Architecture - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

The Beauty of the Glitch: Sam Chermayeff on the Messy Reality of Living Together

In the landscape of contemporary design, Sam Chermayeff is a rare voice of radical candor. Known for a practice that...

How new approaches in office spaces are promoting flexibility, creativity, and communication

Spread across five floors totaling 14,000 square meters, the Factory Berlin, Görlitzer Park campus not only boasts multiple community spaces,...

Paris Architecture

Treading socially constructed lines and borders with Paris-based activist magazine The Funambulist

Beginning as a blog in 2010, and then transforming into a podcast in 2013 before becoming a print magazine in...

Architecture Design

How architects and designers are revolutionizing the use of light—and making us feel better in the process

In 1943, while considering the repair of the bomb-ravaged House of Commons, Sir Winston Churchill famously said, “we shape our...

Vorarlberg Architecture

Verena Konrad educates the public about Vorarlberg’s deeply rooted traditions of architecture and craftsmanship

A recent exhibition at the Vorarlberger Architektur Institut (vai) highlights the work of French architects Lacaton & Vassal. Best known...

Berlin Architecture

Effortless design: Mark Randel’s architecture

After 23 years working with David Chipperfield Architects, Mark Randel now focuses on his eponymous studio in Berlin, where he...

Helsinki Architecture

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...

Hamburg Architecture

Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie makes the case for an expanded notion of classical music

It’s an uncharacteristically warm afternoon in February and the observation deck at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie is teeming with visitors. Free to...

Architecture

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...

Paris Architecture

Antonin Ziegler: 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...

Berlin Architecture

Judith Haase fashions a unique architectural language rooted in austerity

Judith Haase is sitting in the laid-back, understated far office in the Gonzalez Haase Atelier Architecture Studio. Over her shoulder,...

Berlin Architecture

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...

Zürich Architecture

Harnessing the power of positive energy with architect Zhang Xi

“Good feng shui, right?” says EXH founding partner and CEO Zhang Xi. She throws open the windows and between the...

Barcelona Architecture

Born out of the Spanish recession, the architectural studio Mesura carries moderation and respect as its core values

It was during the preceding decades, a time associated with the Spanish housing boom, that Benjamin Iborra Wicksteed and Carlos...

Cologne Architecture

How do we want to live? Imagining the future of urban neighborhoods with The Sooner Now

How do we want to live? Imagining the future of urban neighborhoods with The Sooner Now In terms of ingenious...

Leipzig Munich

Casting the anguish and beauty of two cities with Aesop store design in Leipzig and Munich

Barely no other place manifests the history of an entire country like Nikolaistraße, a street that connects Leipzig’s main station...

Tbilisi Architecture

Tblisi: Urban informality in Georgia’s capital

Under communist rule, every single family was meant to be accomodated in urban units. In Tbilisi, many families found homes...

Sheffield Architecture

Victoria Okoye: Cities designed for residents

Over a cup of green tea at The Depot Bakery in Sheffield, the South Yorkshire city where she has been...

London Architecture

Joe Halligan: Changing future cities

As soon as Joe Halligan opens the door to the studio, two of his colleagues head into the communal kitchen...

Los Angeles Architecture

Andrea Lenardin: The shifting meaning of things

At least Andrea Lenardin likes to think so—despite the attribution of a different value throughout time—“the things are also always...