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CONTENTS FORUM 2/2006

  • Sure you can compete in design!
    • Björn Dahlström is the winner of this year's +1 diploma, Forum's award for the most interesting innovation at the Stockholm Furniture Fair.
  • Publisher: Bonniers
    • GENRE: NON-FICTION/ADVENTURE Following nine long years of appeals and complaints from the neighbours it now stands ready, the Bonnier art gallery, designed by Johan Celsing.
  • Liberty, patchwork, fraternity
    • One room. Two brothers. And an infinity of textile tiles. The Bouroullec brothers have given Kvadrat Sanden a showroom no one knew they wanted. And into the bargain a belief in textile's renaissance in the public arena.
  • The glass menagerie
    • Design goes hand in hand with energy consumption in the winning proposal for the world's most energy-efficient building.
  • The unintentional furniture designer
    • Johannes Norlander is an architect. "But a lot of things have come in between," he excuses himself. Still another furniture collection, for instance, this time produced in collaboration with Forum.
  • Tetris
    • By recycling barracks from oil platforms Helen & Hard has created a form of alternative living, and solved the problems for oil town Stavanger.
  • Anti-monument
    • Two young Finnish architects have unexpectedly gone to the final round in the worldwide contest for the building of a monument commemorating the Thailand tsunami. "Our proposal is not so much monumental as transient, like human life itself."
  • Alien
    • Hollywood's proximity is apparent when Servo design an exhibition in California. "The borderland between art, entertainment and technology is incredibly exciting for an architect," according to the Swedish-German-American design constellation.
  • Scandinavian suburb to Shanghai
    • If you dig a pit deep enough you will get to Sigtuna. Architectural firms around the world are queuing up for a chance to build in China. Sweco FFNS is among the more successful. Their design for a Shanghai suburb is now ready, a copy of a sleepy Swedish town.
  • Forum at the furniture fair
    • Awarding prizes, conducting interviews and celebrating openings - Forum staff had their time well padded at the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2006.
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  • Editors note
  • Filtered
    • 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.
  • Products
    • A guide to the most inspired and inspiring products on the Nordic market just now.
  • The List
    • Architectural visualisation is hard currency in today's image oriented world. Skilfully executed they can ensure a project's success. But getting an overview of this scattered field is far from easy. Forum lists here the five best visualising firms in the Nordic countries.
  • Reviews
    • New projects by C.F. Møller, Heikkinen-Komonen, Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Zuez architects, among others.
  • Balance sheet
    • Time now for the Indian industrial designer Satyendra Pakhalé to come clean.
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