That light bulb moment ...

From vision to reality

<a href="/en/magazine/from-the-cradle-to-the-grave-is-competition-the-be-all-and-end-all.html" class="ls-link">&nbsp;</a>

“We are expert partners for architects.”

Based on a new strategic concept, emco Bau is highlighting aspects such as value retention, safety and creative design variety for its target groups. The company is particularly focusing on architects with this strategy. As a result, the product portfolio has been further optimised, and the cleaning effect has been increased.

Read more
[Translate to English:] The Jewel at the Changi Airport

Singapore: Jungle feeling at the airport

Changi Airport in Singapore is one of the largest airports in Asia. Now you can sweeten your stopover time there in a very special way, because the airport has been extended with a mega mall, multi-storey gardens and the largest indoor waterfall in the world.

Read more

Adding comfort to bathrooms

Dietmar Stephan is responsible for product management and marketing communications at emco Bad. We spoke to him about the benefits of the emco light system which allows individual moods to be conjured up in bathrooms with light and how this innovation came about in the first place.

Read more
[Translate to English:] Vision wird Wirklichkeit – Erhellend …

From vision to reality – finding enlightenment ...

Visions are the key to change and ideas are the raw material of innovation. This has been true ever since man discovered fire – and it is still true for every inspiration, and ultimately for innovative LED lighting from emco for baths at wellness oases or sophisticated workplace lighting from Novus.

Read more

Architect Daniel Schneider on destinations, hotel concepts and marketing.

We are meeting Daniel Schneider from the architects Monoplan at the “Trends in hotel design“ technical symposium in Hamburg to discuss architecture, interior design, and branding. With an office in Zurich and a teaching position in Heilbronn as well as international projects, he could be said to be just passing through – next stop: Dubai and Oman. We discussed destinations, hotel concepts and marketing.

Read more

“F&B concepts in the hotel industry” symposium

Another symposium organised by the journal Hotelbau was held on 21 March 2019 at Le Méridien at the main railway station in Munich. As usual, emco was one of the sponsors for this event. This time, the symposium focussed on planning, design and operations in the Food & Beverage sector.

Read more

Trusted design – new level of comfort

Elegant soap dispensers from various emco bath ranges of accessories have been popular for decades thanks to their design and flawless functionality.

Read more

Life is easier with liquid soap

Poor Lady Macbeth! Constantly washing her hands would have been so much easier if liquid soap had already been by invented then. Instead of which, she had to scrub her soft hands with large pieces of curd soap.

Read more

The Robot Science Museum in Seoul

The Turkish architectural practice Melike Altınışık Architects (MAA) has won the international bid for the Robot Science Museum in Seoul (South Korea). The city’s local government called for museum concepts raising public awareness and interest in robotics and robots.

Read more

Architecture as a forum for art

Art has many forms, but it always needs a stage – whether this is in a public space, museum or theatre. One of these locations is the Stage Theater im Hafen on the River Elbe in Hamburg, which was built in 1994 with a tent-like design. At the time it was the venue for the musical Buddy.

Read more

The stuff that arts are made of

Linguistically speaking, the German word for art (“Kunst”) could be said to be made of plastic (“Kunststoff”). So the name suggests something else entirely than disposable cutlery and throw-away shopping bags. The Germans also use the word “Plastik” to refer to a sculpture, which makes it seem only right to create a sculpture out of plastic. Indeed, the 20th century material has had a considerable influence on the art of this era. It has democratised and trivialised art, removed the value from the raw material and transformed the artist from a lonely workshop creative to a designer of mass goods. With 105,000 tonnes of plastic rubbish produced every year in Germany, we are not far away from the concept of throw-away art.

Read more

“I fight for the reputation of plastic.”

400 Fontanes, 500 Beethovens, 600 Nuremberg Madonnas: Ottmar Hörl is famous for his monumental sculptures of plastic figures. A career involving more plastic than practically any other artist’s career. And he has fought more consistently than any other artist against the elitist pricing policy of the art world.

Read more

Lake Verea: Paparazza Moderna

The “Lake Vera: Paparazza Moderna” exhibition will be held at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein from 2 February to 7 July 2019. The exhibition reveals the homes of great masters of modern architecture – in an unusual way.

Read more

Architecture at one with nature

Architecture to emphasise and reflect the natural beauty of the mountains. In the 1960s, a traditional farmhouse stood here, not far from the small Italian town of Bolzano. Today, in the same location in the middle of the Dolomites in the South Tyrol, there is a unique building, which blends in with the beauty of the surrounding natural scenery and mountains thanks to a mirrored façade.

Read more

Colourful plastic for fresh office helpers

Get away from grey office life and into some colour: white walls, grey floors – most offices aren’t colourful, but rather sad and demotivating. …

Read more

Architecture for the Northern Lights

Jávri Lodge is a boutique hotel in Saariselkä, Finland. The building was once used as a ski lodge by former President Urho Kekkonens – and he also welcomed state visitors here. In 2017, the building was extended to include a new main entrance, a dining room and four new hotel rooms – in three additional copper-clad volumes with their very own architecture.

Read more