FEATURED Vermeer was the inspiration6/13/2016In its latest project, the Reinier de Graaf Hospital, the Dutch firm EGM architecten explicitly references the city’s history, albeit in an abstract way.
FAIRS & EVENTS Getting Your Fingers Dirty 6/13/2016Aravena’s main exhibition celebrates hand-made architecture, as can be sensed from all the materials and smells. But does that suffice for the major challenges?
FEATURED There’s Pulp Fiction for dessert6/7/2016“Contraste” is the name of a new restaurant in Milan. The name may sound Italian, but it isn’t. Needless to say, however, the Spanish word, which has a similar ring to it, is understood in Italy, too. In this case, it stands for the fact that both the chefs come from South America.
FAIRS & EVENTS A Patchwork of Alternatives6/7/2016The exact line the Aravena Front runs between the central exhibition and the country pavilions is unclear. Whistle in the dark? Or hands-on and act?
ARCHITECTURE Alliance of Enthusiasts6/7/2016Just landed temporarily in Venice. The “Sarajevo Now” exhibition wants to save the museum back home using an unusual packaging idea.
INTERVIEWS New build in blue6/7/2016In the Arsenale’s Corderie the eye is caught by a large, blue model. It’s full of real proposals for a new, revolutionary way of building houses. Could an “Arrival City” really succeed in this way? Florian Heilmeyer spoke to Jörg Leeser of BeL about the concept.
FAIRS & EVENTS Achieving the breakthrough6/7/2016How to make Heimat? The German Pavilion opens its walls and the curators put forward hypotheses on what cities should look like where people not only arrive, but want to stay.
INTERVIEWS A nation in a refugee camp6/7/2016Since their expulsion 40 years ago the Sahrawis have lived in refugee camps in Algeria, where they have established their own state. Florian Heilmeyer spoke to Manuel Herz about the Western Sahara Pavilion.
FAIRS & EVENTS Architecture – daring to do more6/1/2016In his lively and powerful main exhibition at the Biennale, Alejandro Aravena shows just how much zest architecture can have, and how much power architects can have.
ARCHITECTURE Beautifully cast in concrete 5/31/2016In the “Modern Forms” picture book Nicolas Grospierre serves up a subjective selection of purist 20th-century concrete buildings.
FEATURED With a view of the Duomo5/30/2016Massimo Magaldi designed the Bar Terrazza Duomo 21 in Milan with a view at the cathedral. With furniture by Arper he developed a timeless and casual-looking bar.
FEATURED Following the path of the sun5/30/2016The office building designed by Schellen Architekten focuses firmly on energy saving – by means of solar PV, concrete core activation and color shading elements by Colt.
ART Go on thinking brightly5/27/2016It’s hard to imagine a more joyous and cunning approach to the designed world: For Michael Erlhoff on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
ARCHITECTURE Germania in Venezia5/24/2016So what has gone on show here in the past? Since 1991 the German Pavilion in the Giardini in Venice has also been used during the international architecture exhibition. Verena Hartbaum and Stephan Trüby have written a book about what has since gone on show there and how the building has itself changed – and present the highlight here specially for us.
DESIGN Progress in blue5/24/2016With their Atomic Plate series, Mia Grau and Andree Weissert have created a subversive/contemporary counterpart to traditional plates for the wall.
ARCHITECTURE A community of guests – the Frankfurt way5/24/2016Greetings 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.
STYLEPARK ZUMTOBEL Two showrooms by acdc5/19/2016In 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 elegance5/19/2016Reduced 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.
FEATURED Shadow play using metal5/19/2016RMIG 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 types5/19/2016A 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 people5/19/2016Interactive 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 light5/19/2016Potatoes, 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 future5/17/2016Marco 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!5/17/2016With 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 future5/17/2016“A@W Lectures by Stylepark” during the Architect@Work in Copenhagen
ARCHITECTURE Blanket home coverage5/11/2016At 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 again5/10/2016The Internationale Architecture Biennale Rotterdam raises questions about a “Next Economy”.
FEATURED Light-studded concrete5/9/2016It 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?
DESIGN Unlimited baths5/6/2016Refinements wherever you look: What caught the eye at Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Bagno.
STYLEPARK AXOR No two bathrooms alike5/4/2016Be it at home or in a hotel, when it comes to the bathroom standards are definitely on the rise. Anders Bergman spoke to Susanne Brandherm of Brandherm + Krumrey Interior Architecture on trends in the world of bathrooms.
ART Skeleton seeks new build5/3/2016In Berlin’s Haus am Waldsee, an exhibition pares Jürgen Mayer H.’s architecture down to its essentials.
