CONTENTS FORUM AID 2.07
- Editors note
- Filtered
Identical twins - Poltrona Frau dangerously close to a Norwegian classic
Agricultural design - farmer looking for architect looking for new typologies
City on fire - artist pair set fire to cultural heritage
Esa Vesmanen - the kitchen Koe is based on the four elements
Vatsnmýri - Reykjavik's old airfield to be built on
Clarion Hotel Sign - silence behind the contentious facade
Fröbank - mankind's lifeline is being built on Svalbard
Nano lab - the building where no vibrations are good vibrations
Kivik Art Center - Snøhetta's pavilion is the first one to be completed- Products
A guide to the most inspiring and inspired products from this year's Stockholm Furniture Fair- Scavenger
Mathias Bengtsson is the designer who works on such pioneering techniques that he hardly dare talk about it. Although he sees himself more as a scavenger.- Faith, hope and nuclear power
On an island a hundred kilometres north of Åbo, Finland is beating the European record in building nuclear power. If Chernobyl is history, the future is here. Forum AID's reporter Lars Åberg and photographer Pekka Nittyvirta went to Olkiluoto 3 to find out how you cultivate development optimism with PowerPoint and concrete.- I get lots of ideas but not so many good ones
Damian Williamson is the winner of the first of this year's +1 diplomas, Forum AID's prize for the most interesting innovation at the Stockholm Furniture Fair.- Springtime for the bunker
By placing a glass home on top of what was once designed to protect people from bombs and hand grenades, a Nazi bunker has acquired a new life. This is the tale of how two architects and an ardent art collector rebuilt history in the middle of Berlin. - Night at the museums
Forum AID has charted and awarded marks to the five architecture museums in the Nordic area. It is a gloomy bunch. The only glimmer of hope is the Danish Architecture Centre, a lavish institution with medial leadership and bright future prospects (although without their own collections).- Fehnix
Eighty-two-year-old Sverre Fehn, Pritzker prize-winner 1997, is generally considered Norway's foremost architect. But few Oslo inhabitants have ever seen a building he has designed. This year they will get the chance when the new architecture museum is inaugurated. "It's in the nick of time," says the museum's responsible official.- Crash
Varnish is juxtaposed with wood fibres in a car salesroom that is more furniture than architecture.- Twisted guts
Jan Olav Jensen and Børre Skodvin, winners of this year's architectural prize, are on their way to realise their first major foreign project, a health resort in Austria.- Reviews
16 new projects including Entasis, Studio Granda and Acne.- VIP
On Tuesday, February 6 the Forum AID Awards were awarded for 2007- Calendar
Topical events in Nordic exhibition halls- Balance sheet
Time for Konstantin Grcic to state his case
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