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  1. Interviews Milano and Euroluce 2009 Interviews Milano and Euroluce 2009
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  2. Economic crisis – disaster or opportunity? Economic crisis – disaster or opportunity?
    We have not experienced a crisis of this magnitude since 'Black Friday' in 1929, when the stock market crash rocked the world economy. However, times of recession do not necessarily mean stagnation. In the field of public investment they instead provide an opportunity and a challenge to innovate. Read
  3. Cool & Fresh 2009 Cool & Fresh 2009
    This year it was easier to find your way round Salone Satellite than last year, for the very good reason that the really good things were relatively easy to identify. Read
  4. Urban Swiss Design: Glattalbahn Zurich Urban Swiss Design: Glattalbahn Zurich
    With its 12.7 km the Glattalbahn runs through the (urban) landscape like a red thread, binding the individual towns and districts of the Glattal - noth aglomeration of Zurich - into a single urban space. Read
  5. Gandia Blasco Announces the 4th Outdoor Furniture contest Gandia Blasco Announces the 4th Outdoor Furniture contest
    The object of this year’s contest, aimed at students and young design professionals, is the design of a parasol, pergola or pergola system. Read
  1. The Bauhaus comes from Weimar The Bauhaus comes from Weimar
    On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the State Bauhaus Weimar, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar is presenting a large overview exhibition, “The Bauhaus comes from Weimar” from 1 April until 5 July, focussing on the early years of the legendary school of design. Read
  2. Datenbank zum Anfassen Datenbank zum Anfassen
    Ein Archiv spezieller Art wurde jüngst mit dem Materialarchiv ins Leben gerufen. Das Materialarchiv ist eine Symbiose aus Online-Datenbank und einer Materialsammlung zum Anfassen als auch des haptischen Erlebens von Werkstoffen. Read
  3. Selected novelties from the Salone del Mobile Milano Selected novelties from the Salone del Mobile Milano
    See our first selection of novelties from this year´s Salone del Mobile. More will follow. Read
  4. Festival of temporary architecture? Festival of temporary architecture?
    Whereas on previous occasions Milan always proved to be a festival of temporary architecture, this year we had to look hard for innovative concepts. Read
  5. Grand Stand 2 Grand Stand 2
    Even the most spectacular trade fair stand disappears again as fast as it was set up and remains only an ephemeral memory. However this two-volume photographic record, the result of a cooperation between publishers Frame and Gestalten Verlag... Read
  1. Haus K. in O. (House K. in O.) Haus K. in O. (House K. in O.)
    Between 1930 and 1932 the architect Martin Elsaesser planned and constructed a villa in the Hamburg suburb of Othmarschen for the tobacco magnate Philipp F. Reemtsma and his family.. Read
  2. Grand Pari(s) Grand Pari(s)
    “We have to think big”, said President Sarkozy on 30 April 2009 at the opening of the exhibition at the Palais de Chaillot, where ten of thirty-seven future models for the re-design of Paris are on display. Read
  3. Milano....2009 Milano....2009
    Those who had expected that during times of financial crisis the Salone as a major event would this time have to struggle with empty spaces or a sharp fall in the number of exhibitors and visitors in fact experienced exactly the opposite. Read
  4. Unsung America - Bruce Fifield: Fanny-tastic Unsung America - Bruce Fifield: Fanny-tastic
    “The first two minutes of a person’s interaction with a chair are incredibly important to how a person judges that chair and compares it to other products on the marketplace.” Read
  5. Supernova Supernova
    The cooperation between artist and designer Mike Meiré and the upmarket manufacturer Dornbracht has lasted for 17 years now. It's a cooperation which has led to a number of remarkable projects... Read
  1. Entirely Brazilian Entirely Brazilian
    From this year on ClassiCon will be marketing some of Sergio Rodrigues´ classics. We had the honour of interviewing him in Milan. Read
  2. Carchitecture Carchitecture
    The big car manufacturers have recently discovered an effective marketing instrument in a new kind of corporate architecture: large museums and car collection centres built right next to the production plant, where the customer can experienced an idealised world of the automobile. Read
  3. Trends Salone del Mobile Milano 2009 Trends Salone del Mobile Milano 2009
    At times of crisis many manufacturers go back to basics, and the design principle of the "super normal" propagated by Naoto Fukasawa and Jasper Morisson has become the answer for products when times are hard. Read
  4. Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
    The Center was designed by the Californian firm of architects Morphosis and named after its generous sponsor Charles H. Cahill, who helped finance a large share of the 50 million dollar building... Read
  5. The UAE Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 breaks ground The UAE Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 breaks ground
    Drawing inspiration from the form of a sand dune, the pavilion is a reference to this symbolic feature of the desert landscape shared by each of the seven emirates... Read
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