Pool

2.05. Summer.

  • The Office
    • Work has never been more fun. At least not for the Danish Minister of Culture.
  • Fair trial
    • Forum picks its favourites from Stockholm Furniture Fair 2005 and awards Eero Koivisto the +1 diploma.
  • Capped
    • The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki has been given a new roof canopy, a high-tech replica of the existing one from 1938.
  • Norwegian Wood
    • Geir Brendeland and Olav Kristoffersen have designed a pioneering wooden building for a Norwegian hippie collective.
  • Design für alle
    • 2005 is Design Year. All Nordic countries are making great efforts. Forum compares the five and concludes that design can be anything and everything. If you trust those responsible.
  • High school drop out
    • The new university school of education in Malmö has been nicknamed The Hulk. It turns out to have been well named, for the project has proved a pretty uncontrollable monster.
  • The Karlsson code
    • On a research trip to Shanghai the young design student, Mats Karlsson, gets a vision. He wants to design, produce and sell a collapsible paper house. All he needs to do is to crack a unique code.
  • ALWAYS
  • Isitt
  • Reflections
  • Filter
    • ALA Architects win the contest for building a concert hall in Kristiansand. Ina Nicolic makes bedclothes – literally. Research and development breathes fresh life into old artefacts. Steffen Schmelling designs a heavy-weight china exhibition. Kari Aandal forecasts the future of fridges. Wingårdh’s designs an acoustic cloud. Fredrik Pettersson takes a dip in Kastrup’s sea bathing establishment. Small Architecture defy the laws of gravity.
  • Perspectives
    • Architecture is even for those who are not architects, says professor Louise Nyström, and explains why she has left the Swedish Council for Architecture, Form and Design. »The Council signals a return to an oldfashioned, elitist and outdated approach to architecture.« In addition, reviews of twelve buildings and interior designs by, among others, Lomar arkitekter, Snøhetta, Dorte Mandrup and Pekka Helin.
  • Infill
    • Louise Campbell, Eero Koivisto, Brendeland & Kristoffersen the others presented in this issue take this chance to look back.
  • Blueprint
    • Who did what?
  • Outfill
    • Time now for the French designer Inga Sempré to declare herself. Ideally she’d like dinner with Vico Magistretti – »he’s said to be a great cook.«
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