Rising sea levels and a lack of affordable housing is becoming a global problem. Danish architects BIG have developed a floating city concept made up of hexagonal islands. The city can hold around 10,000 residents. It is also able to produce its own power, fresh water, and heat.
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Milan Design Week and the furniture fair Salone del Mobile take place this week in Milan. Form Magazine's Editor-in-chief Bo Madestrand is there and he publishes pictures of what he sees on Instagram!
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Organized for the first time ever, the Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale consists of three exhibitions supported by parallel programme. It will open to the public 19 May 2019. The design ensemble is curated by designer Jasper Morrison. Meet some of the designers here!
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Last year, the Swedish initiative HEMMA – Stories from Home received much acclaim at the Milan Furniture Week. The exhibition, which was shown in a space in the Brera design area, brought together some of Sweden's leading designers and companies in a holistic depiction by design studio Joyn. And here comes the sequel. Under the title HEMMA Gone Wild, around 20 companies are taking part, from large producers like Blå Station, Bolon and EFG, to smaller projects like Lisa Hilland's new brand Mylhta, Vandra Rugs and students from HDK, Beckmans and from the design award Ung Svensk Form.
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DesignMarch is Iceland’s annual design festival. It takes place for the eleventh time on 28–31 March 2019. Over one hundred events transform the most northerly capital in the world into one big venue for design.
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Sienapriset delas ut av Sveriges Arkitekter för att främja god utemiljö och tilldelas ett objekt och dess arkitekt. Priset är en hedersutmärkelse i form av diplom samt reliefplakett som sitter på det belönade objektet. Vinnaren blev Jubileumsparken i Göteborg som tog emot priset på årets Arkitekturgala som ägde rum den 19 mars på Konserthuset i Stockholm.
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Yesterday, architect Anna Chavepayre from collectif encore received the finest architecture award in Sweden, the Kasper Salin Prize, at Konserthuset in Stockholm. She was awarded for Hamra Ateljébostad, a private studio home in Hamra, Gotland.
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Architecture studio Precht has developed a fully modular building system, which is prefabricated offsite and flat-packed delivered by trucks. The residents produce their own food in vertical farms. It’s an attempt to reconnect people in the city with the process of growing food.
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Central public gardens form the social heart of the 155,000 m2 urban masterplan Humlestaden outside Gothenburg, Sweden - designed to reframe city life through a green lens.
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Suur-Merijoki Manor in Viipuri Province was a Finnish Art Nouveau masterpiece, a ‘total work of art’ that became one the most famous Finnish homes of its era. The exhibition at Museum of Finnish Architecture reawakens the former glory of the perished manor designed by the young architect trio Herman Gesellius (1874–1916), Armas Lindgren (1874–1929) and Eliel Saarinen (1873–1950).
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Snøhettas new project, a Museum Quarter in Bolzano, will provide magnificent views in the landscape of surrounded Virgl Mountain in northern Italy. The new cultural area will include South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology and the Municipal Museum of Bolzano, along with the planned Bolanzo car structure which is also designed by Snøhetta. The roof of the building aims to serve as a terrace for public space for different activities like open-air markets and concerts. If built the museum will also be the new home for Ötzi the iceman.
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The Norwegian studio Arkitektværelset took the challenge of designing a cabin high situated on top of mountain Imingfjell, in Norway. With strict building rules, difficult weather conditions and risk of avalanches, the back of the cabin has come to look like a protective hood. The hood has practical functions, and at the same time is creating a contrasting and strong geometric shape between the black painted cabin and the angled roof panel.
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This spring, Fotografiska's large exhibition hall will be filled with the evocative world of one of Sweden's most loved and rebellious visual artists. Jesper Waldersten's universe resembles no other – and with a fair amount of black humour, his first photographic exhibition, Waldersten – All Over, offers both a strong sense of recognition and intimate insight into his creative process.
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The Danish Government and Hvidovre Municipality have agreed to commence efforts to establish a state-of-the-art business district in extension of the current Avedøre Holme. The new business district – to be known as “Holmene” – combines great business potential with high environmental standards.
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When Kieran Long became director at ArkDes two years ago, he inherited an institution in crisis. But is the situation any better? Leonidas Aretakis tells of a museum where daily rebukes and sudden dismissals have become part of life. Kieran Long's explanation: “There was a lack of talent.”
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The whole city of Kiruna continues to move three kilometers away and the first new building on site was Kiruna town hall in November last year, designed by the Danish studio Henning Larsen. By moving the clock tower from Kiruna's old town hall, designed in 1958 by Artur von Schmalensee, and placing it next to the new building, it has created a physical and visual connection to the city's past.
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On Saturday the 23 February, the Röhsska museum opens again after two years of organizational restructure and rebuild. The museum will welcome visitors to a programme that opens up a dialogue about the notion of design and its impact on our everyday lives.
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Located in the woods of Finnskogen, "the Finnish Forest", in east Norway, these cabins offer a different forest retreat. Spruce and pine have been used as material for floors, walls and furniture. The cabins are designed with a simple geometry that gives the small living rooms an extraordinary height of over five meters.
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Today the new VOIR font is released. It is a personal and super-thin typeface designed by art director Pompe Hedengren and typeface designer Göran Söderström. They have been working on the font for two years.
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Oslo-based architects Spinn has designed a unique cabin concept in the Norwegian town of Hammerfest, inspired by the beautiful nature of the place. The cabin's shape is based on a 3D laser scans of the surrounding, rocky terrain. The rounded, outer shape remains weatherproof, covered with roofing felt and an outer screen of wood treated with flames.
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