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Digital innovation and risk-taking combined with flexibility and curiosity guarantee success in the Austrian province

Jenna Duffy — Wed, 19 May 2021 09:37:26 +0000

We talk to Thomas König, Typico’s CEO, about the enduringly volatile medium of light, the fusion of visionary art with technology, and the building blocks of a stable collaboration. The time when digital printing and innovation were mentioned in the same breath is long gone. The fact that Typico is (re)acting increasingly progressively within this

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We’re living in an era requiring new solutions and visionary thinking, according to designer Harald Gründl of EOOS

Aimee Shirley — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 09:30:11 +0000

“We recently got a call from a manufacturer who wanted to produce a ten-year-old design mock-up of ours,” says Harald Gründl with a smile. In his view, the work of his Viennese design studio EOOS isn’t particularly futuristic – though it’s evidently timeless enough to retain relevance one decade on. “I think that’s pretty typical

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

Aimee Shirley — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 04:00:09 +0000

Spread across five floors totaling 14,000 square meters, the Factory Berlin, Görlitzer Park campus not only boasts multiple community spaces, telephone booths, and meeting areas, but also a cinema, a meditation room and a ball pit. It is, in essence, everything you would expect from a company that prides itself on being “Europe’s largest club

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

Aimee Shirley — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 03:00:41 +0000

In 1943, while considering the repair of the bomb-ravaged House of Commons, Sir Winston Churchill famously said, “we shape our buildings and thereafter they shape us.” More than 70 years on, this statement still resonates because we instinctively know it to be true: entering a high-ceiling museum hall can feel uplifting, an office with a

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

Aimee Shirley — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 12:00:34 +0000

A recent exhibition at the Vorarlberger Architektur Institut (vai) highlights the work of French architects Lacaton & Vassal. Best known for their renovation of Paris’ arts institution Palais de Tokyo, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal have developed methods to refurbish and upgrade the structures they work with. “They re-use, they add to the existing, and

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Harnessing the power of positive energy with architect Zhang Xi

root — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:51:16 +0000

“Good feng shui, right?” says EXH founding partner and CEO Zhang Xi. She throws open the windows and between the fresh air, stunning scenery, and Xi’s presence, positivity flows through the space. The principles of feng shui permeate Xi’s approach to architecture: “It’s about how to maximize the good energy and divert the bad energy,”

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Andreas Waldschütz seeks the other-worldly in his surreal and experimental photographs

root — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 17:25:57 +0000

For a while, creative minds poured into cities looking for jobs, nightlife and vintage apartments. Now, it seems like the rural aesthetic is more attractive—at least that’s how photographer Andreas Waldschütz feels. He and his wife have found a house on a lake in Wandlitz about half an hour north of Berlin and they now

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