Frame #85 Mar/Apr 2012

In this issue, we explore blurred boundaries between exterior and interior spaces, including Carve and Concrete’s reworking of a square in Amsterdam and a tunnel-like pedestrian bridge by Tobias Rehberger and Schliach Bergemann & Partner. With Junya Ishigami, we examine the possibilities for architecture and nature to converge. Then we head indoors – but to spaces that access or accent the outside world at every opportunity, like Sou Fujimoto’s breathtakingly transparent house in Tokyo and Ryue Nishizawa’s Hiroshi Senju Museum in Karuizawa with its lyrical links to the landscape.

CONTENTS

Visions 
From floating baths to a flamenco school, future thinking from Enota, Oppenheim and others

Stills 
New interiors by: Snøhetta, Nex, Shingo Masuda, Katsuhisa Otsubo, Yuta Shimada, Tjep., JamesPlumb, Nendo, NCDA, Doshi Levien, Byn Studio, Como Park, Richard Rogers, Alonso Balaguer, Fabio Novembre, Federica Capitani, Aino Kavantera, Preston Scott Cohen, Carmody Groarke, Ector Hoogstad, IDFL, Yi Architects, Audi, Martín Lejarraga, NAF, Suppose, Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance, Spiegel Group, Ippolito Fleitz, Reiulf Ramstad, Workshop of Wonders, March Studio, Foster + Partners, X Architekten

Reports 
Space: A new Asian hub for the Australian design retailer 
Update: Company news from Moroso, Erco, Palau, Vipp, Punkt. and Bolon 
Catalogue: A bevy of bathroom beauties

Features

• Natural Highs: Junya Ishigami blends buildings and landscapes
• The Space Between: Takeshi Hosaka blurs interior boundaries
• Let it Grow: Ryue Nishizawa brings the garden inside
• Genius Loci: Interview with Fred Kent, champion of public space
• The High Life: New York’s High Line 2 creates intimacy outdoors
• Living Large: From public square to neighbourhood lounge
• Bridging the Gap: A Slinky-inspired creative crossing
• X-Ray Specs: A see-through space by Sou Fujimoto
• Void With a View: Kimihiko Okada’s house with a hollow
• Green Horizons: Views with a room, by Isay Weinfeld Pho

Goods 

• Review: Three new versions of classic chairs by Konstantin Grcic, Robert Stadler and Dum
• Office Talk: Friso Kramer - last of the Dutch modernists?
• Essay: Fashion meets design, courtesy of Vitra, Delta Light and Foscarini
• Process: Test-tube furniture by Jannis Hülsen
• Introducing: Sophie Mensen’s full of surprises
• One Artist, One Material: Fashioning light from thread: Gabriel Dawe
• Design Art: Toys for boys (racing-car tables by Konstantin Grcic)
• Books: Three very different views from the outside world