Digitalization affects all industries. Therefore, architecture is going through fundamental change. Within the series Grohe Dialogs „trends, theses, typologies“, three experts discuss digitalization and architecture: Herwig Spiegl of AllesWirdGut Architecture in Vienna, Julian Nida-Rümelin, professor of philosophy in Munich, and our founder and director Tristan Kobler. In German.

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Again, Holzer Kobler Architekturen is responsible for the presentation of the nominees’ products and projects.

As part of the festival "Theater der Welt (Theater of the World)", a globe installation has been designed and set up on the plaza of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg in cooperation with the Hafenmuseum (port museum). According to the motto "The World Plays Port", the installation presents a selection of miniature maritime objects such as toy ships, small cranes, and a little lighthouses. They are all set on a globe that diffusely reflects its surroundings.

For the 10th time, the annual international design competition recognizes, honors and promotes legendary design visionaries and uncovers emerging talents in Architecture, Interior, Product, Graphic and Fashion Design on global level. The project Swisscom Business Campus in Zurich won the second prize in the Interior Design Competition and was honorably mentioned in the Office Competition.

The Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte (Museum for Hamburg History) presents a special exhibition that shows views of the city around the turn of the 19th century. As if going for a visual walk, the visitor strolls through the city center and discover rarely shown artistic representations of the Hanseatic city dating from 1850 to 1913.

Until the permanent exhibition NAWAREUM opens at the Technology and Support Center (TFZ), a showcase will display a small-scale preview of the planned sustainability visitor center. The showcase will open on May 27th, 2017 with festivities during the weekend.

At the conference and PhD colloquium at the Institute of Urban Design and Planning of Leibniz University, Philip Norman Peterson will give a speech about projects such as Wadden Sea Visitor Center at Cuxhaven under the headline "Building Beyond the Periphery".