REVIEW – SALONE DEL MOBILE & MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2022 On the center lane6/13/2022Salone del Mobile and the Milan Design Week took place on June 7-12, 2022. What trends, contrasts and issues did the international event highlight? Our review.
COLUMN In the Dior Jungle10/15/2021For five years, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been working on a master plan for the conversion of the Kaufhaus Des Westens (KaDeWe) department stores' in Berlin. Now a first section of this transformation has been opened, with a spectacular escalator at its centre: The Spiral.
HOTEL Something for everyone3/30/2020Potato Head Studios are a luxury hotel on Bali by OMA and entrepreneur Ronald Akili that is also destined to become a cultural hub for the local population.
ARCHITECTURE In small parts11/20/2018BIG and OMA have realized two trailblazing residential construction projects in Stockholm.
FEATURED Beautifully black11/14/2018Troldtekt dedicates an online special to the new interest in black interior design.
ARCHITECTURE Clubhouse with stepped gables7/23/2018A well-conceived functional clubhouse for three Rotterdam sports clubs by NL Architects.
INTERVIEWS The composer7/11/2018Reinier de Graaf builds “Plattenbau for the rich” and considers communist East German architecture to be pioneering. We met him in Munich for an interview.
SALONE DEL MOBILE 2018 A touch of new objectivity5/10/2018Quo vadis, furniture design? This year’s Salone del Mobile reveals a few ideas. An analysis in our glance back at the fair.
ARCHITECTURE OMA on behalf of the state11/5/2017Architecture company OMA has significantly converted an existing ministry building to render it fit for a new purpose.
INTERVIEWS In future you pay at the central table10/12/2017Vizona is back! Matthias Hummel was appointed the new CEO of the shop-fitting expert in July 2017. Robert Volhard and Fabian Peters spoke with him about the company.
ARCHITECTURE OMA, strictly scientific9/2/2017The architects at OMA have for the first time designed a university building: "Lab City" for the elite Parisian college CentraleSupélec.
DESIGN Design Museum Redux11/22/2016London’s new Design Museum is opening in the former Commonwealth Institute building from 1962. Under the open concrete ceiling, Rob Wilson wonders if building and exhibitions also reflect upon the conditions of the UK after the Brexit vote.
MAGAZINE The Bilbao defect5/12/2013Even those members of the general public who only rarely go to exhibitions or attend concerts know the cultural temples erected by the likes of Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid – from the TV or magazines. Spectacular museums and concert halls have long since become a city marketing tool. An exhibition in Berlin takes a closer look.
MAGAZINE What a relief – The Milan marathon part 14/17/2013Milan 2013, a mixture of prudence, consolidation and solid design work. A little less hype and fewer prototypes, too. This is certainly doing the industry good.