Mathmos - Astro Lamps
29.01.21
Failures and mishaps in the creative process.

How does creative design actually come about? Is the development of new ideas always straightforward and are the results always mature? baunetz interior|design uses examples to show that in many cases inspiration is waiting in the most unlikely places and that coincidences, mishaps and failures often play an important role.

Tower C. Image © Brick Visual, Courtesy of ZHA
26.01.21
China’s Shenzhen in a skyscraper fever.

Current architectural projects in China continue to amaze with visionary approaches. This time it is a planned high-rise building in Shenzhen that extends far above the usual. However, it is not the height that defines the uniqueness of the building, but its entrance area.

Kunsthaus Zürich: Erweiterungsbau von David Chipperfield und Projektion «Tastende Lichter» von Pipilotti Rist; Fotos © Juliet Haller, Amt für Städtebau, Zürich
21.01.21
First glimpses of the new Zurich Kunsthaus.

From the outside, it actually already looks quite finished – and there is not much more to be done structurally on the inside either. And yet the extension building by David Chipperfield Architects Berlin, located on Heimplatz, will still remain closed for quite some time.