Modus at "Blavatnik School of Government" (Oxford)

The new build is called BLOX and was created by the Dutch Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and gives Copenhagen a new harbour-front landmark. The striking building was opened in the city’s erstwhile industrial harbour in early May. It consists of green shiny glass cubes, which stacked on top of and interlocked with each other, resemble huge building bricks. Thi...

Wilkhahn is one of those SMEs that evolves with each new generation. The company was founded as a business that crafted chairs made of beech by Christian Wilkening and Friedrich Hahne in 1907. When Fritz Hahne, the founder’s son, joined the company in 1947, the company quickly became very design focused. Design is a concept that didn’t take on its present-day meaning unt...

Wilkhahn started collaborating with Friso Kramer back in the early 1960s. Fritz Hahne, Wilkhahn’s CEO at the time, had seen the Revolt Chair, a simple but nevertheless sophisticated multipurpose chair designed for the Ahrend Group, in an architecture magazine. The meeting with the designer at a Dutch Wilkhahn dealer’s gave rise to successful joint projects and a lifelong...