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News & Stories | Reports of the 12th Architecture Biennale – exclusively presented by Villeroy & Boch Tiles

On amazement and a cat in the arsenals

by Oliver Elser

Kazuyo Sejima, the Director of the 12th Venice Architecture Biennial, has pulled something special out of the bag with the central exhibition "People meet in Architecture". She has managed to create an atmosphere of light-heartedness in which the opportunities afforded by contemporary architecture as well as the latter's limits are on show without glossing over the weighty issues.

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A Question of Coating

AGC makes available a range of highly specialized solar protection coatings for glass - brand named Stopsol.

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Tea’s traces

by Claudia Beckmann

Antonia Henschel's new magazine is about tea, nothing but tea and bags. "Tea-total" that is, not "teetotal". Abstinence is certainly not on the agenda here.

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When everyday life becomes a discovery

by Sandra Hofmeister

"Hidden Heroes: the Genius of Everyday Things" is the title of a new exhibition at Vitra Design Museum. Not only can you familiarize yourself with these simple heroes of everyday life in the masterfully designed exhibition in the Buckminster Fuller Dome on the Vitra Campus in Weil, but you can explore them online too.

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A traveling house

by Nina Reetzke

One area on which Jean Prouvé focused in his work was prefabricated houses, construction elements and façades. The now legendary Maison Tropicale was one product of this. The prototypes stood in West Africa for almost 50 years and are now on show in a series of exhibitions in Europe and the USA.

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Stonehenge of the oceans

In spring 2010, Henning Larsen's architecture studio in Copenhagen won the competition to design the Batumi Aquarium on the Black Sea. The design plays with images of nature, water and transformation.

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News & Stories | Reports of the 12th Architecture Biennale – exclusively presented by Villeroy & Boch Tiles

High Noon in the Red Salon

by Dirk Meyhöfer

The word "Sehnsucht" (desire) is written above the gold-colored drapes decorat-ing the entrance to the German Pavilion at the Venice Giardini. Inside, a burgundy red salon awaits the visitor, featuring more than 180 representatives of the trade - who each inform us about the depths and shallows of their souls on a single sheet of paper.

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Pool house micro cosmos

What an unusual task: to design a pool house! A pool house made of glass, steel and fabric is light and transparent and a far cry from a tool shed.

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The activist

by Nina Reetzke

In the 1930s, Charlotte Perriand was convinced that it was necessary to fight for a better future. Not only did she strive for new forms in design, but she also sought to improve social conditions through design and architecture. She employed large photo collages on which she had applied layers of writing to communicate her political and social messages. The Museum of Design in Zurich is now holding an exhibition dedicated to these works.

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Artificially grayed larch

A residential house near Munich was given an artificial touch in a bid to better control the wood's natural graying process.

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LED moves to Neuschwanstein

The world-famous Neuschwanstein Castle now boasts a new LED lighting system.

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News & Stories | The City as a Labo for Future Mobility

The train is not a means of transport

by Thomas Wagner

The future of mobility lies in a combination of various transport systems that dove-tail with one another. Train, streetcar and underground play an important role. Transport policy in this country, however, has not yet recognized the advantages of a customer-friendly train.

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