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CONTENTS FORUM AID 3.07

  • Editors note
  • Filtered
    • Power lines – State-owned Vattenfall turns energy into beauty. Bodrum – You will have to go to Turkey if you want to see the most innovative within Scandinavian holiday living. Finnish churches – Finns are building churches like never before. We wonder why. Smånsk – the Swedish design group which has put the design world in a whirr with some staplers and 10,000 business cards. Copenhagen – the Danish capital is under siege from the international architectural elite. Claesson Koivisto Rune & Henrik Nygren – We look inside the covers of the most attractive monograph in a long time. Shelter Cart – Timo Niskanen’s attempt to design adequate living for those most in need. Sequinfall – Danish Theresa Himmer has created a waterfall of sequins in Iceland. Norwegian tunnels – engineering art with an aesthetic touch for export when Norwegians dig tunnels in China.
  • Products
    • Your guide to the best of Nordic design from the Milan Furniture Fair and highpoints from the fair at Copenhagen.
  • Ground control
    • With help from the neighbourhood teenagers, Ia Hjärre has created Whites Grounds, a skateboard park in an unusual environment that should give a lift to one of London’s shabby housing areas. She tells Forum AID about the commission where the process was as important as the result itself.
  • The catchwords are shiny, aphalt, hard
    • In a shop on Söder in Stockholm, Electric Dreams have given us a foretaste of the City of oil and steel.
  • The class of 07
    • We can’t predict what the future of Nordic design and architecture will look like, but we know who will be designing it. Forum AID presents the ten most promising final-year students from the Nordic countries’ foremost design and architecture schools.
  • A school for its time
    • “Does the teacher still stand at the front of the classroom?” K2S are among the foremost of the young Finnish architectural generation, but they have never felt as old as when they were commissioned to design an IT sixth-form college outside Helsinki.
  • Design day care
    • It’s not often we hear about architecture and design for children. But in Tromsø, Norwegian 70°N Arkitektur has designed a day-care centre that makes us want to move there.
  • Digital patterns
    • This year’s second +1 diploma, Forum AID’s prize for the most interesting new product at the Copenhagen International Furniture Fair, has gone to the innovative fabric Interference. The designer Grethe Sørensen tells of the weaver’s role in the age of the computer.
  • Putting the fun into functional
    • The Scandinavian design map is complete. We have visited Permafrost, one of the companies that have helped to eradicate one white spot in the design world.
  • A cloud on the ground
    • German star architect Jürgen Mayer H left Berlin for a magic and innocent Jutland where he created a cloud house for the theme park Danfoss Universe. It is a building designed to create an image as well as to save Denmark’s future.
  • In praise of speed
    • The rooms became colourful when the Danish design collective Nervous in the Service were let loose on the famous design school.
  • Reviews
    • Forum AID has examined 15 projects by JKMM, Juul Frost, Stein Halvorsen and others.
  • Calendar
    • Topical events in Nordic exhibition halls.
  • Balance sheet
    • Jean-Marie Massaud states his case.
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