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Designer Portrait: Studio IVANKA Concrete Works
Beton entwickelte sich in jüngster Zeit zu einem beliebten Material im Produkt- und Möbeldesign. Zu den Mit-Begründern dieses Trends gehört das Studio IVANKA, das 2003 von Katalin und Andras Ivanka in Budapest gegründet wurde...
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Spectacular Vernacular: contemporary applications of craft-based building methods
There was a time when context was everything in construction. Local materials were transformed by the ambition and skill of the builder into a functional, stylistically appropriate structure. In the face of an, at times seemingly inexorable, movement towards a homogenous, global design language in architecture, a number of architects have recently completed projects that embrace low-tech, craft-based building methods to add real environmental and cultural value.
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The Milan Four: Jean Nouvel
In the first of four interviews from the 2011 Milan Salone Internazionale del Mobile with four very different figures from the creative world – an internationally celebrated architect, a grand master of Italian design, a strongly concept-led designer and a leading manufacturer – Architonic meets Jean Nouvel, Pritzker-Prize-winning architect of such projects as the Torre Agbar in Barcelona and Paris's Fondation Cartier, as well as designer of a growing body of highly considered furniture and lighting pieces.
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Messerückblick ISH Frankfurt 2011 – Leben im Bad
Das Bad – ein kultureller Ort, der sich nicht nur laufend konzeptuellen und modischen Wandlungen anpasst, sondern auch technisch revolutioniert wurde.
Architonic besuchte die ISH 2011 in Frankfurt um für Sie die Neuheiten und Trends für innovatives Bad-Design aufzuspüren.
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Neo Geo: geodesic construction in contemporary architecture
The principles of geodesic construction were developed by the pioneering American architect and engineer R Buckminster Fuller in the middle of the last century as part of his efforts to use science and technology to address universal issues. His vision has inspired successive generations of architects and geodesic designs have played a fundamental role in defining the architectural landscape of the past few decades. Architonic takes a look at some recent projects that combine the brilliance of Buckyʼs ideas with twenty-first century technology, resulting in complex yet efficient structures with a futuristic aesthetic.
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Design Miami/ Basel 2011
Die Design Miami/ Basel stand dieses Jahr zum ersten Mal seit ihrer Gründung 2005 unter neuer Direktion von Marianne Goebl, welche die Messe mit dem Auge der Expertin gekonnt kuratierte. Sie trat im Februar 2011 in die Fussstapfen von Ambra Medda, die nach ihrer Trennung von ihrem Partner Craig Robbins auch an Leidenschaft für ihr Amt als Direktorin des gemeinsamen Babys verlor, wie es sich in der letztjährigen Pressekonferenz schon abzeichnete...
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The Milan Four: Alessandro Mendini
In the second of our series of four interviews with four leading design figures from this year's Milan Furniture Fair, Architonic meets Alessandro Mendini – designer, architect, writer, theorist and all-round provocateur. Mendini, who turns 80 this year, discusses, among other things, the importance of irony, the increasing lack of polemic in design, and why certain detractors of the 1980s postmodern Memphis movement might be talking 'bullshit'.
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Switched On: Benjamin Hubert
'Awards come and go,' says Benjamin Hubert. 'They're not a mark of good design, that's for sure.' You'd be forgiven for thinking that there's more than a touch of false modesty or disingenuity at work here, given the celebratory press coverage the young British designer received a couple of years ago, not to mention the numerous plaudits. But not so. In a recent interview with Architonic, Hubert reveals himself to be as pragmatic and self-aware as he is creative.
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Messerückblick: Euroshop Düsseldorf, The Global Retail Trade Fair, 26.2. bis 2.3.2011
Immer mehr bedeutende Top-Design-Hersteller buchten einen Stand auf der Euroshop 2011 - dies zeugt von der massgebenden internationalen Rolle der Düsseldorfer Messe.
Diese erfolgreiche Messe verzeichnet also das, was sich auch die Retail-Branche wünscht: Zunehmendes Wachstum und viel Umsatz.
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Death by Architecture
Shuffling off this mortal coil is something we all, sadly, have to do. There's no opting out. But while mortality might be a great leveller, a number of architects have shown recently how designing environments that process death – be it in practical or psychological terms – can be elevated above the uninspired builds that we've been used to, which have all to easily embraced historicism or, perhaps worse, anonymity. Architonic presents a selection of projects that put some life back into designing for the dead.
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The Milan Four: Lorenza Luti from Kartell
In the third of our series of interviews from this year's Milan Furniture Fair with some of the creative industries' leading figures, we meet Lorenza Luti, marketing and retail director of established Italian brand Kartell, which, after 50 years in business, continues to innovate in the use of its signature material – plastic.
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Quiet Musings: Michael Govan
A series of new architecture commissions and exhibitions suggests that museums might no longer be in the business of pageantry. In this third, and final, part of a series examining the notion of the post-spectacle museum, Architonic meets Michael Govan, director and CEO of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Feinguss aus der Hexenküche
Wenn Designer und führende Industrieunternehmen die Köpfe zusammenstecken wird es meistens spannend. Während eine solche Zusammenarbeit der Industrie die Möglichkeit eröffnet, ihre speziellen Fähigkeiten in einem völlig neuen Kontext zu demonstrieren, bieten deren Herstellungsverfahren für Kreative eine ungeahnte Fundgrube an neuen Gestaltungslösungen. So ist es auch in diesem Fall – bei der Kooperation zwischen der SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH Guss Gruppe und dem Berliner Designbüro Formfjord.
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People Will Talk: Dornbracht Conversations 3
Put a group of designers, curators and design writers in a room and what do you get? The Dornbracht Conversations. The third annual platform for intelligent dialogue on the state of design, past, present and future, hosted by German design manufacturer Dornbracht, took place last month, with a hundred or so invited design journalists and PRs in attendance. Here's our report on some of what was discussed, plus an invitation to you to have your say.
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Water, Water Everywhere: ISH Frankfurt 2011 preview
With ISH Frankfurt 2011 – the leading international trade fair for all things bathroom – about to open its doors, Architonic takes a look at just some of the new products that will be on show. We've kept it clean.
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