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installation video, hommage à sol Lewitt merci à j3fm pour l´invitation Jean-Robert Valentin (Light Graffiti building projection mapping)

Klaus Nienkämper (Entrepreneurship) Born in Duisburg, Germany, Klaus Nienkämper arrived in Canada in 1960 with in his pocket and a language barrier to overcome. His first job was at a car wash on Torontos King Street. However, intent on making modern furniture, Klaus began working with respected designers and in 1968, with minimal capital, established a company that introduced classic European imports to the Canadian market. In the seventies and eighties Nienkämper became a licensed manufacturer for Swiss Design, DeSede and Knoll products. Today, The The Nienkamper Store occupies a restored historical building on King Street. Owned by Klaus since 1968, this furniture showroom initiated the transformation of a decaying neighbourhood into a design district. Since the nineties, Nienkämper has manufactured Canadian-designed furniture at a 120000-sq.-ft. facility employing upwards of 220 individuals. Many are immigrants 40 nationalities are represented on the payroll. Toronto Star News ArticleNienkämper sells throughout Canada and has showrooms in New York, Boston, Chicago, Washington DC, Dallas, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Also represented in Mexico, England and Hong Kong, the company has completed Middle East, Far East and European projects. Nienkämper furniture is coveted in boardrooms and offices of major corporations, and in homes. Special projects have included Prime Minister Pierre Trudeaus offices and the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC. The company has also ...

Learn design with Doug Patt at his live virtual webcam studio. howtoarchitect.com A video response for some students in Puerto Rico answering some questions about Doug Patt, his past, his background, his work experience, thoughts on architecture and his greatest achievement.

Since the mid nineties the architects of MVRDV gained much admiration for their extraordinary architectural designs. Initially in The Netherlands, for instance with an unorthodox office building for a broadcasting company and with the Silodam, a building that stretches out in the waters of the Amsterdam harbour, looking like a giant container ship. The colourful complex showcases MVRDV's approach to density -- a collection of several different neighbourhoods condensed into one single building. International attention came with the Dutch pavilion at the World Exhibition in 2000 in Hannover. MVRDV surprised it's visitors by stacking Dutch landscapes into a square tower formation measuring 40 meters high. At the moment MVRDV is working on numerous projects around the globe. As diverse as these projects may seem, they all share the same challenge for MVRDV: finding original solutions for intensified use of space by combining a variety of functions. The new market hall in Rotterdam is but one of many projects of MVRDV where this idea of producing, instead of consuming space, comes apparent. Since their formation MVRDV has published visionary studies about global ecological issues, like KM3, a bulky book about how to prevent the suburbanisation of the country side. In their study Pig City, MVRDV proposes it's controversial thoughts on accommodating pigs in high-rise farms. www.mvrdv.nl CREDITS Commissioning editor Submarine Geert van de Wetering Producer: Olivia Sophie van ...