Stage designers is developing more and more into the most important element of stage productions. It is set designers or ?spatial artists? like Johannes Schütz, Muriel Gerstner, Stéphane Laimé and Olaf Altmann who are ?to blame? ? they are the ones who can turn an evening at the theatre into a total work of stationary art....
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At a time when the world's bad conscience is focussed on yet another Climate Change Conference, ecologically-minded designers, architects and fashion firms are paving the way for a new eco-chic: Green Glamour. Gerhard Matzig looks at the boom of the new eco-nomy.
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There appears to be a building gene for tallness. When the Twin Towers imploded, it was only a question of time before taller ones could be built. Steering clear of the ecological and economic absurdity of the super-skyscrapers, Europe too must see the vertical as a dimension to be inhabited. By Gerhard Matzig
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