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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
ART Skeleton seeks new build5/3/2016In Berlin’s Haus am Waldsee, an exhibition pares Jürgen Mayer H.’s architecture down to its essentials.
FEATURED Water-struck bricks4/28/2016For the new museum building of the European Hansemuseum in Lübeck the architects selected a double-skin façade featuring bricks by Petersen Tegl.
FEATURED Ministry doors with the right hinges4/20/2016For the new German Federal Ministry of Education and Research building in Berlin Heinle, Wischer und Partner have prioritized a quality interior, too – right through to the door hinge systems by Simonswerk.
FEATURED Lighting the way: St Martin3/24/2016To match the elegant façade of St Martin Tower in Frankfurt, MSM Meyer Schmitz-Morkramer Architekten chose slender light stelae from Ewo’s “EL” line that can nevertheless house an astonishing amount of technology.
FEATURED Working at the Schumanns3/21/2016Be it on the façade or at a workstation: Ado Lights’ luminaires place the Düsseldorf office building “Clara und Robert” in the right light.
FEATURED Slender concrete featherweights1/12/2016Rieder’s “fibreC 3D” molded sections give the façade of the new “Life Sciences Building” at the Vilnius University campus in Lithuania a clear and exciting structure.
FEATURED Arper in a spaceship12/14/2015Orona Ideo’s head office in San Sebastián is a futuristic disc. Its interior exudes a cool elegance, with exquisite furniture by Arper zoning its spacious offices.
FEATURED Sharp contours in the Wiesenviertel11/26/2015Andreas Ferstl (with Muck Petzet and Partner Architekten) modernized a residential and administrative building on Munich’s Bavariaring, imbuing the façade with lightness and a sense of depth using concrete elements of “FibreC 3D”.
FEATURED Elegant, and no frills10/15/2015Aesthetically speaking, the new conference room at Codic real-estate corporation calls to mind scenes from James Bond and Mad Men – thanks to the elegant Thonet furniture.
ARCHITECTURE Swirled surroundings10/13/2015How did Eero Saarinen’s TWA Terminal in New York come about? Why is Friedrich Kiesler’s vision of an “Endless House” still so topical? And what does Kodak City Rochester look like? The following books provide the answers.