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Nordic Novelties
Stockholm is increasingly establishing itself as the design capital of the North. With almost 40,000 visitors this year the Stockholm furniture fair and the Northern Light exhibition were more successful than ever.
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Urban Romanticism
“Urban Romanticism” is the motto of the Luminale 08 marathon. Many openings will already take place on April 5th.
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Orquideorama
The honeycomb-structured roof structure creates an exellent climate for the botanic garden in Medellin, Columbia...
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Fiction
The italian manufacturer Glas Italia presented the impressive mirror serie by the french designer Jean-Marie Massaud at the imm cologne.
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DDR- Nonstandard Buildings
Do the typical ingredients of Berlin, the "Berlin spirit", really exist? Brick, natural stone and concrete, combined with stucco, high ceilings with visible ceiling joists, plastic hard shell chairs, stools with cord seats, large-patterned wallpaper...
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Cities of the Pacific Century
The impending Olympic Games in China are dominating the headlines just as much as reports about the current spectacular major projects of the international architectural stars in the country. But what is happening behind, below, next to these individual highlights?
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Duke Ellington meets King Midas
This listed Haus Nürnberg was renovated in 2006 by the architects Reuter Schoger and re-opened as the Hotel Ellington. And, credit where credit is due, guests are confronted with their first unmistakable reference to the jazz age of the golden twenties as soon as they enter the lobby.
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The Pink Project
In the autumn of 2005 the Lower Ninth Ward, a multi-cultural precinct in the east of New Orleans, was flattened by the force of hurricane Katrina. In cooperation with Graft, the Berlin architects, Brad Pitt developed the idea...
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New Walls, Please!
For some years now wallpaper has been celebrating a major revival. Thanks to intelligent materials, new methods of processing and a return of the readiness to risk more graphic wall design, wallpaper is becoming a favoured projection surface for artists, architects and designers.
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News from Cologne
Even if the imm cologne has lost ground in comparison to the Milan fair, which has now become the major international design event, and the Maison & Objet exhibition which has benefited from the design boom in France, the response of the majority of imm exhibitors was entirely positive
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