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CONTENTS FORUM AID 3.06

  • Editors note
  • Filtered
    • Crossroads - 510 square meters of mosaic. Gopingpong - children's furniture prize to the design trio. Versta's architects design a new school for a new era. Lene Tranberg wins the C.F. Hansen medal. Bikuben - a cube for 400 students. New Icelandic ambassador's residence in Berlin. Monica Förster makes chairs with a sea effect. Talk Hotel has a screen-printed glass facade.
  • Products
    • A guide to the most inspired and inspiring products on the Nordic market just now.
  • The big black one
    • The +1 baton moves onwards, this time to Denmark. Louise Campbell was given the task of finding her favourite product amongst the novelties at the Copenhagen fair and picked a jet-black lamp by Cecilie Manz. Forum AID talked to both of the designers about the importance of taking chances, the crisis within Danish design and what Caravaggio has to do with it all.
  • Wingårdh D.C.
    • Gert Wingårdh has just completed his most prestigious project to date. It is an embassy on the verge of dissolution.
  • X-men
    • Here are ten (eleven) Nordic graduates whom Forum AID would like to see more of in the future. They are longing for money, freedom and real commissions. One thing is assured: when the bell rings in for a new autumn term they are long gone.
  • The art of capturing an era in a room
    • Mattias Lind and Per Bornstein, unofficial Swedish champions of exhibition architecture, consider museum visitors as moving targets.
  • AA
    • One of Alvar Aalto's most thoroughly designed villas is Maison Carré, a total concept that has been kept secret for a long time now and will shortly be opened to the public for the first time. Forum AID asked the photographer Hélčne Binet to hurry there before the renovation got started in earnest.
  • Mined ground
    • Kiruna is cracking. More than a hundred years of mining has perforated the mountain. It's rather like an earthquake in slow motion. Nonetheless this is where the new Sami court will be built. And possibly dismantled.
  • Turning torso
    • There is a house on the outskirts of Finnish Esbo that screws itself upwards simultaneously as it burrows itself down into philosophic argument. What is a dwelling? How do we want to live?
  • Road sense ā la Norway
    • In 1998 the Norwegian parliament decided that the thing to put Norway on the world map is beautiful roads. Architects, engineers and artists were mobilised for the task. Now the gigantic "Turistvegprosjektet" has come to the half-way stage.
  • The list
    • The best Nordic acousticians are fully booked and the future seems to be unquestionably positive. Simultaneously the area seems to be an impenetrable world of elusive moments. Forum AID lists the Nordic area's five best acoustic specialists.
  • Reviews
    • 18 new projects by Philippe Starck, Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Gert Wingårdh, amongst others.
  • Balance sheet
    • Tom Dixon states his case.
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