/19/2016On the occasion of the presentation of the “Circus” Collection designed by Marcel Wanders, Fabian Peters spoke to Alberto Alessi about Dutch design and the Alessi book – and about why he really doesn’t care what his company will be doing in five years’ time.
FEATURED Lasting success9/19/2016Mosa is considered a specialist in the production of ceramics that can be applied to both horizontal and vertical surfaces. The Dutch company combines design and material efficiency in its tiles.
FAIRS & EVENTS A hothouse of homeliness 9/16/2016This year’s edition of the interior design show Formex in Stockholm is dedicated entirely to nature. The diversity of Scandinavian home design might stretch all the way to the tropics, but it nevertheless remains within easy grasp.
FAIRS & EVENTS Ten Sweet Years9/15/2016From the Margareten district to Brno, from copperplate etching to industrial design: Vienna Design Week 2016 is celebrating its tenth anniversary from September 30 through to October 9 in a true-to-form colorful fashion, promising to inspire visitors with a mélange of popular projects and challenging topics.
DESIGN Alibaba and the Black Cloud9/13/2016The future belongs to e-mobility, that much is certain. Whereas in the Global North people are mostly complaining about low ranges, in the South an e-car’s battery can be charged using solar energy while parked.
DESIGN Parking guided by invisible hands9/12/2016Forget that endless driving around the block – soon cars will be finding their own parking spaces, all on their own.
ARCHITECTURE Where changes are lived9/9/2016Right at the top of the parking garage at Berlin’s “Neukölln Arcaden”, for some years now the “Klunkerkranich” has happily existed in its very own urban biotope. A local meeting point, and not just for hipsters.
ARCHITECTURE Sow multistory carparks, harvest traffic9/9/2016Multistory carparks are the storage medium of the automobile age. Here, traffic comes to a planned halt.
ART Arty Advertizing9/6/2016Museum August Kestner is looking back at 70 years of advertising from Hanover – encountering many an avant-garde poster in the process.
ARCHITECTURE City landscape with car terrace9/6/2016Photographer Constantin Meyer’s new exhibition at Cologne’s Design Post is called “Parklandschaften”. Yet his images show places that aren’t especially idyllic: German multi-story car parks.
ARCHITECTURE Chemnitz showpiece 9/6/2016For a long time, the old railway station hall in Chemnitz was nothing more than a relic of East Germany. Now Grüntuch Ernst Architekten have transformed it into a pleasant, open and covered urban space.
FEATURED Muppets in the office9/5/2016Bertram Bihler designed his three office floors for the Swisscom TV in a restrained white, but added color accents with the office furniture from Lista Office LO.
DESIGN High-profile criminals9/5/2016In light of recent events, a look at the criminalization of design research
MAGAZINE Monsieur...’s vacation8/29/2016So 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?
MAGAZINE Monsieur...’s vacation8/23/2016In 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.
FEATURED Lobby for Oxford8/16/2016Herzog & de Meuron’s new building in Oxford captivates visitors with its purist selection of colors and materials, as well as the comfortable furnishings including chairs by Wilkhahn.
MAGAZINE Monsieur...’s vacation8/16/2016The 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.
ARCHITECTURE Completely carefree8/9/2016Shopping malls are playing an every greater role in the architectural typology of commerce. An exhibition in Munich presents examples from all over the world.
ARCHITECTURE Apolda Anchorage8/8/2016Out 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.
