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Plot with their VM buildings are this year's winner of the Forum Prize for the best building in the Nordic area. At their office are models of, amongst others, the VM buildings and the roof terrace for the department store Magasin du Nord. Photo Johan Fowelin.- The three little Finns
Once upon a time there were three small Finns. One day they each decided to build their own house.- Home on the range
When the owners returned to the old family farm after several years abroad, they encountered a small bare cement box designed by architect Knut Hjeltnes.- Piano accompaniment
The architects 3xN's extension to Tivoli's classic concert hall is an unobtrusive and beautiful problem solver.- Hertz Rent-A-Space Plane
Ready for weightlessness? For 125,000 Swedish kronor the experience can be yours, in a Russian transport plane with a new interior by space designer Cecilia Hertz.- The greenhouse effect
Four years ago the Furniture Fair in Stockholm initiated Greenhouse, a hall for young designers. Forum roots around amongst the fertile topsoil that is the result and notes six of this year's most budding exhibitors.- Utopia
In May 1935 an unknown Swede called Erik Swedlund won a housing competition in the Czech community of Zlin. The jury's chairman was Le Corbusier, brought there by the embodiment of town as machine. Forum went there and found a place full of »Swedlunders«.- The Forum Prize 2005
From the mountains of Svalbard to a beach in Copenhagen, Forum hands out prizes to the year's best Nordic buildings.- ALWAYS
- Reflections
Poul Kjærholm exhibits at Louisiana. Gudrun Lilja Gunnlaugsdottir designs "antique" furniture in Flat Pack packages. M4LH2's nightclub concept for the Silja Line. Eero Aarnio, at age 74, renews Artek. The artist Lars Arrhenius creates stylised documentary soap operas. Thomas Nordström has operated a pulsating fleshy organ onto the roof of Sahlgrenska Hospital. "Copenhagen is the new Berlin," claims Scaledenmark, and provides a guide to the new architecture. Magne Magler Wiggen has designed a container gallery. Oslo's largest shopping mall has been fitted out in high-tech dress by A-Lab.- Filter
• It looks like a piece by Zaha Hadid, but is Malmö's new skateboard park. • Guðbjörg Gissurardóttir is an Icelandic design matriarch in the making. • Frustratingly few of Fritz Hansen's conceptual furniture pieces have been put into production, something the company is now getting to grips with by releasing not one, but two, collections per year. • Reed Kram is Rem Koolhaas's favourite innovator who has just designed a stage for - the Swedish Social Democrats. • In November the Klink & Bank building, headquarters for Reykjavik's art and design world, was emptied; what happens now? • Danish Oeo is a very unusual design agency. • Europe's largest architectural competition right now is for Karolinska Hospital's premises in Stockholm. • It wasn't Frank Gehry, nor Daniel Libeskind or David Chipperfield; the architecture competition for the Polish-Jewish museum was won by the Finnish firm of Lahdelma & Mahlamäki.- Infill
A guide to the most inspirational and inspiring products on the Nordic market right now.- Perspectives
Reviews of new projects from, amongst others, Finnish JKMM, Danish Lundgaard & Tranberg, Norwegian Reiulf Ramstad and Swedish-Danish Henrik Jais-Nielsen & Mats White.- Blueprint
Who did what? And what have they done before? Plot, Knut Hjeltnes, Cecilia Hertz, and the rest of this issue's main characters search through the archives.- Outfill
Time now for Erwan Bouroullec, one of the dynamic French brothers, soon in the limelight with the new showroom for the textile company Kvadrat in Stockholm, to declare himself.
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