Frame #84 Jan/Feb 2012

Clive Wilkinson's dazzling European headquarters for Macquarie Bank, Jean Nouvel's media-saturated Milan department store and Zaha Hadid's spectacular Wangjing Soho showroom offer vibrant variants on the city-within-a-city concept. We also catch up with veteran designer and Pentagram-founder Kenneth Grange, whose designs have helped shape the urban landscape of London. Finally, we get away from it all with the otherworldly art of Junya Ishigami.

CONTENTS 

Visions 
From airports to apartments, the shape of things to come from Foster + Partners, Autobahn, MVRDV and more

Stills 
New interiors by: Tang Jiansong, i29, Olafur Eliasson, Ryuji Nakamura, ID:SR, Creneau International, Eriksen Skajaa Architects, Doepel Strijkers, Marc Fornes, De-Spec, Atelier H-2-A, Wearecreative, Boris Banozic, Joseph Dirand, Leandro Erlich, Matali Crasset, PingPong Design, Peter Kostelov, Goli & Bosi, Tao Lei, Freaks Freearchitects, Arnold Goron, Lecarolimited, Takeshi Hosaka, Studio UP, Rojkind Arquitectos, Esrawe Studio, Standard Architecture

Reports
InterfaceFLOR: The carpet-tile leader on sustainability and branding
Interstuhl: The German office-seating company unveils a new chair
Catalogue: Outdoor furniture you’ll want to bring indoors

Features

• The Illusionist: Serge Salat discovers the fourth dimension
• Making Her Mark: Two new projects from Zaha Hadid
• All Laced Up: Adidas opts for an urban organization
• Vertical Village: Clive Wilkinson rolls out the red staircase
• In the Loop: It’s all about screens for Jean Nouvel in Milan
• Through the Wormhole: 2012 Architecten and Joep van Lieshout recycle in Rotterdam
• The Great Indoors Award 2011: Winning ideas from Tatzu Nishi, March Studio and others

Goods

• Portrait: Getting to grips with Industrial Facility
• Market: The UK’s new mini-brands come out to play at the London Design Festival
• Talk: Kenneth Grange on modesty, minimalism, and being an unfashionable fan of Ikea
• Process: Jake Dyson’s CSYS lamp is a high-tech hit
• Introducing: The creative chemistry of Lex Pott
• Market: It’s all about the wood look at Cersaie
• One Artist, One Material: Heads of veg from a modern Arcimboldo
• Books: We’re still cave-dwellers at heart, says Rethinking Design and Interiors
• Design Art: Wired: Faye Toogood’s steel-mesh dressing table