WICONA Meets

In the latest episode of WICONA Meets, our team ventured to Gothenburg to meet Anna Graaf. A civil engineer by training, Anna has spent more than two decades at the head of White Arkitekter’s climate work, first as a consultant and later as the firm’s director of sustainability. In 2022, she was elected as a part of the Delegation for Circular Economy. In this episode, Anna shares with us her vision on sustainable architecture, its possibilities and challenges, as well as how we can better evaluate climate performance.

In the 4th episode of WICONA Meets, our team heads to London to meet the Head of Facades at Mace, Phil Sedge. Phil has worked in the Curtain Walling Industry for over 30 years. He has worked for facade contractors building prestigious projects across London for instance projects like one Hyde Park and the Cheese Grater before joining Mace in 2013. At Mace he has successfully operated a facade department and has a lot of experience in his backpack. Don´t miss this new episode where Phil explains the importance of to build and develop facades Beyond Tomorrow. The episode will be released on December 19th.

In the 3rd Episode of WICONA Meets, our team traveled to Copenhagen to meet one of Europe’s leading facade designers. Steen Elsted Andersen is the Head of Façade Design at Henning Larsen Architects and has, throughout his 20-year career, participated in the design of buildings like The Copenhagen Opera, Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre and Nordea Bank Corporate Center. The episode will be launched on September 30th.

In the second episode of WICONA Meets, our team traveled to Hamburg to find out more about how to make urban spaces more resilient, sustainable and cool. Specializing in building envelope design, Rudi is the “green hand” of Arup, a multinational firm at the forefront of some of the world’s most ambitious and challenging design and engineering projects.

In the first episode, our team heads to Berlin to meet one of the leading players in the avant-garde designer world - Dieter Brell. As well as having the cool factor, Dieter is the brains behind award-winning projects around the world including the Leonardo Glass Cube in Germany, the Butterfly Pavillion in Dubai, Michelin starred chef Mario Lohninger's designer restaurant and the D'fly store in New York. As co-founder of the interdisciplinary design firm 3deluxe, Dieter operates in a universe that embraces architecture and design, art and pop culture and the interface between analogue and digital space.