Furniture Design Ideas

  The building melts into the landscape and is sensitively integrated into the surrounding nature. The water cascade has a dynamic optic which can be well appreciated from inside the building. The 180 metre long cascade is a major component of the cooling system.   Located in a site of unique natural beauty, the building […]

  Stillness and moving reflections – the sculpture fountain directly by the shore of Lake Constance   Arrival and departure – moving moments in man’s path through life. And they are particularly striking when there is clearly a long distance ahead of or behind the traveller. Here a town on the sea or a large […]

  A silent consequence of urban expansion, particularly since World War II, has been the disappearance of many small streams from European cities. Culverted out of sight and out of mind of city residents, most streams have ended up as sewer canals. This is the case even in Oslo, capital city of Norway, a country […]

Water is by nature formless and passive, and only shows its particular qualities when interacting with its surround­ings. These qualities constitute its significance in the con­text of nature and teach us to handle water correctly. Water has become a museum exhibit recently. This gives me pause for thought, as generally speaking museums con­cern themselves with […]

  near Lausanne to commit themselves to an experiment by using a modern rain­water management idea for an estate with ninety dwellings. Since 1986, all the surface water here has flowed along the streets in gutters to a sealed treat­ment bed. Here the roots of reeds and rushes, in symbiosis with the filter floor, remove […]

  /   Formerly a sewer with sheet-pile walls, the Lanferbach now runs by the Schungelberg estate in a leisurely fashion.   Most of the planners from elsewhere had to get used to two things over the ten years of the International Building Exhibition at Emscher Park: first to the stock of language that had […]

  The flat roof of the historic city hall in downtown Chicago was transformed into a green roof garden.   the 11 storey town hall. The walls below it are over 100 years old, and familiar to European film fans at least as the notorious Blues Brothers paid their debts there at the last minute. […]

  The Volme inside the town of Hagen was constrained within a box profile with embankment walls 3 metres high. As the concrete bed slowly crumbled away, a complete change of direction was envisioned.   There are some towns that have a considerable number of inhabitants and whose names are familiar, but do not trigger […]

  Decentralized purification plants are particularly suitable for remote farms and hamlets in country areas.   ‘O’er seven stones the water flows, ’tis pure again, the farmer knows.’ This piece of agricultural wisdom may well no longer apply to the present day and the highly complex ways in which water is now polluted, but there […]