| A new school of thought: education projects that really teach us something | | | Creative, innovative and outside-the-box thinking in education architecture serves not only to build schools that optimise learning conditions, it also drives architects and designers to find solutions that work for the environment. | | From hospital to music academy
The conversion of the Sebastian hospital in Nuremberg into a music school is a beautiful example of how a historic building can be transformed without sacrificing quality. All new portals, windows and window doors are made of steel. | | | Flying colours: chromatic school spaces | | Colour is a powerful tool – not least when it’s deployed in education projects, where a judicious chromatic specification can boost concentration, performance and well-being. | | | | 'Furniture is often more important in our lives than architecture,' says the celebrated Japanese architect, as he discusses his long-term collaboration with Japanese producer TIME & STYLE.
| | | IT DOESN'T GET ANY MORE COLOURFUL THAN THIS: JAKOB SCHLAEPFER | | With its creative new fabric and wallpaper collections, Swiss fabric-firework specialist JAKOB SCHLAEPFER supplies planners and designers with the tools they need for realising truly extraordinary interior projects.
| | | German water project specialists OASE don’t manufacture water features, rather they are in the business of utilising water and light to create perfectly personalised garden architecture.
| | GIVE PEE A CHANCE: SAVE! FROM LAUFEN
| | When it comes to innovation, Swiss bathroom specialists LAUFEN aren't for taking things sitting down. Except, of course, if it's their game-changing save! separation toilet...
| | | | | | After-school centre, Berlin, by Mono Architekten | | Mono Architekten's After-school centre for the Waldorf School in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, is docked onto the school building on the courtyard side and stretches like a chain of honeycomb structures towards the sports hall. The structure's green roofs achieve a sculptural appearance with the sloping in different directions of the wooden facades. | | Microsorber® by Barrisol
Suspended panels, partitions on feet, partitions on casters or Roll Up, you have the choice! Acoustic optimisation & light transparency | ETFE that is resistant to UV
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| | LAVA was founded in 2007 by directors, Chris Bosse, Tobias Wallisser and Alexander Rieck. LAVA merges future technologies with the patterns of organisation found in nature to build a smarter, friendlier, more socially and environmentally responsible future. LAVA combines digital workflow, nature’s structural principles and the latest digital fabrication technologies. | | Nothing changes with Planning Sisplamo
We offer you a collection of solutions for the new workspace reality, that will allow us to be upbeat and positive. Protection, security and social distance ensured by transparent and discreet dividing screens that will allow us to return to the office as if nothing had happened. Easy!
| | As part of our monthly giveaway, you can win one of ten Wilkhahn AT Mesh office chairs.
| | Half, Praise of the Moon
Taking the ultimate simplicity of a circle and subtle movements, Half collection, designed by Francesc Rifé for Milan Iluminación, performs new choreographies of light, dancing in the air and rotating on itself. A true emotional interpretation of the moon.
| | | Back in (virtual) action...
| | | Smart Workspace Design Summit – Virtual Edition
3–4 June 2020 | | | Meet the Design District Architects: Jemima Burrill in conversation with Hannah Corlett, Founding Director of HNNA
5 June 2020 @ 2pm CEST | | | NeoConnect 2020 – Design 2030: The Next Next
8 June 2020 @ 10am CDT (5pm CEST) | | | San Francisco Design Week 2020 (virtual design festival)
15–25 June 2020 | | | And want to advertise in a future issue?
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