Thanks to one of Niemeyer's last designs, Leipzig is set to have a ball.
Workers at a factory in Leipzig, eastern Germany, will, come September, be able to dine in a striking concrete-and-glass building designed by Oscar Niemeyer. The story of the posthumous and distant arrival of one of the Brazilian architect’s final designs began back in 2011 when Ludwig Koehne, owner of the Kirow-Werke production facility (which serves his two firms, railway-crane specialist Kirow and tram-maker HeiterBlick), asked Niemeyer if he would consider designing an extension for the in-house canteen. For the previous 11 years it had been open to the public for lunch and occasional events. And talented chef Tibor Herzigkeit, who runs the restaurant as an independent business, wanted to expand and open in the evenings. ‘We knew it was a tiny project,’ says Koehne, ‘but the logic was that if the chef left, my workers wouldn’t have nice food and that would be terrible.’
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Guiding Light - Designer Joe Armitage follows his grandfather's footsteps in India, reissuing his elegant midcentury lamp and creating a new chandelier for Nilufar Gallery
For some of us, family inheritances I tend to be burdensome, taking up space, emotionally and physically, in both our minds and attics. For the London-based designer and architect Joe Armitage, however, a family heirloom has taken him somewhere lighter and brighter, across generations and continents, and into the path of Le Corbusier. This is the story of a lamp designed by Edward Armitage in India 72 years ago, which has today been expanded into a collection of lights by his grandson Joe.
POLE POSITION
A compact Melbourne house with a small footprint is big on efficiency and experimentation
URBAN OASIS
At an art-filled Mexico City residence, New York designer Giancarlo Valle has put his own spin on the country's traditional craft heritage
WARM FRONT
Designer Clive Lonstein elevates his carefully curated Manhattan home with rich textures and fabrics
BALCONY SCENE
A Brazilian island hotel offers a unique approach to the alfresco experience
ENSEMBLE CAST
How architect Anne Holtrop is leaving his mark on the Middle East
Survival mode
A new show looks at preparing for a post-apocalyptic landscape (and other catastrophes)
FLASK FORCE
A limited-edition perfume collaboration between two Spanish craft masters says it with flowers
BLOOM SERVICE
A flower-shaped brutalist beauty in Geneva gets a refresh
SECOND NATURE
A remodelled museum in Lisbon, by Kengo Kuma & Associates, meshes Japanese and Portuguese influences to create a space that sits in harmony with its surroundings