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smow song contest 2020 .... waiting for the livestream to begin.....
smow | 15.05.2020

smow Song Contest 2020

In a year in which the familiar glow of many a beloved cultural event is missing, one beacon continues to shine. As a virtual, and in many regards virtual, event the smow Song Contest is one that can be staged regardless of prevailing physical social distancing regulations and physical travel restrictions. And while virtual closeness and virtual travel can never, and must never be allowed to, replace the physical, the 2020 smow Song Contest does allow us all an opportunity to cross great

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smow song contest 2019
smow | 17.05.2019

smow Song Contest 2019

For all the controversy surrounding smow Tel Aviv's victory in the 2018 smow Song Contest, not least the question if there even is a smow Tel Aviv, the staging of the 2019 Contest in Israel does allow for a very nice reinforcing of the central theme of the 2019 smow Song Contest.... Inarguably the biggest architecture and design story in 2019 is the centenary of the founding of Bauhaus Weimar. And whereas one can, should, argue if the school deserves its singular billing, it gets it. What

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HeuHütten.BergBauern.LandSchafft at the Schwäbisches Bauernhofmuseum Illerbeuren
Architecture | 06.11.2014

(smow) blog compact: HeuHütten.BergBauern.LandSchafft at the Schwäbisches Bauernhofmuseum Illerbeuren

Given the urban-centric view of the world most of us posses it's all to easy to forget that social and cultural change, and the associated problems, challenges and opportunities they bring, aren't limited to our cities. An exhibition of photographs of the Ostrach valley in Bavaria by local photographer Christian Heumader attempts to reinforce this point. Presented at the Schwäbisches Bauernhofmuseum Illerbeuren near Kempten im Allgäu as part of the Architekturforum Allgäu's LandLuft programme,

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Frei Otto, Olympiastadion München 1972 Teilansicht IL Uni Stuttgart
Architecture | 30.08.2014

Form follows nature at the Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Allgäu, Germany

Just as the devil has the best tunes so does nature posses all the best structural forms. Consequently engineers and designers have long looked to nature for inspiration, the results being as varied, mundane and ultimately important as Velcro, turbines and even train noses. The secret of course is knowing where to look. The early "bird men", for example, thought flight was all about flapping. It isn't. It's about air flows, keel-shaped sternums and hollow bones. Once that had been understood

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