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Summertime = travel time

Summertime = travel timeThe current summer weather makes us want to travel, and even more so after the two-year "pandemic break"! What about a trip to Kiel? For example, to one of the most beautiful restaurants on the Kiel Canal. In the summer of 2021, the Margaretental restaurant finally reopened in a prime location. And why do we recommend the project, which is also architecturally worth a trip? Because we were allowed to write a reference report on the project by AX Architekten for HEWI - the renowned system supplier for solutions in the areas of building hardware, sanitary accessories as well as barrier-free products! We are already curious about which exciting HEWI project we will be able to report on next. Continue to reference report

LOBA's new website is online!

LOBA's new website is online! Over the last few months, we had the pleasure of supporting LOBA, the premium manufacturer of products for the finishing and caring of surfaces, in the creation of content - most of which was SEO-optimized - for the new digital brand website. The core business of the family-run company based in Ditzingen near Stuttgart is systems for finishing, cleaning and caring for parquet and wooden floors - and this for 100 years already! LOBA celebrated its 100th birthday on April 13, 2022. We congratulate and look forward to continuing to work with LOBA's passionate marketing team. www.loba.de

press agency for architecture and design

press agency for architecture and design

What does bering*kopal . Büro für Kommunikation stands for? Who stands behind the press agency for architecture, building, interior design and sustainable design? And how do we work?

TOTO for "THE TOKYO TOILET"

TOTO for "THE TOKYO TOILET"
Foto: TOTO LTD.

They are often searched for in vain: public toilets are usually in short supply. If they have to be used out of necessity, then for as short a time as possible. No wonder that public sanitary facilities do not invite people to linger. They are usually uncomfortable to use, smelly and the hygiene leaves a lot to be desired. Things seem to be quite different in Tokyo.

Welcome Bauwerk Parquet!

Welcome Bauwerk Parquet!
b*k, Heike Bering

Behind the scenes, we have been active for quite a while for the renowned parquet flooring specialist from Switzerland. And now we have also visited the company headquarters in St. Margrethen. We are pleased to support Bauwerk Parkett in press relations and to initiate video productions. Until the first results are available, we recommend already once the attendance of the beautiful Website, on which the characterful genuine wood parquet can be discovered also in areas, in which parquet is used traditionally rather less. For example, in kitchens or bathrooms... .

TOTO at ISH 2021

TOTO at ISH 2021

Preparing for a digital trade fair is a new experience. With TOTO, we are busy behind the scenes with the upcoming ISH, which runs from 22/03 to 26/03. What makes the Japanese sanitary specialist's products so hygienic? How do the TOTO hygiene technologies interlock and ensure reliable cleanliness at all times? What is so special about toilet culture in Japan? There will be many answers at the ISH - also with webinars in a live and reportage character.

Welcome Rainer!

Welcome Rainer! Since January, Rainer Häupl has been strengthening our team as a cooperation partner in the area of text, strategy and consulting. Rainer is a trained architectural journalist and content marketing expert. For many years we have been connected through a common network and joint projects and share our passion for architecture and design topics. After a kick-off in January, we are looking forward to a continued inspiring collaboration!

Congratulations to Kusch+Co!

Congratulations to Kusch+Co!
Photo: Kusch+Co

Congratulations to Kusch+Co! We are pleased that the two product highlights of this year, Creva soft j and Creva desk, have been awarded twice. And we are pleased that the two product highlights of this year, Creva soft and Creva desk, have received two awards: the German Design Award 2021 and the ICONIC Awards: Innovative Interior 2021. We have just posted our media information on the press lounge.

A new archetype
Photo: DesignRaum

A new archetypeThe new Lighting Pad Lounge from Nimbus is described as a new "archetype" by Nimbus CEO and lead designer Dietrich F. Brennenstuhl. In its appearance of noble moulded wood, it is a lighting furniture that combines both lighting and acoustic effectiveness. Our media information describes this special product in detail and presents it in the most diverse interiors. We also like the new microsite of Nimbus, where you can really immerse yourself and discover a lot.

Hygiene, Baton Change and Design

Hygiene, Baton Change and Design

The press is busy once again before the summer break and our topics are well accepted. In these days, hygiene and infection prevention are the main topics - and this is an issue in which our clients Kusch+Co and TOTO have great expertise. This know-how and the solutions that are currently needed are, of course, of great interest to us. But the "change of baton" at Werner Sobek is also a hot topic, as is the new LED luminaire family from Nimbus, which is again causing a stir with its minimalist design. The magazine "InteriorFashion" has dedicated a whole page to the hygiene-optimised furniture by Kusch+Co and talked to the expert Ingo Bandurski - recently published under the headline "Demand up". Under the headline "The Hygiene Package", the SHK Journal highlighted the advantages of a TOTO shower toilet and the blog architekturmeldungen.de takes a closer look at Werner Sobek's "change of baton". And then we were very excited that the lighting magazine Highlight dealt intensively with the innovations of the Q Four luminaire family and put them online immediately. These were some of the pleasing news of the week. If you are interested in the media information on the respective topics, just contact us: Heike.bering@bering-kopal.de

Kusch+Co

Travelling and seating with distance - Kusch+Co now offers solutions!We are all getting more exercise, Corona will stay. And we have used the past few weeks to work out with our customers exactly those issues that are important in these times and that are actually urgently needed. Kusch+Co has many years of expertise in the hygiene and health sector. Hygiene-optimised seating furniture made by the Hallenberg-based company can be found in healthcare facilities all over the world. In response to recent events, the hygiene experts at Kusch+Co have now taken a closer look at seating in public areas and created solutions that can significantly reduce the risk of infection in waiting areas at airports, in foyers, administrative buildings and lobbies. According to Kusch+Co, the demand is enormous. The first customer for the new seating solution by far is Frankfurt Airport. The media information provides further detailed information. The video provides a short and concise overview.

Nimbus Group

A lighting toolbox for architectsTo develop a "lighting tool box" for planners and architects and to have the right product in the portfolio for every lighting requirement - this has always been the idea of Dietrich F. Brennenstuhl, CEO of the Nimbus Group. With the Q FOUR luminaire family and the three new versions, the tool box has been filled to the brim once again. This time with compact, minimalist spots, recessed and track versions for focused light, which we present in our current media information Brennenstuhl tells the story in a video podcast " Under the luminaire ...".

Appointment of the week
Photo: Alexander Schmitz (Rendering) / Regina Dahmen-Ingenhoven

Appointment of the weekThere´s always something special to discover at the Raumgalerie in Stuttgart. Like this Wednesday at 7 pm with an opening evening for Regina Dahmen-Ingenhoven´s drafts - a surprising mixture of opulence and minimalism that leaves the viewer in amazement. "Paradise for Everyone" is the title of the exhibition. Indusrial warehouses, flats, stands at fairs, terminals, stores and many other architectures: All of them are shaped into magical atmospheres by Regina Dahmen-Ingehoven and her team from DRDI. The multisided artist and architect is there as a guest at the Raumgalerie - you can see her work until the 29th of February 2020.

In transit gloria

In transit gloria
Photo: Kusch+Co

"In transit gloria" ... It´s got to come in mind when it comes to waiting areas - and the suitable furnitures for it. At a "Brand Essential" for Kusch+Co the author from Architonic was putting it in a nutshell what the internationally operating company based in Hallenberg stands for: high-quality seating furnitures in transit areas and lounges that are making the stay comfortable to the passengers. The content incorporated to the "Brand Essential" can also be found in both media information that we were publishing about the recently opended Beijing Daxing International Airport and the Frankfurt Airport. We also came up with something with the headline but it does not reach the Architonic: "Waiting in style in the Tea Garden" is the name of our brand new media information about the Beijing Airport. Kusch+Co has already equipped more than 260 airports and more projects are about to come. We are curious!

A lot going on in Stuttgart and Cologne

A lot going on in Stuttgart and CologneThe following week there are waiting some really exciting events that are related to our partners and clients! Now on Monday, 18th of November an evenin gof discussion and lectures takes place at the Raumgalerie in Stuttgart. "Could laws ensure the construction quality?" And with Kusch+Co as a partner of the KAP Forum in Cologne we follow up the question "What is staying from the Bauhaus year? Insights and outlooks." The young talent competition for designers of all disciplines - aed neuland - is presenting itself from 21st to 24th of November as a part of the Morgenmacher festival at Messepiazza Landesmesse Stuttgart. On Friday, 22nd of November - also in Stuttgart - the new yearbook is presented as a part of the symposium "Engineering Architecture - Design for Construction" and we can be curious about what Werner Sobek is revealing about "concrete innovations".

Success Stories
Photo: bering*kopal, Heike Bering

Success Stories"Success stories" is an editorial format on the Design Center Baden-Württemberg´s homepage: And like so often in the Swabian area these stories do not lie uncovered but you have to dig a little bit. For us, as a mediator it is always nice to see how they come about: A media event at SATTLER in Göppingen - we had been developing a good and entertaining program and Sattlers was giving deep insights into the company. Everybody was surprised that luminaires of international standing are developed in the province. And one of you, closely related to the institution of design, was very inspired. Now one of this Success Stories is dedicated to SATTLER under the title "Light needs design", very worth reading!

The team at the vineyard

The team at the vineyard
Photo: Thomas Rathay

We made use of one of the last wonderful afternoons in autumn, closed the office and set out on our way: after about 40 minutes of driving with the suburban train from Rohr to Obertürkheim to experience what you can probably just experience in Stuttgart: vineyards near by the industrial location. Our team was accompagnied by Ariane Sohn and Thomas Rathay whom we owe the great photos - and Silke Rommel was planning the trip as a newly certified hiking guide - and the one who is the most outdoor-related colleague at our team! - from Ulbach up to the hill Rotenberg and in the end to the world champion of Maultaschen at Untertürkheim. Conclusion: if already Swabian than really Swabian! We should do that more often!

Luigi Colani - and KUSCH+Co!

Luigi Colani - and KUSCH+Co!
Foto: Marburger Tapetenfabrik

The 16th September it was announced that the design´s "enfant terrible" - Luigi Colani - died at the age of 91. The multisided designer will stay present for Kusch+Co with his Colani Edition. He was designing it - and many other drafts which stayed as a prototype forever - in the 1960s for the company from Hallenberg. But the production started in 2005. Colani really was a lot before his time. It´s written more about this incredible collaboration at our new media information.

10 years of PARCS!

10 years of PARCS!
Photo: Bene GmbH

PARCS, Bene´s revolutional furniture collection, is turning ten years old - and seems as fresh and unconventional as at its first day. We have a special relationship to PARCS. Not only because this program is occupying us currently in our media work. In 2012 Heike Bering had been visiting the two designers Luke Pearson and Tom Lloyd in London commissioned by the magazine "md Interior Design Architecture" and wrote an interview: "The choreographers of design". Still an interesting story that is a lot about Bene.

Beautiful places - at metropolis and in province

Beautiful places - at metropolis and in province
Photo: TOTO

Our client´s projects are taking us to beautiful places - to the Swabian province to Waiblingen and to the Austrian metropolis of Vienna. There is also an architectal gem to discover at Kirchheim am Neckar. So we take you with us at our current media information to an expedition to the "Hotel Bachofer" in Waiblingen, what meant fulfilling a long cherished dream to the Michelin chef Bernd Bachofer, and we jump to Vienna into the new "Andaz Vienna am Belvedere". And finally, again in the province, we head for the gingerly sanified "Alte Kelter" in Kirchheim am Neckar.

Pretty quiet!
Photo: Nikolaus Grünwald, Gerlingen

Pretty quiet!To create an acoustically comfortable atmosphere at the interior is a topic that is keeping our clients occupied. The solutions are as individual as the constructor´s requests, the building conditions and the planners´ ideas. Claudia Wald (Mori Space Stuttgart) for example, is convinced that the Rossoacoustic´s acoustically effective products are perfect for inserting them at a not used factory floor. The software corporation k15t is now working at this floor and is thrilled. The AZ Architekturzeitung was picking that topic immediately and putting it online. And here are our new media information about Rossoacoustic.

Hello Kusch+Co!

Hello Kusch+Co!
Foto: Kusch+Co

May we present? Our new customer Kusch+Co. With the latest media information on the modular seating furniture range Creva soft (Design kaschkasch), our cooperation shows the first visible result - and we look forward to providing regular information on Kusch's activities in future. Very exciting: the internationally active company based in Hallenberg is not only strong in design and high-quality contract furnishing, but also market leader with comprehensive expertise in the healthcare and transportation segments. Welcome to Kusch+Co!

Voting for lohrmannarchitekt!

Voting for lohrmannarchitekt!
Photo: Volker Schrank

Voting for lohrmannarchitekt: In any case, lohrmannarchitekt gets our vote! The Stuttgart architectural office, for which we have been working for several months, submitted the BauBuche (beech wood) for the materialPREIS 2019. The chosen material is versatile BauBuche which lohrmannarchitekt used for the corporate architecture of LAB1886, especially for the shuttle's use in its function as the workshop and presentation vehicle of LAB1886. More information and access to the voting until May 15th is available here - we are happy about everyone who participates!

Nimbus presents new luminaire family

Nimbus presents new luminaire family
Photo: Nimbus

Module Q - this is the name of the new ceiling luminaire family from Nimbus. Its design is minimalist, the lighting effect brilliant. Our press release is available for download here.

TOTO at ISH 2019 - with brand ambassador David Marquardt
Foto: TOTO

TOTO at ISH 2019 - with brand ambassador David MarquardtTOTO at ISH 2019 - with brand ambassador David Marquardt, MACH ArchitectsWe are at ISH 2019 with TOTO from 11.03. to 14.03.2019. In Hall 4.1., Stand H 05, TOTO will be presenting Japanese bathroom culture at the highest level - and this time has also appointed a brand ambassador who knows the company very well: David Marquardt from MACH Architects Zurich. David Marquardt will be present at the stand party on the 1st day of the fair from 2 p.m. and also in the evening - we are looking forward to many inspiring discussions and interviews!

The Tower of Superlatives

The Tower of Superlatives
Foto: Detlef Berndt

Record numbers of visitors and a shower of awards: Werner Sobek, who designed the ThyssenKrupp Test Tower together with Helmut Jahn, has impressive results to present after one year of operation.

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What do we stand for?

Our passion is writing. With our articles, we make companies, brands, solutions, services and positions visible and ensure relevance - across all channels. We stand for the strategic planning, editing and placement of content. For a high-quality network in the media and relevant institutions. For unique content and thinking through complex topics in the fields of architecture, interiors, design, technical innovations and sustainability. Last but not least, for a personal style, continuity and quality.

What do we do?

We are a communications and press relations agency specializing in architecture and design topics with particular emphasis on sustainable design and construction. We use our more than 20 years of experience in architecture, design and construction industry topics to get our clients in the spotlight and achieve verifiable coverage - print and online. If needed, we support our media communications with target-group-specific media planning. We use our knowledge to create website copy (SEO-ready) or content for print media for our clients. In addition, we offer content for social media, such as LinkedIn, Instagram or Facebook. If you are still looking for the right communication channels, we are happy to assist you as strategic consultants.

Who are we?

Heike Bering is co-founder and managing director of bering*kopal. She is a qualified romance language expert, art historian and journalist. Her key expertise includes copywriting, the development of social media content, international collaborations and consulting. Her "trademark" is her eye for the essential and her passion for design, architecture and brand topics.

Rainer Häupl studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart and is a trained architectural journalist. As a PR and content marketing expert with over 15 years of experience, he joined bering*kopal as co-managing director in 2022. He focuses on consulting, text and architectural communication.

Thomas Kopal, a qualified psychologist, is the founder of bering*kopal and, together with Heike Bering, has developed the agency into an internationally active office for communication and public relations.

How do we work?

We are flexible, personal, open, curious, consistent and motivated. As a public relations agency based in Stuttgart, we operate regionally, nationally and throughout Europe. For full-service requests ranging from marketing and event management to architecture and scenography, we draw on our long-standing network. Set us a challenge!

Who are our clients?

a+r Architekten / aed Stuttgart e.V. / ARSP Architekten / ANUNDO / Auping / BAID Architekten / BÄRO / Bauwerk Parkett / Bene Büromöbel / Brunner / Burkhardt Leitner / Ceramiche Refin / DorlingKindersley / EttlinLux / Felsch Lighting Design / Galerie Borchardt / Georg Thieme Verlag / Geplan Design / HEWI / Häfele / Jangled Nerves / Konradin Mediengruppe / Kusch + Co / Leicht / LOBA / lohrmannarchitekt / Nimbus / OWA / Phoenix Design / Readers Digest Deutschland / Serralunga / Studio DL / rossoacoustic / TOTO Europe / Wahl / Werner Sobek

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