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CONTENTS FORUM AID 2.08

  • Editors note
  • Filtered
    • Hotel as therapy, broken up Chesterfield sofas and houses on precipices. Here you can find what we love right now, books we regret having read and buildings to die for.
  • Products
    • The lamp that stops you reading and other great things to save the summer.
  • The world according to Jacques Herzog
    • Their Olympic arena in Beijing is on its way to surpassing the Great Wall of China on the list of the world’s best known monuments. “The bird’s nest” has cost the lives of ten people – and is a symbol for freedom. Forum AID has met one of the brains of Herzog & de Meuron in Helsinki. Text: Lars Berge. Photo: Fredrik Skogkvist.
  • In the service of dictatorship
    • Until now, few architects have had the chance to design a whole city. However, nothing is the same any more since China’s economy has seriously exploded. Today this is where they can live out their dreams. But a career in the service of dictatorship usually has a price to pay. The question is who, in the long term, is paying for China’s new façade. Text: Benedicte Andersson and Anders Rydell.
  • BIG
    • He designs upside-down hotel complexes, has rock-star status and worships Darwin. And according to rumour is a cunning bugger. We found out who Denmark’s greatest architectural star is. Text: Elsa Westerstad. Photo: Johan Fowelin.
  • Digital display window
    • To surf around Nordic architect offices’ websites should be an orgy of beautiful sights and infectious visions. However that’s generally not the case. We let three experts list the offices that are best at exploiting the net as a form of advertising. Text: Sam Sundberg.
  • Fever induced design
    • As a child he drew figures in the mess left over when his butcher parents had cut up the meat. Today Michaël Bihain designs shelves suitable for couples who are splitting up. We have stalked our latest +1-winner. Text: Klas Ericsson. Photo: Martin Vallin.
  • Arkibúllan
    • Seal architecture, fake sand beaches and a non-religious cemetery. We went to Iceland to meet the women behind the architect office Arkibúllan. And found them in the process of building a crematorium. Text: Daniel Golling. Photo: Auður Þórhallsdóttir.
  • Reviews
    • Our merciless reviewers praise and revile fresh architecture.
  • Calendar
    • We cool off in the summer with graduating students’ exhibitions and festivals. Tear out our alternative to the beach and join us!
  • Mingel
    • Columns
  • Columns
    • Anders Rydell: “Technology-loving gourmets have already begun to print out pastries” Natalia Kazmierska: “Colour has become the new form of communication”
  • Confessions
    • What you didn’t know about Todd Bracher.
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