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CONTENTS FORUM AID 4.07

  • Editors note
  • Debate
    • Joanna Zawieja has a passion for those things that will never be built.
  • Filtered
    • Sweet architecture – Norwegian company Se.arkitekter make models from wafers. Acne – Andreas Fornell designs shops with the same attitude as a fashion designer. iBar – The future is here already. Twenty four is the world’s first interactive bar. Pierre Sindre – Chairs in sensual net, with wheelbarrow functions or a down-pillow look. Pop design – Mari Relander and Katriina Lankinen are two up-and-coming Finnish designers. Klaus Haapaniemi – Everything from Seven Eleven design to haute couture textiles. In the making – Denmark’s tallest high-rise building and other buildings we look forward to. Egypt’s seventh oasis – Konrad Milton explains why we have to transgress all the laws of nature. Snedkernes late years – furniture fit for a party in one’s autumnal years.
  • Products
    • Giorgio Armani´s favorite floor and luminous furniture. Forum AID presents the best innovations from Nordic designers and producers.
  • The story of a drinks straw
    • Hlynur Atlason Margret Atladottir has interviewed an Icelandic designer who makes drink mats of cute squirrels and finds it hard to see why people want to pay for his design.
  • Like a bar code
    • The design of Oslo’s new port area was modelled on a barcode. We have looked carefully at the first completed building, and found out what to expect from Barcode.
  • Alvar Aaltos legacy
    • +1 The architect office Heikkinen-Komonen grabbed the +1-diploma at Habitare in spite of the fact that it is actually only awarded to designers. Johanna Koljonen has met Mikko Heikkinen.
  • The John Cassavetes of architecture
    • Knut Hjeltnes Architecture’s indie. Knut Hjeltnes is one of Norway’s most interesting architects, but not many people know about him. We have looked at the most recent house by an architect who seems to be content with having become ensnared in one area.
  • With a dragon logo
    • Far Eastern Antiquities Tham & Videgård Hansson are architectural stars who retain their edge by continuing to take on small design commissions.
  • Norways Furniture Dallas
    • Sykkylven Robots and fluffy leather monsters. Forum AID went to Norway’s furniture Dallas and found something too ugly to be pictured.
  • Cracks in the concrete
    • Verkatehdas Rust, brick and old factories. Forum AID examines a new unexpected side of JKMM.
  • Recipe for the good life
    • Clarion Hotel Sign Stockholm’s largest hotel is a black granite design ark, in an area of town previously characterised as a gangsters’ haunt.
  • Reviews
    • Our tough reviewers have looked at 15 projects, including some by Henning Larsen Architects, Arkís and Lahdelma & Mahlamäki.
  • Calendar
    • In December we go and look at Alexander Lervik’s brain and in January we go to Paris. Read about what’s going on and join us.
  • Column
    • Lars Berge loves illusions.
  • Balance sheet
    • Frank state their case.
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