Magazine — shell 06

Cities

The last tram depot in Leipzig is becoming a library, and nobody asked the drivers

The building is beautiful and the plan is popular. It is also the third depot in ten years to close, and the people who know the building best found out from the newspaper.

By Hanna Reuter · 14 min · Photographs by Ole Brandt

Work

Four-day weeks, one year on: what the pilot companies quietly changed back

Not the hours. The meetings.

Tomas Eder · 9 min

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Objects

A chair that has been in production since 1859 gets its first redesign

The change is four millimetres and took six years.

Mira Sato · 7 min

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Interview

“I make maps for people who will never visit”

The cartographer behind the transit diagrams of eleven cities on drawing places you cannot go.

Hanna Reuter · 12 min

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The Bundesbahn timetable font is free now
Objects · 2 min
Rotterdam bans right turns on red in the centre
Cities · 3 min
What a 1970s office manual says about hybrid work
Work · 4 min
A reader's letter about the wrong kind of quiet
Letters · 2 min
Issue 117 corrections
Editorial · 1 min

The last tram depot in Leipzig is becoming a library, and nobody asked the drivers

Four-day weeks, one year on: what the pilot companies quietly changed back

A chair that has been in production since 1859 gets its first redesign

“I make maps for people who will never visit”

Shorts All

The Bundesbahn timetable font is free now

Rotterdam bans right turns on red in the centre

What a 1970s office manual says about hybrid work

A reader's letter about the wrong kind of quiet

Issue 117 corrections

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