Erik Jørgensen show with Orgatec fair Retrospective 25 years of cooperation between Erik Jørgensen Møbelfabrik A/S with the Danish designteam Foersom & Hiort-Lorenzen read After Bird's Nest HOK has commissioned Squint/Opera to produce a film about the stadium for the London Olympics in 2012. read The Best Kitchens The traditional 'domain of the housewife', in which nowadays more and more men are to be found playing with high-tech equipment, has for some time now been a central place... read Small but Powerful It could easily have been a real flop - a period when Wall Street was in turmoil and in the UK the property market found itself in a state of meltdown was not the ideal time for 100%Design to take place in London. read Holbæk Harbour schmidt hammer lassen architects have just won the architecture competition to design the new sports and leisure complex and overall master plan read Under the Same Roof It's not always easy to finish your design studies and then start to concentrate fully on your own production, transferring the enthusiasm and energy of your college days to the world of work. The London designer collective, however, has shown us how it's done. read Translucent insulated glass The extension to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City is an impressive example of the use of translucent but opaque glass facades... read "Anything but nostalgic" They worked alongside him for many years: We met Marianne Panton and Verner Pantons longtime assistant Rina Troxler in Basle for this fascinating and revealing interview. read CHANEL Mobile Art Imagine a museum, instead of travelling far to see it, will stand temporarly in your home town. read King Bonk The designers Patrik Fredrikson and Ian Stallard are known for their experimental creations. The form of this fibre-glass seating, for example, is created by the hardening of foam material. read Win a Limited Architonic Collector´s Box Architonic will monthly draw ten people to win one of the limited edition Collector´s Boxes, containing the three most recent Architonic Flip Books... read Patchwork Collection As Amy Hunting says herself, she tries to combine her work as an illustrator and her furniture designs in the best possible way. The result is her 'Patchwork Collection'. A successful composition of art and design. read Architectural Competition Zurich The former workers' district of Zurich is undergoing large-scale rehabilitation. After the renovation and conversion of a number of buildings such as the Volkshaus and the Hotel Rothaus, there are now further plans for a new development: an area of unused land is to become home to a cooperative estate with apartments for 250 people together with business premises, cultural facilities and 250 new jobs. read "The style has always been the problem" For 30 years now Michele De Lucchi has vitalised and influenced the international design world with his convention-challenging ideas and working methods. We met him in Milan... read Success by design 'HansandFranz' is a name which couldn't be more German (apart from the 'and' instead of 'und'), and perhaps it's an omen of the fact that they would head in the direction of America – known of course as the land of unlimited possibilities. read New lamps by Jaime Hayón Jaime Hayón’s work has transcended the barriers between two worlds that have always been apart: art and design. read Investigating the nature of things For the past twenty years Hannes Wettstein has had a decisive influence on Swiss design while himself, however, staying very much in the background. In the night from Friday to Saturday the 50-year old designer died of cancer. read SurroundThings We have seldom seen an impressive and comprehensive retrospective which has succeeded with such creative meticulousness in illuminating the apparently unlimited range of an individual designer... read Mix wins the Compasso d'Oro Award The international Jury of the XXI edition of the ADI Compasso d’Oro, has awarded the prize to the Mix lamp designed by Alberto Meda and Paolo Rizzatto... read Between Heaven and Earth The Baumraum team, which is made up of architects, landscape designers, innovative craftsmen and tree experts, plans modern tree house designs which are constructed to the individual specifications of the client. read Design Miami/Basel For the third time international design and art galleries are presenting much sought-after design classics and exclusive products as part of the 'Design Miami' exhibition at the Art Basel fair. read Fantoni sponsors the 11th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia This year, as in 2006, it plunges in the world of architecture cooperating and panelling the exhibition spaces with design and technology thanks to its radiant and sound-deadening systems. read Fashionable Technology Sabine Seymour, who among other things lectures at the Parsons New School for Design, New York, has put together a collection of products and materials which looks at the close interlinking of fashion, design, technology and science... read "Slow Fashion" Furniture The master project by Fredrik Färg initially suggests designs with a strong textile orientation. However, when you take a closer look at the... read Urban Bathing Swimming bath architecture has recently been making a comeback and is now manifesting itself in entirely new contexts. read The Last Diplomas This summer graduates of the university's four-year degree course in art and design will for the last time present their degree project work. read Planilum The electric light bulb has had its day. Ecological and energy-efficient illuminants such as LEDs or OLEDs are becoming more and more attractive to the consume... read Graphic on Architecture The interplay between graphic art and architecture is a discipline in itself. Visitor orientation and guidance systems require a detailed analysis of the architecture of the building, and the operational and movement sequences of the building's users... read Urban design event The exhibitions and events which take place during the fair in the whole of the inner city of Milan attract not only trade visitors but also masses of private design enthusiasts. read The Architecture of Presentation Because our attention is fully focussed on new products and old acquaintances we frequently overlook the architecture of the stands themselves, which is often of high quality and great elaboration. read Nordic Novelties Stockholm is increasingly establishing itself as the design capital of the North. With almost 40,000 visitors this year the Stockholm furniture fair and the Northern Light exhibition were more successful than ever. read light + building This year's light + building successfully defended its position as the top trade fair in the lamps and lighting systems sector. In spite of the many international manufacturers who displayed their products and the large masses of visitors, the organisers succeeded in keeping the exhibition manageable and well structured. In addition to the stands of well-known established manufacturers, it was in particular the work of a number of smaller young suppliers who were presenting their products for the first time which caught the eye. read Master of Transparency Jean Nouvel receives the Pritzker Price 2008 read The Pink Project In the autumn of 2005 the Lower Ninth Ward, a multi-cultural precinct in the east of New Orleans, was flattened by the force of hurricane Katrina. In cooperation with Graft, the Berlin architects, Brad Pitt developed the idea... read The Eco-machine With its Federal Building in San Francisco the California firm of architects Morphosis, took the Zumtobel Gruop Award in the 'Gebaute Umwelt' (constructed environment) category. read Projekt Vitra The title of the book says it all. What we have here isn't a product catalogue but a rich collage of texts, photographs, sketches, types of paper, layouts and dictionary-like lists of the designers and architects who have worked for and with Vitra in the past and will continue to do so in future. read News from Cologne Even if the imm cologne has lost ground in comparison to the Milan fair, which has now become the major international design event, and the Maison & Objet exhibition which has benefited from the design boom in France, the response of the majority of imm exhibitors was entirely positive read More Colour! A few kilometres to the north of Stockholm, in a picturesque house which lies on the former hunting grounds of the kings of Sweden – this is where Fredrik Mattson has his studio. In recent years the 34-year old furniture designer has made a name for himself on the Scandinavian design scene with his playful and colourful creations. read Greenhouse in Stockholm Like on many other furniture fairs also in Stockholm the exhibition of young designers is a relevant part of the programme. In cosy atmosphere – the exhibition was designed by the swedish studio TAF – international talents present their work. read In spite of all the prophecies of doom On Sunday before last this year's imm cologne closed its doors after receiving 107,000 visitors from 103 countries – statistics which speak for themselves. read Young Design at the imm cologne 2008 This year, too, the imm cologne will provide lots of opportunities to discover young design talent and discover fresh ideas. Here a few suggestions. read Village life in the Greenhouse The Stockholm Furniture Fair, which takes place from 6 - 10 February, is enjoying ever greater popularity with both manufacturers and designers. This is primarily because the fair has set itself the target of making Stockholm a major platform for creative new ideas. read A classic returns At that time the Casala furniture company, which was founded in 1917, was one of the leading manufacturers in Germany. For almost two years the sculptor Alexander Begge worked on shaping and processing a series of monoblocks on behalf of Casala. The result was the Casalino read Globus by Artifort In the hustle and bustle of the modern office, everyone tries to divide their time as flexibly as possible. Globus is a mobile work station (flexi-station) in two guises. In its closed form, this work station fascinates and intrigues. It hides its function and excites curiosity. read Bamboo 2.0 Due to new processing methods bamboo materials, such as bamboo veneer or Plyboo (in other words bamboo plywood) have become important materials for the furniture industry. And the good thing is that it is now possible to overcome the musty colonial aesthetic which bamboo has been associated with. read

Parisian Pyramides Parisians really seem to like pyramid shaped buildings. After the Eiffel Tower and the Pyramides du Louvre there will be a third major building with a pointed roof. read KFF Autumn Collection Neben Grün, Petrol und Anthrazit bestimmen Beerentöne auch 2009 die modische Farbpalette. Sessel und Sofa LUIS von KFF zeigen sich daher aktuell zum Herbst in den Trendfarben Lila und Pflaume. read Everland When artists design hotel rooms their focus is very different from that of the architect. Their curiosity, visions, objectives and their implementation are influenced by other factors than architectural ones. read UNStudio for Louis Vuitton UNStudio was commissioned to draw up a concept for the new Louis Vuitton Flagship Store in Japan which would unite the modern and classic qualities of Louis Vuitton and express their essence in architectural form. read Light on Tigris Zumtobel creates new lighting for Archaeological Institute of Zurich University read 21_21 Design Sight The impulse for the creation of 21_21 Design Sight originated during the Isamu Noguchi exhibition in New York. Designer Issey Miyake, architect Tadao Ando and sculptor Noguchi talked about the need for a place where Japanese design could be discovered, promoted and shared. read Gubi in Stage The danish manufacturer presents five one-of-a-kind installations of its furniture and lamps at the Copenhagen Furniture Festival read "You sit more comfortably on colours you like" He made design history with his visionary creations. Verner Panton revolutionised the way the Sixties looked at design, especially with his interiors... read Architonics Top 400 Which designers are accessed most frequently at Architonic.com? To find out we have extracted the statistics for all the direct accessing of designers. read Working in comfort The Swiss furniture manufacturer Girsberger presents the result of prolonged development: REFLEX, an exceptional office chair... read Catwalk Furniture It's astonishing that two major designers implement the same idea in the same season. With both Martin Margiela and Hussein Chalayan, furniture was the dominant theme of the autumn / winter 2006 collection. read Peeled Architecture He gives the impression of wanting to tidy everything up and clear away any unnecessary visual ballast. Meticulously and with surgical precision Richard Galpin breaks down the fine top layer of large-scale architectural photographs... read Poly wins the Red Dot Design Award and the Good Design Award The Poly chair, the newest addition to Bonaldo’s partnership with the eclectic designer Karim Rashid, has not only met with great commercial success since its presentation in 2007, but... read Indestructible Remembrance As if their indestructible presence wanted to make sure that we don't forget the past. As if they wanted to tell us that war is present everywhere – for many years now the bunkers... read Vitra in Brazil Rustic and modern, Micasa Volume B recalls the artisan processes of popular civil construction, and, above all, the modern Brazilian buildings... read Licht und Farbe im Berliner Untergrund (Light and colour in the Berlin subway) Under the management of architects Alfred Grenander and Peter Behrens, who designed the Moritzplatz station, a range of functional buildings was created along the line between 1927 and 1930... read YAMoPo 2008: Yet Another Most Popular Architecture Sites Ranking We are architects, and during the last few years we have been reading and commenting on several architectural websites. As many of you do, we love to watch, learn and discuss about architecture online... read First 'Design Competition' of the Middle East Last Saturday the award ceremony for the 'Traffic Design Competition' took place for the first time. More than 100 participants from 16 cities in the Middle East and northern Africa were judged by a jury of renown experts. read Deutsches Gütesiegel Nachhaltiges Bauen Ab sofort gibt es ein deutsches Zertifizierungssystem, das die Nachhaltigkeit von Gebäuden bewertet... read Detail in Process Christine Killory and Rene Davids examine the influence on architecture of high-tech engineering on the basis of 25 buildings erected in the USA... read Architectural Bridge Building for the Expo 2008 The British star architect Zaha Hadid has chosen glass fibre reinforced concrete from the Austrian company Rieder to envelope the 275 meters long „Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion“, the new symbol of the Expo 2008 in the northern Spanish Zaragoza... read schmidt hammer lassen architects wins masterplan in Norway The Norwegian jury were impressed by the way in which the practice’s design for Straume Sjøfront responds so imaginatively to its location creating a distinctive new community between water and mountainside... read Big Size Villa The time has finally come and the Indian elephants in the Copenhagen zoo have finally taken up residence in their new home. Compared with the old enclosure... read "GECKO: Think Forward" Competition Within the scope of this competition, projects involving the exemplary and innovative use of GECKO are to be submitted to Création Baumann for appraisal... read Panamá The Panamá collection is an outdoor lighting system that consists of two column heights and a wall bracket.... read ICFF The Big Apple – a metropolis for the arts and culture. For a long time one wondered, that New York had nothing more to offer than the, compared to European standards, rather small furniture fair. But... read Crucial Words It's an unusual thing to find a book on architecture with hardly any pictures, almost total reliance on text and taking as its subject a series of crucial questions relating to 31 buzzwords... read Design Collage of the 20th Century Such a stylish and lovingly designed facility as Korea's aA Design Museum can probably only be created if a real enthusiast is involved. read Cool & Fresh 2008 This year the Salone Satellite was once more on show in its own pavilion. Set a little apart from the general hustle of the fair, it welcomed visitors with a very pleasant, airy atmosphere – which of course can't be compared with the grandeur of the hall on the old fair site. read Triennale di Milano It's not just because of its dominant architecture – the Palazzo dell’Arte was designed early in the Thirties by Giovanni Muzio– but also because of its historic past that the Triennale has, for many years, been an especially popular location for exclusive design and architectural exhibitions. read Cities of the Pacific Century The impending Olympic Games in China are dominating the headlines just as much as reports about the current spectacular major projects of the international architectural stars in the country. But what is happening behind, below, next to these individual highlights? read Urban Romanticism “Urban Romanticism” is the motto of the Luminale 08 marathon. Many openings will already take place on April 5th. read Organic Network The Japanese architect Keiichito Sako was one of the first to recognise the potential for his architecture in the growing giant China, and in 2004 he opened his studio in Beijing. read Die Limited Edition des „A’dammer“ aus dem Jahr 1978 Exactly thirty years ago, the Dutch furniture label Pastoe introduced the ‘A’dammer’, an eye-catching freestanding storage cabinet by designer Aldo van den Nieuwelaar (1944)... read Fiction The italian manufacturer Glas Italia presented the impressive mirror serie by the french designer Jean-Marie Massaud at the imm cologne. read Materialica The tenth MATERIALICA in Munich focused specifically on design. For the fifth time the fair presented the Materialica Design + Technology Award to outstanding and innovative performance in the fields of design or engineering. read MaterialVision Innovative materials inspire designers and architects to create ever new products and applications. This was demonstrated at the end of 2007, when the latest developments in the field of new production and surfacing materials were presented at two leading materials exhibitions: Materialica in Munich and Material Vision in Frankfurt/Main. read Golden moon surfaces The designer Alexis Oehler works in the heart of Berlin's Kreuzberg district, but the romantic impression given by his workshop is contradicted by the hardness and roughness of his preferred material, which normally tends to evoke associations of depressing concrete housing blocks. read A swedish bright spot Just one year ago Magnus Wästberg started his lighting company. At the Stockholm Furniture Fair he presents his first collection with names like Irvine und Massaud. read GRP meets porcelain The 'Professorship Project' (Projekt Professur) is the name of the programme at the Karlsruhe College of Design under which well-known designers are invited to become visiting professors at the college and which, after three appointments so far, has proved highly successful. read Architecture in small scale A few separate furniture parts, the half done prototype of a reception chair in the middle of the room – the studio of the furniture designer Eric Degenhardt from Cologne seems like a well sorted working space, a room filled with concentration. read Mingei Design of "Limited edition" obscures the boundary of design and art. Craft elements bring singularity into otherwise mass-produced works and lift them to an art piece in the market. read Design + Research + Industry The cooperation between BASF, the German industrial designer Konstantin Grcic and the Italian furniture manufacturer Plank came into being as a result of the Universal Days workshop, to which BASF invited a number of designers in order to present the new plastic Ultradur© High Speed to them read The Sacco armchair celebrates 40 years! The armchair by Sacco, Paolini and Teodoro is one of the most meaningful example of design product able to embody an "era", while "contaminating" the living conventions that apparently look very formal. read Nosigner The 26-year old, who does not wish to reveal his real name, presented his poetic furniture and object designs at 100%Design under his 'Nosigner' label, and turned out to be one of the highlights of the show. read

DreamHaus DreamHaus is a design game which uses architecture as the basis for the study of mathematics, technical planning and physics. It uses the possibility of displaying buildings as systems and enables players to experience architecture by manipulating the systems. read Torstrasse 166 An entire house over a number of floors in the heart of the city has been turned into a work of art – yes, it's obvious that we're in Berlin. read Net’n'Nest In 2006 Net’n'Nest was presented by Vitra at the Orgatec exhibition in Cologne as a pioneering solution to the open plan office, which had until then had the highly negative image, at least in Europe. Net’n'Nest enables the requirements of collective work in teams (Net) and of individual requirements for concentration, privacy, separation and differentiation (Nest) to be balanced. read Illuminated Circular Outline 'Alone' by Pallucco is a coat hook that casts an eye at the concept of a wall light. Its clear-cut, linear design is enhanced at the rear by an opal finish ring that... read Dupli.Casa Twisted geometry by Jürgen Mayer H.: Villa MRMM near Ludwigsburg, Germany read Designers’ Saturday the 12th Langenthal will be again over two days the meeting point of the international architecture and design scene. On 8 / 9 November 2008 Designers` Saturday will take place for the twelfth time. read Starting with The Universe Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was one of the great American visionaries of the twentieth century. Best-known as the inventor of the geodesic dome, Fuller devoted much of his life to resolving the gap between the sciences and the humanities... read Between Improvisation and Perfection Even if the influence of traditional Scandinavian furniture design on her work is unmistakable, Ditte Hammerstrøm's design is far removed from dry Nordic functionalism. read Silent Design 'Silent Chair' is the name of the reserved chair created by the Swedish designers Linus Berglund and Mats Seitz. And it is in fact above all the inconspicuous but ingenious little details... read Polycarbonate goes Olympic The locations for the competitions in this summer's Olympic Games in China had to meet a range of criteria.... read Spam Architecture Romanian artist Alex Dragulescu creates artwork blending traditional art and new media. read The Church of the Holy Cross / KHR The church of the holy cross was conceived as part of the landscape around Jyllinge. With its glass façade facing the fjord and a “fishing net” dividing... read The World´s Most Beautiful System Crashes When the computer of a colleague of mine crashed a few days ago in the middle of an image processing operation sized several gigabytes, his only response was a big smile. read New Fritz Hansen Showroom The historic Danish brand for contemporary design, opens its first showroom in Milan, designed by the architect Stefano Tagliacarne... read 2008 Pavilion for the Kivik Art Centre The concrete structure, which at first sight looks rather awkward and monumental, reveals itself at a closer look as a walk-in sculpture which... read Magnus Olesen/Dnmark nominated for the European Design Management Award As part of a distinguished party of companies, the design company Dnmark, acquired by Magnus Olesen 5 months ago, has been nominated as one of four Danish companies for the European Design Management Award. read London is swimming The photos are all by Gigi Cifali, who originally trained as a topographer, from a series called "Absence of Water." The images document the disused pools of London... read Magis' chair Trioli wins the Compasso d'Oro Trioli is a versatile design by Eero Aarnio. It’s a chair for toddlers, and, turned upside-down, it becomes a chair with a higher seat for bigger children... read The Blue Planet Inspired by the shape of water in endless motion, The Blue Planet is shaped as a great whirlpool. The new Denmark’s Aquarium is situated read Almost 'No Design' The Belgian designer Xavier Lust has won international recognition with his ingeniously crafted designs. Since achieving his big breakthrough with 'le banc' ten years ago he has produced designs for well-known manufacturers such as MDF Italia, Driade, De Padova and Extremis... read Hermetically Sealed The plan extends our research into the notion of ‘abstract verandah’ to include a barcode motif in the plan. A series of discrete spaces, organised in a way to suit the client’s particular requirements, results in a coded arrangement that is unique to them... read Between Painting and Object Andreas Christen (1936-2006) is among the most significant Swiss artists and at the same time is one of the most important representatives of Swiss product design. Haus Konstruktiv (The Foundation for Constructive and Concrete Art) is now exhibiting the first broad retrospective... read A Building's Life Frederic Chaubin, photographer and chief editor of the French magazine Citizen K, is searching for places, that have a story to tell and whose unique character he can document with his camera... read Pattern Concrete The architects Blocher Blocher Partners, who specialise in corporate architecture, have developed this by converting the texture of the moss to an abstract motif and then vectorising it. read Two Concepts, One Project This year's European Championships, which are taking place at four venues each in Switzerland and Austria, have also been the occasion for the development or redevelopment of a number of stadiums. read Flare Flare is a pneumatic building facade system, manufactured by WHITEvoid. The system consists of metal flake bodies... read Re- strung A simple cord becomes a complex shape, a line circumscribes a space – furniture and lamps with laced seats or lampshades originated in the nineteen-fifties, and today some of these constructivist pieces have attained cult status. read Busk + Herzog receive Furniture Award 2008 On 24th April Busk + Herzog were awarded the ”Furniture Prize 2008” at the Danish Museum of Art and Design in Copenhagen by a unanimous jury and the most esteemed representatives of the furniture industry in Denmark. read Milan – an initial selection Few exhibitors risk coming to Milan without some new products to show off. And even if not all of these new creations make it all the way to the production stage, they are still a thermometer for trends, vitality and differentiation within the industry. read LED.next technology and “Green Light” “The LED is the light source of the future” is the credo of the Nimbus Group, which is presenting itself at this year’s “Light + Building” fair in Frankfurt with an extensive and powerful LED range based on LED.next technology. read StokkeAustad Since 2004 Øystein Austad and Jonas Ravlo Stokke have formed the design team StokkeAustad, which is based in Oslo. They only opened their design studio last year, although their successful cooperation began during their studies at the 'Oslo School of Architecture and Design'. read Duke Ellington meets King Midas This listed Haus Nürnberg was renovated in 2006 by the architects Reuter Schoger and re-opened as the Hotel Ellington. And, credit where credit is due, guests are confronted with their first unmistakable reference to the jazz age of the golden twenties as soon as they enter the lobby. read Orquideorama The honeycomb-structured roof structure creates an exellent climate for the botanic garden in Medellin, Columbia... read Bizarre I Apocalyptic sentiments. The abandoned futuristic housing complex San Zhi is situated close to the Taiwanese capital Taipeh and was planned in the early 80s as a series of vacation homes. read New Walls, Please! For some years now wallpaper has been celebrating a major revival. Thanks to intelligent materials, new methods of processing and a return of the readiness to risk more graphic wall design, wallpaper is becoming a favoured projection surface for artists, architects and designers. read DDR- Nonstandard Buildings Do the typical ingredients of Berlin, the "Berlin spirit", really exist? Brick, natural stone and concrete, combined with stucco, high ceilings with visible ceiling joists, plastic hard shell chairs, stools with cord seats, large-patterned wallpaper... read Digital Furniture Design With the help of digital technologies it is now possible to create all forms imaginable, whilst streamlining the design process from concept to fabrication. read Upward lighting A new architectural masterpiece is due to be opened on the first of December 2007. With the completion of the Hungerburg funicular, London architect Zaha Hadid will have produced yet another architectural tour de force in Innsbruck to rank alongside her Bergisel ski jump.e Danish designer Jørgen Rasmussen. read The VIA Creation Grants For the maiden run of the 'Meuble Paris' furniture fair, and pursuing its annual Creation Assistance programme, VIA has presented the Carte Blanche grant awarded to designer Jean-Louis Frechin, the ten Project Assistance grants prototypes, as well as the new Partnership Project 'Creation and Skilled Trades', which brought together designer Philippe Nigro and the Compagnons du Devoir journeymen. read The Kevi chair has found a new home Engelbrechts Furniture has just taken over the production and distribution of the internationally renowned Kevi chair and stool series, created by the Danish designer Jørgen Rasmussen. read Crowded House At the imm cologne we our fifth anniversary and we had a big party at the Architonic Lounge and later at the SIDIspot. Thanks for everybody who joined us. It was a great pleasure! Have a look at some pictures! read The logical thought to create useful things For more than ten years the design studio of Luke Pearson and Tom Lloyd has been located in one of Shoreditch's typical small alleys. Today PearsonLloyd Design is one of the most successful design companies in Britain. read Brazilian Design Brazilian design can look back on a long history. And although it was initially strongly influenced by European design ideas, it has since developed its own, unmistakably Brazilian aesthetic. read The power of the empty space The younger generation of japanese architects, including Kengo Kuma, who was born in 1954, has taken a new direction. By using natural materials, traditional methods of manufacturing and very restrained design they are paying tribute to their cultural roots and driving forward a new concept of modern Japanese architecture. read Notes on "Brick: the Exhibition" The European Ceramic Workcenter (.ekwc) in the Netherlands regards itself as an international workshop facility and provides designers, artists and architects with the opportunity to carry out technical and artistic experiments using ceramics and tiles as materials. read