Architect

C 95 Architekten, Berlin

Lighting designer

C 95 Architekten, Berlin

Photographer

J. L. Diehl

About the project

After spending years in the creative centre of Berlin, the developers yearned for a quiet place close to nature. At the same time, however, they did not want to give up the feeling of urban living that they had come to know and love over the years from one day to the next. An intensive collaboration with the architects at C 95 therefore resulted in a prototype that implements all the benefits of urban living in a modern single-family house and that nevertheless fits perfectly into the surrounding nature despite all extravagances and going beyond traditional country house charm. In brief: The loft and its unique feeling of living were carefully relocated to the countryside. The central motif of the cubic building, which appears introverted from the street and only opens up to the expanse of the south-facing garden, is the exorbitant living room from which the structure is built at angles. “Cupboard-like” supply rooms surround the open-plan layout on the ground floor, private zones on the upper floor surround a “room in the open air”, and a single-storey annex accommodates the guest area and at the same time includes the terrace. The dark-brown, almost black wood facade picks up the colour of the oak trees on the site and gives the house a strong presence. Indoors, calm structures create a clear, almost minimalist atmosphere in accordance with the loft idea. Large sliding doors made from glass and other glass surfaces distributed across the entire facade in various formats remove the borders between indoors and outdoors and integrate the greatest possible amount of natural space and light into the architecture. Overall, the lifestyle celebrated in the LIN quite deliberately addresses the group of young creative types who have so far been unable to see themselves in the usual offering of prefabricated house concepts.

Architect

D-Mix, Palma de Mallorca

Lighting designer

D-Mix, Palma de Mallorca

Photographer

Fernando Alda

Architect

YODEZEEN Architects

Lighting designer

Svetlana Osadcha

Photographer

Andrii Shurpenkov

Product information

Shape It 40, Ethea

Architect

Friis Moltke Architects

Lighting designer

anker & co

Photographer

Kris Dekeijser

Product information

SHAPE IT 25, ETHEA

Architect

STUDIO WG3

Photographer

Heldentheater

Product information

Architect

OBIA architecture studio Sofia

Lighting designer

Ambitio Ltd., Sofia

Photographer

Svetoslav Karadjov / studio Dizzart, Georgi Ivanov

Architect

DIPL. HTL Ing. Helmut Perner, Preding

Photographer

Foto Augenblick

Architect

BDP Architecture,

Photographer

David Barbour

Product information

SHAPE IT 40, LINEAIR, Ethea

Architect

ARCGENCY Architects

Lighting designer

anker & co

Photographer

Kris Dekeijser

Product information

SHAPE IT 25

Photographer

André Herger Fotografie GmbH

Product information

Rota

Architect

Brem+Zehnder AG, Muhen

Lighting designer

Brem+Zehnder AG, Muhen

Photographer

Brem+Zehnder AG

Product information

SHAPE IT SYSTEM

Architect

GMF Architecten

Photographer

Kris Dekeijser

Product information

SHAPE IT 25,

Architect

i29

Lighting designer

Lichtconsult

Photographer

Ewout Huibers

Product information

SHAPE IT 25

Architect

HEIKAUS Architektur GmbH

Photographer

Martin Baitinger

Contemporary meeting place

Lovers of architecture, design, art, music, and good food will find what they are looking for in the public areas of the hotel. The architects fitted the austere interior – raw concrete with massive columns and exposed metal pipes – with timeless Scandinavian furniture, modern sculptures, and contemporary works of art.

Architect

DI Matthias Viehhauser, Salzburg

Photographer

Martin Lugger Photography

Architect

BKS Architekten, Hamburg

Lighting designer

BKS Architekten and Engineer’s Office Gerhardt Reiner, Hamburg

Photographer

Ralf Buscher

Architect

s k y l i n e a r c h i t e k t e n ZT GmbH, Vienna

Lighting designer

Peter Andres beratene Ingenieure für Lichtplanung GbR, Hamburg

Photographer

Pierer.net kg

New light for Swedish art treasures

How can daylight and modern lighting technology find harmony in historical buildings? What are the limits of illumination in the context of art? Answers can be found in the newly revamped National Museum Stockholm. Friedrich August Stüler designed the building in 1866 to be a museum flooded with natural light. As part of the renovation, Wingårdhs Architects and Kardorff Ingenieure Lichtplanung set about rekindling this potential. "The special thing about a naturally lit museum is not just the light," says Gabriele von Kardorff, Managing Director of Kardorff Ingenieure. "It is also the revelation of the view of the historic environment while one is in a room with the treasures of the land."

Architect

ROOMS GmbH, Ebenthal

Photographer

Philipp Schuster

Lighting designer

Ratec licht, Lindenberg

Photographer

Zoo Braun Fotografie,

Architect

Friis Moltke Architects

Lighting designer

anker & co

Photographer

Kris Dekeijser

Product information

MOVE IT 25, TULA

Architect

Exclusiva Design, Roma

Lighting designer

Mama Design, Frascati

Photographer

Massimo Camplone photo studio