... had things not continued apace in June. A month which saw us trawl trough Berlin with Niek Wagemans looking for material with which to build a bar for the Dutch Embassy, rub shoulders with some very glamorous individuals at Design Miami Basel and, most importantly, test the new Vitra Slide Tower in Weil am Rhein.
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As we noted in our original post on Niek Wagemans' nachBAR project for the Dutch Embassy in Berlin, we sadly had to depart Berlin before construction was finished. "What we’ve seen so far however impresses.", we noted, "And we can’t imagine our position will change dramatically." It hasn't. A delightfully compact, well proportioned and very welcoming object, nachBAR proudly presents it origins and with its sheet steel cladding and rounded edges radiates something of the aura, and arguably
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With their high walls, locked gates, uncooperative guards and more video cameras than your average broadcasting company need to cover a simple football tournament in South America, embassies aren't, generally speaking, the most welcoming of places. A small piece of another culture they may be, but never a piece of another culture that appears particularly interested in interacting with the neighbours. To demonstrate that alternatives are possible, that embassies can be a focal point in a
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