A Barn Reborn
Photo Kuvatoimisto Kuvio / Anders Portman Weathered wooden planks from an old barn inspired Avanto Architects to design a pitch black facade. The seemingly simple storage building for whiskey barrels required material testing and novel thinking.
Dressing the Icon
Anna & Eugeni Bach, Mies Missing Materiality, 2018. Photo Adrià Goula The Finnish-Spanish architect duo Anna and Eugeni Bach are active cultural operators in Barcelona.
A Light New Seedbed
Photo Tuomas Uusheimo As something of a novelty amongst Helsinki’s shopping destinations, Garden offers a new kind of space for Finnish fashion and design. The architectural design plays an exceptionally strong role in the retail concept.
Long-awaited History of the Luminaire Factory
The new book presents the history of Orno chronologically via its designers.
We Need Utopias – German professor on Bauhaus centennial
In Bauhaus centennial, professor Harald Kegler sees missed opportunities of reaching out more than only opening new exhibitions.
Slow Thinking
Conversations about Sculpture includes thirteen thematic conversations on sculptor Richard Serra’s life and work.
The Bauhaus Is Dead, Long Live the Bauhaus!
For the celebrations of the Bauhaus centennial, three German cities are opening and building new Bauhaus museums. The feedback on the projects has been controversial, reports Korbinian Schütze.
Beauty Matters – Just Like Love, It’s Real
Architects should start talking about beauty again and find new definitions for it, suggests Yael Reisner, the main curator of TAB 2019.
100 Years of Bauhaus School and the Need for New Perspectives
Anja Neidhardt brings into question the complicated history of Bauhaus and introduces new interpretations that broaden our understanding of the design school.