ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
Reworking churches: Who sustains the cultural venue?
Designs turn churches into cultural centres. Whether they become lasting venues depends on more than architectural ingenuity alone.
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Designed Certainty: Why Information Is Never Just Content
A graphic does not simply show things as they are: it directs the gaze, puts magnitudes in relation to one another and makes some things disappear. The Frankfurt exhibition “On Display” demonstrates why reading design is a form of media literacy.
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ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
Eileen Gray: thinking architecture through use
Eileen Gray conceived furniture and architecture together. An exhibition in Kaiserslautern brings this approach to life through models and spatial installations.
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ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
What film reveals about Peter Zumthor’s architecture
As Wim Wenders’ portrait of Zumthor opens in cinemas: how moving images convey space, material and use – and where they reach their limits.
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Adam Szymczyk at the Swiss Architecture Museum
An art curator is leading Basel’s architecture museum. The changes under Adam Szymczyk are initially emerging through questions about exhibitions, the institution and its audience.
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How temporary structures keep the city running
They guide routes, protect people and make repairs possible: the Architekturzentrum Wien brings the often overlooked infrastructure of the provisional into the spotlight.
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ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
Repurposing churches: who sustains the new cultural venue?
New designs reimagine churches as cultural venues. Bochum makes clear that the crucial question often only arises after the architectural model.
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ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
Panton: How durable is the plastic future?
Panton’s forms have endured. His materials tell a more complicated story — of progress, breakage and the duty to keep using things.
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Kampnagel rebuilds: who gets space in future?
Kampnagel is investing 168 million euros in refurbishing and extending its buildings. For the independent arts scene, the practical test begins during construction.
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Built to Last: What longevity means in design
An exhibition in Cologne makes the case for repairable, circular design. What matters is not just the material, but also what remains possible after purchase.
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How food helps build the city
Food provision leaves its mark on urban space. Brussels and Berlin show how markets, trade and communal kitchens shape neighbourhoods.
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Volkwin Marg and the responsibilities of working at scale
An architect, a large practice, many contributors: Marg’s birthday offers an occasion to discuss responsibility and shared authorship.
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High-rises as city: What the prize assesses
Five finalists, five answers to the question of what a tower can give back to its city – from conversion to green, high-density housing.
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