MAGAZINE Closing Fast 31: Crossing the Finishing Line12/31/2015Today, the year 2015 comes to an end – and today we also cross that finishing line.
ARCHITECTURE Closing fast 30: Concrete heaven12/30/2015Gisela Erlacher’ series of photographs shows how residual spaces can create free scope.
DESIGN Closing fast 29: Happy Hours12/29/2015In the run-up to New Year’s Eve you quickly realize what it was you always felt you simply had to own: a portable bar hamper for the road.
ARCHITECTURE Closing fast 28: The Great Rupture12/28/2015With his “Grande Cretto”, Italian artist Alberto Burri has created a monument to and for the Sicilian town of Gibellina.
DESIGN Closing fast 27: Drops of light 12/27/2015The”Melt and recreate” luminaire by Siri Bahlenberg and Sofia Bergfeldt is a good lesson in the eternal cycle of emerging and passing.
MAGAZINE Closing fast 26: Secret joy12/26/2015The myth would have it that rebel Sisyphus is condemned to constantly roll a huge boulder up a hill, yet when he reaches the top the rock goes rolling back down again. Today, he goes about a similar occupation.
DESIGN Closing fast 25: Tea is now brewed using dragon water12/25/2015A kettle can whistle, be it like a bird or a dragon. Something Michael Graves certainly knew.
ART Closing fast 24: Bikinis and mountains12/24/2015Do you dance in your bikini round the mountains at Christmas? Or prefer to spend it writing postcards?
DESIGN Closing fast 23: Born to be wild12/23/2015For all those men who don’t want to wait till Spring comes: “The Ride” has already shifted up a gear.
MAGAZINE Closing fast 22: Knotted parody12/22/2015A carpet by the duo Veli + Amos wittily undermines media self-adoration and the use of patterns.
MAGAZINE Closing fast 21: Still alive...12/21/2015Ikea brings people together at the Christmas table. And call it “Gästaurant”.
ART Closing fast 20: A far cry from art12/20/2015In museum stores, different ages and worlds mix unabashedly, such that Munch’s “Scream” can easily become the latest rage.
ART Closing fast 19:From the diary of the eye12/19/2015There can be surprises when early and contemporary paintings of one and the same artist meet up – as in the case of Rolf-Gunter Dienst.
DESIGN Closing Fast 18:Even Dionysus needs a mirror 12/18/2015“Handle with Care” is the latest addition to Antonia Henschel’s series of “Objects” – this time they’re made of glass, china and ceramic.
DESIGN Closing fast 17: Kaamos needs musiikki12/17/2015Finland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has had an entire set of “typically Finnish” emojis designed – the first country to take such a step.
DESIGN Closing fast 16: The Magnificent Seven for Arne or against Arne?12/16/2015Is all the song and dance of staging things now affecting design or do classics need a makeover now and again?
ART Closing fast 15: Passage through the superstructure12/15/2015Artist Stephan Huber has created many fantastics map. And they’re now all brought together in his “world atlas".
ARCHITECTURE Closing fast 14: Grid supports tenacity12/14/2015In Rotterdam the Timmerhuis designed by Rem Koolhaas and his OMA is fast closing on turnkey.
DESIGN Closing fast 13: In a world of labels12/13/2015Meß mer’n Tee with a spoon for measuring out the tea or enjoying the taste of snow? What we can learn from the literature on branded goods.
ART Closing fast 12: Tranquility, movement, repetition12/12/2015An attentive viewer will constantly find something new and surprising in Christiane Schlosser’s drawings.
DESIGN Closing fast 11: Refined discoloration12/11/2015When it’s time for a color switchover on the Pedrali furniture production line, there are various surprising side-effects in the injection molding plant.
ARCHITECTURE Closing fast 10: With a clear conscience12/10/2015Were buildings constructed to the passive house standard just an architectural flash in the pan. Will everything now turn for the better with the advent of the Active House?
ARCHITECTURE Closing fast 09: Which prefab will win?12/9/2015Did you know that you can also play the Happy Families game with standardized prefabs? Here’s how: Soviet Mass Housing 1958 -1980.
ARCHITECTURE Closing fast 08: Copied from camels12/8/2015Richard Neutra wanted to expand architecture to include a biorealistic element. Evidently he also had an eye for animals.
ART Closing fast 07: Get to the typewriter12/7/2015Anyone who saw it probably headed straight for the attic to retrieve the old “Remington”, “Gabriele” or “Hermes Baby” typewriter.
ART Closing fast 06: The Kiss and the kisses12/6/2015Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss” is for the Austrian Gallery in the Upper Belvedere in Vienna what the “Mona Lisa” is for the Louvre in Paris. With all manner of consequences for the foyer.
DESIGN Closing fast 05: Europe shrinks12/5/2015“We connect people in Europe” Deutsche Telekom announces in a commercial and displaces architectural landmarks.
DESIGN Closing fast 04: Cell phone! Punkt. 12/4/2015Jasper Morrison has designed a cell phone that seeks to be nothing more and nothing less. Does Edward Snowden have something to do with it?
ART Closing fast 03: It’s all a jinx... 12/3/2015Author Arno Schmidt proved way back when that popular hits can be political, if you only grasp them right.
ARCHITECTURE Closing fast 02: Relax! 12/2/2015As we all know the life of an architect can be arduous. So it’s best if – like this comic booklet – you take things with a pinch of humor.
DESIGN Closing fast 01: Gropius and his Adler 12/1/2015Luxurious mobility and progressive architecture have always been a perfect match.