Rum International

Rum International is a visionary magazine about architecture, interiors and design. Our magazine inspires, reports and criticizes. Well-written features, interviews and interesting photo essays with the best international scene has to offer as well as of the Scandinavian architecture, design and interior design.

Rum International

Contributors

Lovely Lively Livable • Cecilia Öfverholm: What do you want from a city? Lisa Marie Mannfolk: What I want is accessibility.

Mattias Lundblad

Pull up a chair • You know it, we know it – there's an utterly unique relationship between designers and their chairs. Every month a designer tells Rum about their latest passion. This time it's David Ericsson's turn.

Ceci n'est pas a review • Life isn't like a box of chocolate. It is an assembly line and you, my friend, are an orange door stop. At least according to Massproductions.

Casting a wide net • Daniel Enoksson enjoys difficult tasks. And he finds heat sinks ugly. Certainly sounds like a good starting point for a project. But will there be light?

Picking favourites • Stockholm Design Week returned following the pandemic, and despite the dismal global situation of war, economic crisis and spiralling energy prices, a number of initiatives succeeded in lifting the spirits. There may have been a little more space here and there in the exhibition halls (some might say ‘empty’), but the mood was predominantly good. Lisa Marie Mannfolk Eklund picks ten highlights.

Skosljus Crematorium • ELLT

New pathways for wetlands • Biodiversity is an urgent global issue, and when an architectural firm is entrusted with working on any larger site, this must be a priority. That's the opinion of Jens Rex Christensen, lead architect at C.F. Møller for the Storkeengen (Stork Meadow) project.

Review: From Rome to Brescia • In early 20th century Rome they made shop interiors that got a second, third and maybe eternal life. Can contemporary ones compete?

Sense and sensibility • The School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg is continuing its architectural evolution with a new addition. The work of creating a new university building on Vasagatan is in full swing at the time of writing — and will be ongoing for a few years to come. The ambitious new addition by Johannes Norlander Arkitektur looks to be equal parts refined elegance and bombastic grandeur.

Värmland variant • E/S-A Arkitekter

The city by the sea • Link Arkitektur

Belgian bridge • Architectural studio ZJA

A world of science • Zaha Hadid Architects + Architects 61

Diversity and wellbeing • Fojab

Alexander Lervik • The world in a table. And why you should challenge yourself. We visit new design gallery Unikat Gallery in central Stockholm.

Facade Sherpas • Need for speed? Hardly. Now that we have the chance to be tourists again we savour every minute. And we are forever drawn to places sporting interesting architeure and design.

CARVED FOR CULTURE

ON LITTLE ROCK • Notes on the once Swedish Caribbean island of Saint Barthelemy, its architectural types, some of its houses and its libertarian spirit.

WINES, VINES AND COMPLEX DESIGNS • More and more wineries are turning to architects to create more impressive experiences for their noble wines.

I'LL BE BACK • The craze for Modernist Californian architecture has been going on for decades but interest has stepped up in the past year.

A Super-Functional Welcome to the Tamburin Family • With the Tamburin range, Andreas Klippinge's ambition was to design something super-functional. Just like the other members of the Tamburin family, the hook strip is durable and robust. The hook strip has foldable hooks making it...