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Posts tagged 'Mies van der Rohe'

Mecanoo transforms Mies van der Rohe’s MLK Library

The Washington DC library honouring the civil rights leader has been revitalised with new spaces, a public roof garden and a social focus Dutch architecture

Architecture

Neue Nationalgalerie reopens after ‘surgical’ restoration by David Chipperfield

The iconic Berlin gallery designed by Mies van der Rohe underwent an extensive refurbishment which balanced conservation with future needs The Neue Nationalgalerie, the modernist

Architecture
Form follows function: Modernism’s guiding principles

Form follows function: Modernism’s guiding principles

The Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier is one of the most recognisable example of a modernist house In the first half of the twentieth century,

Architecture
The Barcelona Chair: A modernist classic

The Barcelona Chair: A modernist classic

The Barcelona Chair is one of the most recognisable and iconic designs of the last century. Still frequently used in interiors, the chair epitomises elegance

Design

Neue Nationalgalerie by Mies van der Rohe

Why Mies van der Rohe’s final building is perhaps his most iconic. By Beatrice Galilee It was in Berlin that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe began

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An architectural tour of Barcelona’s iconic buildings

  Everyone knows that Barcelona houses the many peculiar works of Antoni Gaudi, but here are a few other buildings that you should know about

Architecture

Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion heralded the modernist era

The Barcelona Pavilion was a hugely significant temporary structure that forms part of the early modernist canon of architecture Designed by modernism’s golden child Mies

Architecture

Mies van der Rohe: From the Bauhaus to the height of modernism

German-American architect Mies van der Rohe is one of the pioneers of the modernist movement, devising in a paper sketch the world’s first glass skyscraper

Architecture

How the Bauhaus Museum in Weimar uses architecture to link the design movement to Germany’s past and present

 Visualisation of the detail on the front of the Bauhaus Museum in Weimar. Image courtesy of the Heike Hanada Laboratory of Art and Architecture In

Architecture

The only chair design that changed the world

  It’s the only chair that can truly claim to have changed the world. Elizabeth Guffey asks why it’s rarely included in the design canon From modern

Design

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Lucas Zito explores the evolving design capabilities of 3D printing

Meet MVE-Collection: The design studio transforming construction waste into statement furniture and objects

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Copenhagen Architecture Biennial slows down to highlight caring approaches to people and the planet

Interface Design Studio: End to end inspiration

Harriet Allure’s Zenzi candle weaves together Swedish minimalism and Ghanaian heritage

Dubai Design Week 2025: Isola launches its new Isola Space and unveils three curated exhibitions

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LAYER designs a modular foam-free camping mattress system for sleep start-up MAZZU

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Copenhagen Architecture Biennial slows down to highlight caring approaches to people and the planet

Il Sereno chair

The newly opened Darsena Listening Suite at Il Sereno in Lake Como is a playground for audiophiles

How Lake Como Design Festival became the quiet leader of a slow, local design revolution

Architects join forces to design birdhouse project for charity auction at Christie’s

24th exhibition Triennale

Triennale Milano presents 24th International Exhibition under the title Inequalities

Lee Broom unveils his first Landmark commission for London Design Festival

Architectural practice Local Local unveils a new contemporary art gallery in the heart of Athens

Archikon Architects prefabricated panel Hungary smart kindergarten

Archikon Architects uses prefabricated panel structure to build Hungary’s first smart kindergarten

DAC

Meet Me Here exhibition by Spacon & X at Danish Architecture Center explores community and sense of place in a digital world


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Henry Holland Studio unveils its inaugural furniture collection

Flos fuses craft and technology in its reissue of the 1963 Seki-Han Floor Lamp by Tobia Scarpa


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Lucas Zito explores the evolving design capabilities of 3D printing

Meet MVE-Collection: The design studio transforming construction waste into statement furniture and objects

Engel-Architects-Nikolaj-Kunsthal-@-2022-Paolo-Galgani-16

Copenhagen Architecture Biennial slows down to highlight caring approaches to people and the planet

Interface Design Studio: End to end inspiration

Harriet Allure’s Zenzi candle weaves together Swedish minimalism and Ghanaian heritage

Dubai Design Week 2025: Isola launches its new Isola Space and unveils three curated exhibitions

Frama Petit Rond

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

LAYER designs a modular foam-free camping mattress system for sleep start-up MAZZU

kaska Harasym

How Poland’s economic boom is fuelling a design revolution