Wonderwall
Masamichi Katayama Projects N˚2

The internationally renowned interior and retail designer Masamichi Katayama is synonymous with exquisite quality and applies his distinctive trademark showmanship to create visionary retail environments. This publication introduces over forty recent projects with an extraordinary selection of interior designs for boutiques and retail outlets from high-end luxury spaces to mega stores in the world’s most trendsetting cities. Insightful text by John C. Jay, Wieden+Kennedy’s Creative Director and quotes by Tyler Brulé, the Editor in Chief of Monocle and many more affirm this appraisal.

Wonderwall is Masamichi Katayama. The internationally renowned interior and retail designer is synonymous with exquisite quality and applies his distinctive trademark showmanship to create visionary retail environments.

This publication introduces over forty recent projects by Japan’s hottest retail designer with an extraordinary selection of interior designs for boutiques and retail outlets from high-end luxury spaces to mega stores in Japan, Great Britain, France, the United States and Hong Kong. Masamichi Katayama skillfully integrates diverse interior design elements including light, furniture, material and proportion in a unique and unrivalled fashion that translates into flawless design, comfort and functionality.

Designed by Groovisions, this book vividly demonstrates why Katayama’s work has been considered groundbreaking for interior design since the founding of Wonderwall in 2000. Insightful texts by John C. Jay, Wieden+Kennedy’s Creative Director, Tyler Brulé, the Editor in Chief of Monocle, Rei Kawakubo and many more affirm this appraisal.

Wonderwall: Masamichi Katayama Projects N˚2 presents a brilliant collection of work by an outstanding designer of our time.

Quotes and testimonials by Thom Browne, Tyler Brûlé, Pierre Hermé, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, John C. Jay, Rei Kawakubo, KAWS, Nobuhiko Kitamura, Andrej Kupetz, Takashi Murakami, NIGO®, Keigo Oyamada, Sarah (Colette), Kashiwa Sato, Claus Sendlinger, François Simon, Takashi Sugimoto, Simon Taylor, Jean Touitou (A.P.C.), Pharrell Williams and Tadashi Yanai.

Release: October 2008
Price: € 49,90 / $ 79,00 / £ 40,00
Format: 24 x 32 cm
Features: 256 pages, full colour, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-89955-304-8

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icon #64 | October 2008

You can’t afford to miss icon 064: it’s the redesign issue. Icon has changed from top to bottom, with a new look, a new easy-to-carry size, and tonnes of new content. In the cover feature, we take a close look at the oil crisis and find that plastic might not be the environmental criminal it’s made out to be. As part of our new series of conversations, artist Olafur Eliasson discusses Berlin, the Middle East and the Pantheon with architect Markus Miessen.

Also, we interview Sou Fujimoto, the nonconformist of Japanese architecture, camera-shy fashion designers Bless, and the incredibly busy Max Lamb. For buildings, we visit Bjarke Ingels’ mountainous one-liner outside Copenhagen, and Barkow Leibinger’s gem of a staff canteen.

New work from OMA, Martino Gamper, Jean Nouvel, Feld 72, DSDHA, Muuto and the students at ECAL is up front, and in the back Review takes in two of the summer’s biggest films, MOMA’s summer blockbuster, and books on China and Aldo van Eyck. Plus, there’s new opinion, new illustrated features and even more interviews – as well as the icon design trail, included free. It’s the essential design magazine.

You can buy the redesigned icon at Habitat’s London stores, and Habitat is also hosting the icon design trail hubs during the London Design Festival.

“If you’re a subscriber, then you’re in for a special treat ­ from this issue, you’ll be getting your own limited-edition icon front cover every month. To subscribe, click here.”

A10 #23

On the spot

News and observations

Luckenwalde’s EU-funded station library (DE)
Public opinion clashes with professional architectural judgement in Ireland
Zagreb’s unfinished Museum of Contemporary Art (HR)
Rome-based Stalker Group designs a house for Roma community (IT)
Update: Young Basques (ES)
Reality check: Omnizorg multi-focus reception centre, Apeldoorn (NL)
and more…

Start

New projects

Academy of Arts, Tallinn (EE) by EFFEKT and SEA
Hotel, Belgrade (RS) by Mustafa Music
Office campus, Istanbul (TR) by Emre Arolat Architects
Mobile performance venue, Oslo (NO) by Various Architects
Office building, Bacau (RO) by Carmen Tanase and Giuseppe Pietrobon

Interview

Helen & Hard
Siv Helene Stangeland and Reinhard Kropf, founders of Helen & Hard, talk about the oil industry, recycling, collaboration and invention and about what it is like to live and work in Stavanger. Kropf: ‘If you don’t like the cafés, you have to design them yourself and if you don’t like the housing, you make your own.’

Ready

New buildings

Shopping mall, Lausanne (CH) by Ueli Brauen and Doris Wälchli
Football stadium, Maribor (SI) by Ofis and Multiplan
Villa, Cernosice (CZ) by ksa
Kindergarten, Tartu (EE) by Kavakava
Bar pavilion, Porto (PT) by Menos é Mais
Motel, Moscow (RU) by X.Y.Z.architects
Waterfront and maritime museum, Kotka (FI) by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects
Town hall, Sant Cugat (ES) by Xavier Vancells
Treetop walkway, Kew Gardens (UK) by Marks Barfield
Water filtration plant, St. Erasmo Island (IT) by C+S Associati
Church, Jyllinge (DK) by KHR Architects

Section

Designing with light
Architecture and urban design are more than ever connected with artificial light. Nearly every building nowadays is designed with a special lighting plan and every self-respecting city has a light management department dedicated to the lighting of streets, squares and buildings. The reason is not hard to find: light not only makes the built environment visible and visually attractive, it is an essential ingredient for a safe, liveable and commercially successful environment.

Eurovision

Focusing on European countries, cities and regions

The predicted decline of Europe’s population forces architects and planners to reconsider the current building practice
Hanseatic self-confidence: an architectural tour of Hamburg (DE)
Home: Guna Eglite’s Modernist-inspired white villa, Jurmala (EE)

Out of obscurity

Buildings from the margins of modern history
Werner Bossman traces the journey of Vjenceslav Richter’s Yugoslavian pavilion for the Brussels Expo of 1958. The crisp modern building got a second life after the world exhibition closed, when it was dismounted, transported and reassambled to become a school building in the Flemish village of Wevelgem.

Strike a Pose!
Eccentric Architecture and Spectacular Spaces

Arne Quinze is a creative phenomenon. This first monograph extensively introduces the designer’s full creative universe from the past, present and future. Over 40 invigorating design projects crossing over from furniture, interiors and architecture to urban planning, car design and footwear are showcased with lavish photos, personal sketches and incisive text giving insight into Quinze’s cosmos. Celebrated projects such as furniture collections for Quinze & Milan, Moroso and Swarovski, concept cars for Lamborghini, the colossal wooden Uchronia sculpture at the Burning Man Festival and his monumental Cityscape sculpture project in Brussels are featured.

Author: Arne Quinze
Editors: R. Klanten, L. Feireiss
Language: English

Release: September 2008  – Available Soon!
Price: € 69,90 / $ 100,00 / £ 55,00
Format: 25,1 x 31,5 cm
Features: 320 pages, full colour, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-89955-219-5

The trailblazing, self-made Belgian designer and artist, Arne Quinze, is a creative phenomenon. Effortlessly crossing over between the most diverse disciplines from art, design and architecture, he has established a new invigorating design language that has taken the design world by storm and has instantly become
an icon.

Quinze’s genius lies in his ability to fuse polar extremes – passion and chaos with controlled elegance. He masterfully creates immaculate, urbane and polished designs that are balanced with a certain contradicting tension, giving them a refined yet exuberant appearance. He realises his ideas with extraordinary verve and is able to apply them to projects of any scale, whether it be architecture, interior design, urban planning, furniture design, car design or footwear.

This publication is the first monograph to document Arne Quinze’s full creative universe from the past, present and future. The book showcases celebrated projects including furniture collections he has created for Quinze & Milan, where he is the creative director, Moroso and concept cars for Lamborghini, colossal wooden Uchronia sculpture at the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada desert, his recent monumental Cityscape sculpture project in Brussels’ Quartier Louise and more.

Over 40 projects are presented with lavish photographs, personal sketches and accompanied by incisive texts giving insight into Quinze’s cosmos. Dazzling but never flamboyant, Quinze is undeniably one of the most ambitious and influential individuals in the creative scene today.

icon 063 | September 2008

This month, icon hits the road, touring the wildest and remotest parts of Norway to see architects squaring up to a formidable challenge: outstanding natural beauty. We visit the remarkable architectural interventions scattered in a sublime landscape of glaciers, mountains, forests and fjords.

The rest of the features also boldly go to extreme destinations. We visit the future, where Doshi Levien and Dunne & Raby are steering research for microchip giant Intel. We hack through the graduate show jungle to pick out the gems from this year’s student work. And we brave the inhospitable environment of a restaurant in Paris to meet design impresario Didier Krzentowski, owner of Galerie Kreo.

In news, there’s new work from Greg Lynn, Daniel Libeskind, Marije Vogelzang, Work AC and Olafur Eliasson, plus the best of the London Festival of Architecture. In review there’s Buckminster Fuller, My Bloody Valentine and Adolf Hitler.

Editorial

The main character in a novel by W.G. Sebald, architecture professor Jacques Austerlitz, wonders why the history of architecture has left such an extraordinary inventory of buildings and constructions, but completely ignores the sentiments and sensations associated with these built spaces and their “lived” aspects.

Where does this historical dismissal of the idea of architecture, wholly identified with the production of object-buildings, originate?

Can we still trust and rely on a history of architecture that urges us to accumulate objects in museums.

To regain a truly contemporary concept of architecture, we might instead opt for a different choice: to reject untidily the voluntas aedificandi and gain a lateral, more immaterial, mobile perspective of the horizon’s extent. Architecture would be regarded, therefore, as a crossover, an unstable and impermanent discipline, a saprophytic machine capable of incorporating and metabolising at different levels the physical and cultural materials of today’s space, in order then to put them back into the cycle of life reassembled in different sequences.

A saprophyte is an organism that lives on the deconstructive manipulation of existing materials. By retrieving and organically processing decayed matter, saprophytic organisms produce living eco-environmental contexts where none previously existed. By adopting this approach, the Cartesian place of architecture shifts from production and accumulation to the interception and transformation of objects and concepts already present in our environment. And its aim is to find solutions and contexts not yet thought of or tested.

The saprophytic attitude relentlessly dismantles and puts together systems of economic, human and symbolic relations rooted in space. The purpose of this ever-changing task is not to produce finished objects but an uninterrupted flow of materials, suggestions and concretions. These, in turn, are ready to be reused and rescheduled, in an infinite process of appropriation and release.

Flavio Albanese

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