Architect Dialogues - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF) https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/tag/architect-dialogues/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 10:35:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Exploring the changing landscape of Finnish design with interior architect Joanna Laajisto https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/architecture/exploring-the-changing-landscape-of-finnish-design-with-interior-architect-joanna-laajisto/ https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/architecture/exploring-the-changing-landscape-of-finnish-design-with-interior-architect-joanna-laajisto/#respond Mon, 15 Apr 2019 05:39:05 +0000 http://localhost:8888/friendsoffriends-migration/2019/04/15/exploring-the-changing-landscape-of-finnish-design-with-interior-architect-joanna-laajisto/ Joanna Laajisto is back at work in her storefront studio on Laivasillankatu, close to the main port of Helsinki after spending the month of July on holiday. Like many Finns, Laajisto takes this time to retreat, spending it with her family at their summer house in Karjalohja and has only just returned to the sweltering

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]]> https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/architecture/exploring-the-changing-landscape-of-finnish-design-with-interior-architect-joanna-laajisto/feed/ 0 Marc Koehler wants to build cities of the future, one flexible, sustainable community at a time https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/architecture/marc-koehler-wants-to-build-cities-of-the-future-one-flexible-sustainable-community-at-a-time/ https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/architecture/marc-koehler-wants-to-build-cities-of-the-future-one-flexible-sustainable-community-at-a-time/#respond Wed, 27 Mar 2019 05:00:43 +0000 http://localhost:8888/friendsoffriends-migration/2019/03/27/marc-koehler-wants-to-build-cities-of-the-future-one-flexible-sustainable-community-at-a-time/ As an award-winning architect with his own architecture firm, Koehler’s childhood imagined cities have now developed into something far beyond a few lines on scraps of paper. Superlofts, the adaptable design for urban villages, are Koehler’s attempt at changing the future of our cities into an environment that fosters creativity, social cohesion, and a new

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]]> https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/architecture/marc-koehler-wants-to-build-cities-of-the-future-one-flexible-sustainable-community-at-a-time/feed/ 0 Antonin Ziegler: Industrial yet serene residences https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/architecture/architect-antonin-ziegler-transforms-humble-structures-into-industrial-yet-serene-residences/ https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/architecture/architect-antonin-ziegler-transforms-humble-structures-into-industrial-yet-serene-residences/#respond Thu, 07 Mar 2019 17:29:09 +0000 http://localhost:8888/friendsoffriends-migration/2019/03/07/architect-antonin-ziegler-transforms-humble-structures-into-industrial-yet-serene-residences/ “What makes Le 107 work is a mix of verticality and openness. It only has a 28 square-meter footprint, but it feels a lot bigger than it is.” “As a teenager, I loved to venture across the city at night, watching the urban landscape unfold,” he says. The lasting impression sparked a trajectory. After studies

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]]> https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/architecture/architect-antonin-ziegler-transforms-humble-structures-into-industrial-yet-serene-residences/feed/ 0 Room for inventions with the tech-focused architecture firm Barkow Leibinger https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/architecture/room-for-inventions-with-the-tech-focused-architecture-firm-barkow-leibinger/ https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/architecture/room-for-inventions-with-the-tech-focused-architecture-firm-barkow-leibinger/#respond Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:15:32 +0000 http://localhost:8888/friendsoffriends-migration/2019/02/18/room-for-inventions-with-the-tech-focused-architecture-firm-barkow-leibinger/ Nestled between a handsome collection of hipster bicycles stands a colossal iron structure. This unfathomably heavy historical landmark is adorned with larger-than-life wheels and a sheet-metal bending machine from the industrial age. A few steps up, in the model building shop on the mezzanine floor, the operation is still up and running—machines hum along, bundling,

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