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HIER SCHÖN, ÜBERALL SCHÖN? AED VERANSTALTUNG IM MOCK-UP STUTTGART

Am Mittwoch, den 13. Juni 2012 freuen wir uns, wieder den aed – Verein zur Förderung von Architektur, Engineering und Design in Stuttgart e.V. zu Gast zu haben.

"Global Design - Hier schön, überall schön?" lautet das Thema der kurzweiligen Vortrags- und Diskussionsveranstaltung. Im Anschluss laden wir Sie zu einem kleinen Snack und zu einem "Private Viewing" des EM-Vorrundenspiels Deutschland-Niederlande ein!

Moderation: Dr. Jons Messedat (corporate design & architecture, Stuttgart)
Referenten: Thomas Auer (Transsolar, Stuttgart), Tobias Wallisser (LAVA, Stuttgart), N.N. (Gira, Radevormwald)
Veranstaltungsort: Nimbus Mock-Up, Leitzstraße 4, 70469 Stuttgart
Beginn: 19:00 Uhr
Eintritt: kostenlos
Eine Anmeldung über die Webseite des aed ist erforderlich.

Der aed ist eine von Stuttgarter Ingenieuren, Architekten und Designern gegründete Initiative, deren Ziel es ist, die große Gestaltungskompetenz in der Region Stuttgart – vom Produkt- und Grafikdesign über Multimedia und Engineering bis hin zur Architektur – zu fördern und der Öffentlichkeit nahezubringen.
www.aed-stuttgart.de

Nimbus Group at the Consense in Stuttgart, 19/20.06.2012

The Consense, an international trade fair and congress for sustainable building, investment and operation, will be held for the fifth time this year. With a forward-looking programme, the Stuttgart Trade Fair Centre and the German Sustainable Building Council will provide their international exhibitors and visitors from the whole of the construction and real estate sector an ideal platform for exchanging knowledge at the trade fair centre on 19th and 20th June.

The Nimbus Group will again be among those tackling the subject of sustainability in the construction and real estate business and will be presenting innovative concepts and products.

Venue:
ICS, Stuttgart Trade Fair Centre (Airport)

Opening times:
Tuesday, 19.06.2012 9.00 – 18.00
Wednesday, 20.06.2012 9.00 – 17.00

We look forward to your visit!

More info: www.messe-stuttgart.de/consense/

VOICES_21zwo: Nimbus Group beim Hamburger Architektur Sommer 2012

VOICES_21zwo ist eine Architekturausstellung im Brandshof, die vom 16. Mai 2012 bis zum 1. Juli 2012 im Rahmen des Hamburger Architektur Sommer stattfindet. Architekten, Fotografen und Künstler präsentieren ihre persönlichen und provokanten, humorvollen oder mutigen Notationen zur Lage der Architektur und der Stadt. Der Brandshof ist eines der letzten, komplett erhaltenen Hamburger Backstein-Reedereiensembles aus den 1920er Jahren. In den spannungsvollen Räumen präsentieren und inszenieren sich u.a. Studio BÄNG, Markus Dorfmüller, Nicholas Grospierre, h&n architektur, Martin Kohler, Kawahara Krause Architects, Markus Kröger, Justus Pysall, Lydia Rintz, Hannes Stimmann, Schaltraum Architektur, Julia Ackermann, Klaus Frahm, üNN.
Und mitten drin: die Nimbus Group als Partner der Ausstellung.

Vernissage mit einem Statement über den Raum, die Kunst und junge Architektur von Hubertus Adam (SAM Basel und Architekturkritiker) ist am Dienstag, 15. Mai 2012 um 19 Uhr

Adresse:
Brandshof Brandshofer Deich 114-118, Halle A
20539 Hamburg

Mehr Infos:
www.voices21zwo.com
architektursommer.de

Living-standard redefined: Nimbus involvement in the "e-living of the future"

The Nimbus Group is a project partner in one of Berlin's most innovative construction projects. Under the motto "Living-standard redefined", a unique property is under construction in the Prenzlauer Berg district, the "e-living of the future" Project 4.

The project encompasses the entire spectrum of living and working in the future: from "e-apartments" through to the "e-office of the future". Original architecture and technology solutions have been realised on 2500 m² of space and are now being tested under "live" conditions. e-living combines energy efficiency and progressive technology for the home; it represents a unique retreat for the occupant and impresses with its new design and networked lifestyle.

Situated in the middle of Berlin, the nation's first e-house reflects the entire spectrum of a new joie de vivre. This apartment building can be seen as an example of sustainable, flexible and interactive urban living. From the first to the fifth floor, there are 32 virtually barrier-free apartments with rooms that seem to flow into one another. The interior design features integrated sculpture-like fittings where people can sit or lie down and is connected up to electronic home technology. The penthouse floor, on the other hand, is a wooden, convex roof structure which has been placed on top of the building and, as an e-office of the future, shows how a flexible working environment takes shape.

As a leading innovator in the field of LED interior lighting and a founding member of the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB), Nimbus is playing an active part in this modern construction project. The former factory building from the year 1910 was renovated from top to bottom using ecological materials and fitted with the latest generation of energy-efficient Nimbus LED.next luminaires.

The ground floor houses a showroom designed by the architect Alexis Dornier together with the founder of "e-living of the future", Dirk Fabarius. Here visitors can experience and test the vision of e-living 2022.

You would like to meet in Berlin for advice on our innovative Nimbus LED.next luminaires or Rossoacoustic systems? Simply arrange an appointment: ewohnen@nimbus-group.com

You will find further information on the project and reports on the individual construction phases at: www.e-wohnen-der-zukunft.de

Unheard rooms: Rosso at the AIT acoustics symposium in Frankfurt and Cologne

Unheard rooms – room acoustics between sound design & masking

The architectural journal AIT hold 2012 again its acoustics symposium together with the Fraunhofer Institute in Frankfurt and Cologne. Rosso will be involved in this events at 10th of May (Frankfurt) and 14th of May (Cologne)

Hard surfaces, reduced forms, clear-cut interiors – these have been the tendencies in development in global contemporary architecture for a number of years now. Architects and interior designers are urgently seeking new and innovative products also with the aim of ensuring effective room acoustics. The demand for acoustically effective architecture products will be identified and discussed during this one-day events.

Among other things, the Nimbus Group presents the sound-absorbing effect of Rossoacoustic materials, in particular that of Rossoacoustic CP30 and the Rossoacoustic TP 30, the new textile system. This solutions allows flexible shielding of work groups or departments in acoustically critical room situations. The absorbing-systems will be presented again in an creative house-in-house concept made of Rossoacoustic CP30.

You will find the detailed information at www.ait-akustiksymposion.com

We would like to welcome you in Frankfurt an Cologne!

Architects Partner Award 2011 in Silver for the Nimbus Group

In March, deputy sales manager Oliver Waidmann accepted the APA - Architects Partner Award 2011 in Silver on behalf of the entire Nimbus Group sales team.

The third Architects Partner Award ceremony took place in Cologne on March 13th, 2012. And the name says it all: every year, prizes are awarded to those companies and consultants who prove themselves to be true partners to Germany's architects and interior designers. In awarding this prize, the sponsors – the journals AIT and xia Intelligente Architektur – help to further improve qualified consulting in the field of architecture. The award-winning sales teams and individual consultants were determined by means of a questionnaire sent to over 1500 architects.
Those questioned named 627 architectural consultants with whom they prefer to work as well as 534 brands whose sales work was worthy of particular praise. The AIT-ArchitekturSalon in Cologne was once again the host for the APA-Award ceremony.

The Nimbus Group is delighted to have received the award and is particularly pleased with the trust placed in the company by Germany's architects and interior designers!

Nimbus wins the BusinessCup 2012 in Stuttgart

The BusinessCup 2012 took place in Stuttgart last Sunday, 18.03.12. As a company committed to sport, the Nimbus Group was of course also on board.

Our team mastered the group phase in style and was rewarded with a place in the final. The final itself was a thrilling match full of commitment and emotion. After falling behind twice, the team, cheered on by its crowd of supporters, showed its fighting spirit and came up with a solid team performance.

In a furious finish, the team snatched a narrow but deserved 4:3 victory.

On 2nd June, the Nimbus team bus will be heading to Cologne for the German grand final. We wish the lads the best of success!

Here is the video of the thrilling final of the tournament:

Nimbus steps on the gas at the raumPROBE Carrera race!

The slogan of the Carrera race held to mark the launch of the new material database was "We're stepping on the gas!". 10 teams battled it out on the large-scale Carrera racetrack to record the fastest lap time. The trackside bristled with excitement and the races were hard fought. Despite numerous crashes, thankfully nobody was injured...

Nimbus' lean and sleek Line Z LED luminaires served as track lighting for the 12-metre course. Naturally, the Nimbus Racing Team, their breasts swelled with pride, also competed in the race – although victory unfortunately eluded them.

We would like to congratulate the winning team - RIM Boys with Leo and Sven von Bötticher!

Anyone who missed the spectacular race but would like drive a few laps is cordially invited to raumPROBE. The track is still set up and the raumPROBE team looks forward to being challenged!

www.raumPROBE.de

Nimbus and Rosso unfold at Design Post Cologne

A new experience has been unfolding since January at the Design Post Cologne!

The Nimbus Group has not only unfurled new products from the areas of LED lighting and acoustic solutions in the design halls of Cologne's former parcel post depot – the company has also implemented an unusual folded-plate structure which visitors can walk right through and which will remain in place for the next two years.
Absolute reduction together with design which does full justice to the materials used have always played a prominent role in the Nimbus Group. Top quality surfaces and close attention to detail in the finishing process lend our products their unmistakable allure – making each solution a real original.
The new exhibition space in the Design Post is also quite unique: with its geometric diversity, the sculptural architecture forms a wide variety of spatial elements and the folds of the room-like sculpture climb almost playfully up into the void of the historical steel structure. The dissolution of wall and ceiling surfaces gives rise to fascinating areas for the presentation of the Nimbus Group's product world.

The Nimbus Group brought along a number of new and innovative "originals". An overview of the new originals:

The sculptural and extremely flexible RIM R luminaire range with the futuristic touch (recently winner of the "Interior Innovation Award" at imm cologne 2012)
The new Office Air LED family of luminaires with increased efficiency and new applications for office workplaces (recent winner of the Good Design Award 2011)
The new TP 30 Knit acoustic panel whose fabric surface possesses a marked haptic appeal (recent winner of the "Innovation Award Architecture Textile Object" awarded by the Heimtextil (Home Textiles) trade fair together with the architecture journals AIT and xia IntelligenteArchitektur)

Be our guest!

Opening hours:
We./ Th./ Fr. 10.00 - 18.00
Saturdays 10.00 - 16.00

Design Post Köln
Home of Design
Deutz-Mülheimer-Straße 22a
50679 Cologne
www.designpost.de

Nimbus Group supports the exhibition Quartier Quartett Rosenstein

"Quartier Quartett Rosenstein"
A cooperation project.
An exhibition.
An architecture festival.

Four architecture faculties from Baden-Württemberg presented their concepts for shaping Stuttgart's new Rosenstein district in the Wagenhallen in Stuttgart. The works are all by students from the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, the University of Stuttgart, the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Their content ranges from designs for public buildings through to urban installations, and the exhibits take the form of plans, brochures, models and photo documentations.
The Nimbus Group is supporting this innovative cooperation project.

Incidentally, one special, interactive installation in the exhibition is a temporary sauna built to mark the 250th jubilee of the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design. Having fulfilled its purpose as an advertising satellite, the Umschichten firm of architects went about remodelling it. Concealed behind a screen in the interior of the sulphur yellow bulk container, there is the sauna cell, a plunge pool and a changing area: on event days, the ideal way of defying the weather and getting your body back up to the right temperature.

You will find more info at:
www.quartier-quartett.de

Swissbau 2012: Nimbus Group with new products at leading Swiss construction fair

Swissbau is Switzerland's most important meeting place for the construction and real estate businesses as well as being one of Europe's largest specialist trade fairs. The fair took place from 17th to 21st January 2012 in Basel and the Nimbus Group showed its Nimbus and Rosso brands.

In its capacity as a leading innovator in the field of LED interior lighting and manufacturer of highly flexible shading systems, room-dividing systems and acoustics solutions, the Nimbus Group exhibited in the "OfficeSpace" zone of the Basel Exhibition Centre in Hall 2.0. In this special zone firm of architects and realized together with the exhibition centre management, everything revolves around modern working environments. Here architects, office designers, purchasers and facility managers will find innovations from the fields of office and room concepts or light and acoustics solutions which range right through to materials for floors, walls and ceilings.

The Nimbus Group brought along a number of new and innovative "originals". An overview of the new originals:

The sculptural and extremely flexible RIM R luminaire range with the futuristic touch (recently winner of the "Interior Innovation Award" at imm cologne 2012)
The new Office Air LED family of luminaires with increased efficiency and new applications for office workplaces (recent winner of the Good Design Award 2011)
The new TP 30 Knit acoustic panel whose fabric surface possesses a marked haptic appeal (recent winner of the "Innovation Award Architecture Textile Object" awarded by the Heimtextil (Home Textiles) trade fair together with the architecture journals AIT and xia IntelligenteArchitektur)

Soccer tournament: Every team for itself and Nimbus right in the middle

In November, four teams took to the field at the first Combinat 56 soccer tournament at SoccArena in the Olympiapark in Munich. As well as battling for their honour, the teams were also competing for the "Co-Cup", sponsored by the Nimbus Group and the office furniture company Bene Büromöbel.

It is hard to imagine that there was a time when Munich had no Combinat 56 - a flexible co-working and event location. Since opening on 1st May 2010, it has enjoyed increasing popularity as a cradle of creativity in the city's Ackermannbogen district.
And as great importance has been placed on a sense of community in Combinat 56 right from the very beginning, there has always been a place on the agenda for communal sporting activities. The weekly "company sports session", a B2Run and a 100 km trail walk are among the activities arranged so far, and in November the time had come for another gruelling communal activity – the first Combinat soccer tournament.

Lots were drawn to allocate a total of 20 players – recruited from the ranks of the Combinat, Nimbus, Bene and Vitra as well as friends of the Combinat – to their teams. It was pure coincidence that the tournament sponsors all ended up in one team, which went on to narrowly lose the final.... Their breasts swollen with pride, the Nimbus players all wore specially produced Nimbus shirts.
We would like to congratulate the victorious team and are already looking forward to next year's tournament!

You will find more info on the exciting Combinat 56 co-working project in our press releases

Police at Nimbus!

For a few weeks now, there has been an original police Harley from the nineteen forties at the Nimbus Group Mock-Up in Stuttgart.

The machine was in the possession of the Stuttgart motorway police for over six decades and was then presented to the Stuttgart police headquarters in 2007 for its police museum currently under construction at the Pragsattel in Stuttgart. Restoration work went on for three years before the machine could once more be admired in its original condition. We are very pleased to be able to display this rare exhibit on our premises until the police museum opens!

The motorbike was in service for "Motorised Division 20" on the motorways around Stuttgart until the mid-fifties. Following the total collapse of public order at the end of the 2nd World War in 1945, the Allies took charge of all police affairs. Increasing traffic on the motorways required police supervision and so the Stuttgart motorway police was established on 17.10.1946 as a result of a decree by the US military government. The new unit was based at Kelley Barracks in Stuttgart Möhringen.

The Americans presented the state police with the Harley, a Pretzel Beetle and a small truck. On 27th May 1947, the US military government returned sole authority for police affairs in the US zone to the German police. The unit and the Harley moved to a new barrack-like building, where the Sindelfinger Wald motorway service station now stands.

Incidentally, there is a short anecdote concerning the bike: It is said that mid-wives used the Harley to get around Stuttgart before it entered police service. But with a weight of 300 kilograms, the machine was not really very practical for the mid-wives. And the (male) Nimbus team found out for themselves just how heavy 300 kilograms really is when they physically manhandled the Harley into the Mock-Up!

Here is the technical data on the Harley for all motorbike fans:
Type: Harley Davidson WLA
Year constructed: 1941
Motor: V2 45° Flathead, 743 ccm
Performance: 23.5 HP at4600/RPM
Gears: 3 gears
Top speed: 105 km/h
Price (1941): US $ 380

Nimbus supports the Electronics Inventors Club Stuttgart

The official opening of the Electronics Inventors Club (EEC) club room took place at the Nimbus Group's Mock-Up in Stuttgart at the end of October. The EEC is a group of young pupils who get together to research, understand and recreate (among other things) electronic phenomena and interrelationships. These young pioneers have set themselves up in a small, completely equipped electronics laboratory at the Nimbus Group Mock-Up – with soldering irons, converters, phase testers and LED PCBs along with many other items that a creative boffin might need!

The club room will give the inventors free rein to try out their ideas – whereby they will not only rely on trial and error but will also have the opportunity to exchange know-how with the Nimbus development and design team. However, Nimbus will be neither nanny nor the fount of all knowledge, as the most stunning inventions are often born out of the recognition of interrelationships during play.

Dietrich Brennenstuhl, founder and CEO of the Nimbus Group, is impressed by the club's commitment. It was only a few months ago that he heard about the EEC and was handed a copy of the 1st club journal. Reminded of his own youth characterised by experimental fervour and the need to understand interrelationships and make improvements wherever possible, he did not hesitate to give the EEC his support, remembering that he and his young friends could often have benefited from a little outside help. "As a youth, I tried to extend the transmission range of the remote control for my model glider - unfortunately, with limited success. The plane is still missing today," reminisces Dietrich Brennenstuhl, who has been a proud honorary member of the Electronics Inventors Club since the opening of the club room.

More information about the Electronics Inventors Club: elektronikerfinderclub.wordpress.com/

We hope that the Electronics Inventors Club enjoys experimenting and we can't wait to see the inventions they come up with!

Light and sustainability for children: new edition of Nimbus children's book

How can I get the idea across to children that not all light is the same?

This was the question that preoccupied Dietrich Brennenstuhl, founder and CEO of the Nimbus Group and a father of two children. In 2008, "Buch von der Kuh 36" was published based on his ideas and the 2nd edition has just appeared.

This children's book was designed with a great deal of loving care. With this work, Nimbus not only succeeded in explaining complex concepts like sustainability and ecology in simple words, but the creative minds at this Stuttgart enterprise also managed to convey to young readers that light is a wondrous thing.

"Buch von der Kuh 36" can be purchased through the Nimbus Group.

Story and idea: Frank Ockert Illustrations: Rolf Sieber

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