CONTENTS FORUM AID 4.06
- Editors note
- Filtered
Asplund's lab: An unknown treasure is being put in order. Hannes Sigurdsson: A curator praises Icelandic design. Election huts: Growth of popular small buildings. Mood and atmosphere: Geniuses speculate on the role of atmosphere. Jacob Kirkegaard: The man who listens to rooms. Interview competitions: A new way to find the right architect. Mosques: Buildings that excite emotions. Museum boom: Ralph Appelbaum predicts the future.- Products
A guide to the most inspired and inspiring products on the Nordic market just now.- Out of the ashes
Ground Zero is the most symbol-loaded place of our young century. In spite of the mental sores hardly having been healed, the area is about to be filled in. "This is not like any other job on the planet", says Craig Dykers from Norwegian Snøhetta, one of the offices that is fighting to build on the plot.- Timo Salli, the return of the prodigal designer
The +1 relay has come to Finnish ground for the first time. Jeremiah Tesolin, new art director at Nokia, jumped at the task to choose his favourite amongst the new products at Helsinki Design Week. Timo Salli is making a brilliant comeback with the fibre-optical Helsinki lighthouse.- To be and not to be, that is the aim
In Helsingör a star-shaped building is trying to break the bad patterns of psychiatric care. Light instead of darkness, views instead of no views. And a colour palette borrowed from van Gogh.- Bye bye 06, hello 07
On the threshold between two years Forum AID asked 30 architects and designers to cast an eye behind them and look forwards.- Mr Etc
Architect, editor, critic, curator, museum boss, etcetera - Deyan Sudjic's CV is endless. Now he has become chair for the jury of the Forum AID Prize as well.- Resurrection
On an island in the Trondheim fjord eight nuns have found their new home. A building that answered their prayers for 6 million euro, built next to the ruins of a 13th-century convent.- Saltkråkan de luxe
A black painted geometric experiment shows that Stockholm's houses in the archipelago are not what they once were. Thank goodness.- From the chamber to the grave
Thirty-five is no age for a chair, says furniture designer Åke Axelsson. Now his Swedish parliamentary chairs are going into retirement. Forum AID has followed 349 icons to their final destination under the earth.- The list
Board, wood or plastic are still there, but now even the digital world has made its entrance on the shop floor. Forum AID lists the five model builders who master these new tools best in the Nordic area.- Reviews
18 new projects by Dissing + Weitling, Murman, C.F. Møller, Rosenberg, Esa Piironen, Snøhetta and White, amongst others.- Calendar
New department in Forum AID. Read about everything you don't want to miss.- Balance sheet
Volcano Patricia Urquiola has an eruption when she gives her report.
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