SLAB Magazine

Editor currently travelling. Articles pending.

Waking up this morning, it occured to me that my bed looks like nearly all contemporary architecture. Need a wild idea for that upcoming stadium project in Dubai or that contemporary art gallery in Lucerne? Check out my duvet first. My commission fee? I’d be willing to settle for just 3% of the construction costs.

25 Mailroom Designers.jpg – [Source: http://hdfiles.com/]
The ease with which Google (an internet search engine) enables us to access photographic material, and the cryptic fuzziness of search results, plunges us into a serendipitous space lacking any kind of context. The search results page, with its bland grid of suggestions, brings us unapologetically close to answers to [...]

Just wanted to freeze-frame the cloud of «20 words we’re overusing» to be found on the right. With a little punctuation, it currently (Sun. 25th November, 19:44) reads like poetry:
Berlin: building city.
Little German architecture back;
might urban work part interesting.
Probably first place street,
around good name year.
Next please!

Due to vast amounts of ‘real’ work, SLAB will be article-thin for the comming weeks. Mid October could see some new posts on old news.

One of my birthday presents this year was the book Architektur wie sie im Buche Steht, which means something along the lines of “Architecture as it is in Books”. This 568-page volume accompanied an exhibition of the same name held in Munich’s Pinakothek between December of last year and March this year.
The book explores the [...]

I was probably about 12 years old when I first discovered the work of Belgian born artist and writer André Franquin whilst on a family holiday in France. One afternoon I stumbled upon an annual of his wonderfully gaga series of Gaston comics in the house of a family friend.
Protagonist Gaston Lagaffe (French for ‘the [...]

SLAB editor currently on holiday. Do peruse our vast achives in the meantime.