Wool carpets offer numerous advantages: they are made from a renewable resource, have a positive effect on the indoor environment, are easy to care for and have a long service life. The architectural firm KLP in Zurich uses the Rollerwool 700 new wool carpet in its own offices. In the following, Andreas Bühler, a partner at KLP Architekten SIA in Zurich, discusses various aspects of these quality carpets.

In Renens, an industrial suburb of the Swiss city of Lausanne, architect Bernard Tschumi has transformed a former stocking factory into a design academy. The new Ecole contonal d’art de Lausanne (ECAL), under the direction of Pierre Keller, is now a 14,000-square-meter (151,000-square-foot) high-tech learning workshop.

“Net ‘n’ Nest” is the name of Vitra’s office concept, presented at this years Orgatec 2008 in Cologne, Germany.