Our Mobility Special

Car makers Fiat have collaborated with the design brand Kartell to transform the new Fiat 500 full electric into a really special one-off.

With its “Morphoz” study, Renault presents an approach to the electromobility of the future, combining a city runaround and a luxury limousine in one.

Transformer

3/9/2020

The vision of self-driving cars: How will the design of vehicles change once they take over control of the driving? And when will we be along for the ride?

The third habitat

11/6/2019

smart is the first major manufacturer to pension off the gasoline engine and is now focusing exclusively on electromobility. Where do things go from here? We asked Daniel Lescow, Head of smart Brand and Product Management.

At the stations of the "Noord-Zuidlijn" metro line in Amsterdam, tiles from Mosa's "Quartz" collection set the direction.

Between comfort and cold sweat

10/15/2019

The view on the automobile is changing and with it the automotive industry. The branch is embracing alternative drive systems and discovering new business models for networking.

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An “Open sesame” for the digital age

12/20/2019

How will we move around buildings in future? Schindler’s answer to this question is the PORT system. It summons elevators, opens doors and likes crazy videos.

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Walking on art

6/4/2019

At motor shows, and only there, do studies go on display that never actually make it into mass production. If you’re going to dream, then in style is the motto at Renault, where the “Symbioz” concept car comes with no less than a house as the display cabinet.

Living and Driving

9/15/2017

Our interview with Oliver Heilmer, Vice President MINI Design, on the first all-electric MINI, David Bowie and the quest for maximizing quality in the tightest of spaces.

Transferred benefits

10/17/2018

Suitcase manufacturer Rimowa is undergoing a comprehensive rebranding by its new owner LVMH

STYLEPARK MINI

Unmistakable appearance

11/16/2018

“Volk ohne Wagen” (a people without a car) is the provocative title of a polemic by mobility researcher Stephan Rammler. What solutions does he actually have to offer for future mobility?

Rendezvous with the car culture

9/15/2017

“Grand Basel” is the name of the auto salon that is setting out to attract more than just collectors and design aficionados as of next year. The concept was presented in Basel – along with the one or other dream of a car.

IAA 2017

The hitchhiker's guide to a mobile future

9/14/2017

IAA 2017

Fridges on wheels?

9/21/2017

If car models become increasingly similar, then only the radiator grille and the marque logo remain to distinguish them.

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Gems beneath your feet

10/10/2017

For the creative design of the underground railway stations along the new “Wehrhahn” line, architecture firm Netzwerkarchitekten are making use of individually manufactured ceiling systems from Lindner.

Düsseldorf’s new subway line with its six stations is persuasive in architectural, artistic and engineering terms.

Concrete art, underground

2/24/2016

The future belongs to e-mobility, that much is certain. Whereas in the Global North people are mostly complaining about low ranges, in the South an e-car’s battery can be charged using solar energy while parked.

Alibaba and the Black Cloud

9/13/2016

Forget that endless driving around the block – soon cars will be finding their own parking spaces, all on their own.

Parking guided by invisible hands

9/12/2016

Multistory carparks are the storage medium of the automobile age. Here, traffic comes to a planned halt.

Sow multistory carparks, harvest traffic

9/9/2016

FAIRS & EVENTS

Flashy, and with a steering wheel

9/21/2015

So what does it look like, the automobile inner world of the outer world of the world of interiors? Everyone’s talking about digitalization, yet the interior fit-outs remain surprisingly conventional.

What do car keys look like in the age of digitalization? Have they finally ceased to be status symbols? We checked out a few of the latest examples at the Frankfurt International Motor Show.

Pocket cars

9/18/2015

They quite literally shaped automobile design and created the one or other icon to boot: Italian car body sculptors Bertone, Giugiaro, Pininfarina and Zagato.

Stilista e carrozziere: Bertone, Giugiaro, Pininfarina und Zagato

8/31/2015

Africa is urbanizing faster than any other continent. But tends to be forgotten in the debates on ubran mobility. Perhaps because the challenges are too great? Or perhaps because we aren’t being imaginative enough.

Tuk-tuks, daladalas and super-highways

12/19/2014

Must a car always have four wheels? Not at all. The “Bond Bug” not only proves that three’s enough, but also has quite a sassy feel to it. But the question remains – why is it that nature has not spawned any three-legged creatures?

Sulky with a third wheel: the Bond Bug

12/3/2014

It seemingly moves of its own volition, creates its own cosmos, tells us what we have to do, plays the lead in movies, has its own sound, and everything about it has to be designed: Our relationship to the automobile and the automobile to us, proves to be astonishingly diverse.

Auto-psy. Notes on automotive existence

11/21/2014

Many driving instructors enjoy the driver assistance systems in today's cars. The sector is not worried that piloted driving might one day cost them their job – to the contrary actually.

My colleague, the Robocar

11/9/2014