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CONTENTS FORUM AID 1.08

  • Editors note
  • Filtered
    • International stars face competition from 27-year-old Esa Ruskeepää. Line Depping makes lamps with a built-in morning cuckoo. Underway: Interactive rooms and other buildings we’re longing for. A floating football arena is hidden at a Norwegian architecture gallery. We love THG’s collaboration with Icelandic Love Corporation. Carlsberg doesn’t just have beer on its mind – it also has upscale architecture.
  • Products
    • Swings for pensioners, sideboard kitchens and mint green eco-heaters. Forum AID presents the top news from Nordic designers and manufacturers.
  • The years with SANAA
    • He got a job with SANAA immediately after graduating. Four years later, Jonas Elding was leading the design work for New Museum in New York. Klas Ericsson has met one of the Nordic region’s most promising architects.
  • Architecture 2.0
    • Soon online games will determine how things are in reality. Virtual worlds are already the architect’s best exhibition hall. We sent Anders Rydell to a beautiful 3D MySpace for architects.
  • Giulio Cappellini
    • Elsa Westerstad got cosy on the sofa with one of the world’s greatest design legends to talk about his passion, family and the setback that could have cost him his life.
  • Wagner on water
    • Snøhetta’s opera rises from the water like a spaceship. And like a beach, its marble wall is gathering driftwood. Johan Fowelin has immortalised The Norwegian Opera.
  • Style dictatorship
    • Only dictators can measure themselves against Swedish civil servants. Forum AID tries to find out how the experts determine what beauty is. And how they measure it.
  • Reviews
    • Our merciless reviewers sink their teeth into eight new projects from Jukka Keskitalo, Tegnestuen Vandkunsten and Lederer + Ragnarsdóttir + OEI, amongst others.
  • Calendar
    • In April we are admiring light architecture in Frankfurt and in May we are going to Reykjavik. Join us and read our events guide!
  • Columns
    • Anders Rydell: “Nordic design doesn’t need another creator at the drawing board – we need a biologist.” Anna Hellsten: “I like cities that look like fairytale interiors.”
  • Confessions
    • What you didn’t know about Mike and Maaike.
  • Forum AID Award supplement
    • The Nordic region's most comprehensive design and architecture competition has taken place. Read about the top buildings, interiors and products and about the jury in the competition supplement.
  • Retail
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