ComplexCity ComplexCity is an exploration to find a concealed aesthetic by using the pattern formed by the city's roads, which have been growing and evolving randomly through time. read Wohnhäuser Hier liegt ein großformatig-schweres Buch vor mit einem etwas reisserischen Titel, doch der Blick in die porträtierten Häuser besänftigt sofort. read 155 Cumberland For 155 Cumberland Quadrangle Architects Limited deservedly won the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s (RAIC) Award of Excellence for Innovation in Architecture. read Colour therapy Ever since the indiscriminate granting of sub-prime loans led to a crisis on the US housing market the new fascination for colour has spread to the private home. In times of difficulty the trend towards excessive use of colour has always tended to increase: the gloomier people's thoughts, the stronger the uncertainty, the more colourful the prints, the brighter the designs. read Sedus in Dogern The winner of the architectural competition to design the new Sedus office building in Dogern, Germany, has been announced: the Munich-based architect’s office Allmann Sattler Wappner. read COR-Preis 2010 Formgebung und Gestaltung beeinflussen unser gesamtes Leben und damit auch das Wohnen als Grundbedürfnis des Menschen. Der COR-Preis fördert die kontinuierliche Berichterstattung über diesen Themenkreis. read DMY Berlin From 3-7 June the seventh DMY International Design Festival will be taking place in Berlin... read Frank Lloyd Wright The ninth of April 2009 was the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Frank Lloyd Wright, who remains one of the big names of the twentieth century... read Haus K. in O. (House K. in O.) Between 1930 and 1932 the architect Martin Elsaesser planned and constructed a villa in the Hamburg suburb of Othmarschen for the tobacco magnate Philipp F. Reemtsma and his family.. read Datenbank zum Anfassen Ein Archiv spezieller Art wurde jüngst mit dem Materialarchiv ins Leben gerufen. Das Materialarchiv ist eine Symbiose aus Online-Datenbank und einer Materialsammlung zum Anfassen als auch des haptischen Erlebens von Werkstoffen. read Cool & Fresh 2009 This year it was easier to find your way round Salone Satellite than last year, for the very good reason that the really good things were relatively easy to identify. read Trends Salone del Mobile Milano 2009 At times of crisis many manufacturers go back to basics, and the design principle of the "super normal" propagated by Naoto Fukasawa and Jasper Morisson has become the answer for products when times are hard. read Unsung America - Bruce Fifield: Fanny-tastic “The first two minutes of a person’s interaction with a chair are incredibly important to how a person judges that chair and compares it to other products on the marketplace.” read Grand Stand 2 Even the most spectacular trade fair stand disappears again as fast as it was set up and remains only an ephemeral memory. However this two-volume photographic record, the result of a cooperation between publishers Frame and Gestalten Verlag... read The UAE Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 breaks ground Drawing inspiration from the form of a sand dune, the pavilion is a reference to this symbolic feature of the desert landscape shared by each of the seven emirates... read The Matchbox strikes Granted aesthetic planning permission in Amsterdam North, The Matchbox is a blend of artistic, creative and commercial spaces tailored to suit this artistic quarter. read Habitat Machines Science fiction – the world after its destruction in the year 2347. This could be a rough description of the first impression created by the photo-montages of the Canadian artist Dave Trautrimas... read The new materiality of shadows For hundreds of years artists and architects have been fascinated by cast shadows and perspective – the two shaping factors of spatial representation. Today the direct control of production machinery by means of digital design tools imparts an entirely new complexity to 'optical reliefs'. read "Designers become unlimited" The Danes Poul Christiansen and Boris Berlin have been working together as Komplot Design for more than twenty years now. With their many and varied designs, which are characterised by cutting-edge and in many cases experimental production processes, they ... read Maine Journal: Outward Bound Where are the local architects? Sourcing furniture through Addo Novo, perhaps. read Lost Space found - Architecture with a Story In the main hall of the ETH Zurich the Max Frisch Archive's exhibition «The Lost Space of Stiller» continues until 13 March. read Opening MUMUTH UN studio Ben van Berkel are building the new faculty building of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. The new building will act as the interface between the university and the public. read Landhäuser in Berlin (Berlin residences) 1933-1945 In his dissertation for the Berlin FU (Freie Universität) Frank Schmitz took as his subject the private houses individually built during the National Socialist period in Berlin... read Never Ending Winter At the moment design lovers have no choice but to look out of their carefully styled living rooms at their snow-covered balconies full of uninspired furniture and other articles from the local DIY store. read Le Corbusier’s Cabanon The Royal Institute of British Architects and Cassina present the exhibition "Le Corbusier’s Cabanon". read News from the North Selected novelties from the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2009, Part I read Silver&Steel Création Baumann wins 2009 Innovation Prize read In Detail: Materials for Interiors The latest volume in the prestigious 'Edition Detail' is, as the title suggests, devoted to materials for the interior. read Design Talents at the Cologne Design Week 2009 Selected works from [d3] contest at the imm cologne, Arik Levy´s workshop 'Cologne Guesthouse' and projects from the first 'Designers Fair' at the Rheintriadem... read Food Design What's the history of the jelly baby? Who invented fish fingers? Why do we have sugar cubes and chewing gum in the shape of balls?... read RollingStone Two weeks ago 'Betonwerk Rieder' celebrated its fifty years of existence as a company with an out-of-the-ordinary party in the Maishofen auction hall. 'RollingStone'. read Unknown »Bauhaus« by Gropius and Breuer discovered Häuser, the magazine for international architecture, design and lifestyle, has come across a so-far unknown house by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. In its 1/2009 issue the magazine presents the villa in an exclusive photo feature. read DEDON Design Awards Even before the public will have the opportunity to view the new DEDON collections in the showrooms, the company's new products for 2009 have already received the »iF product design award 2009« no less than four times. read Desire A summing-up and stocktaking of the design of the first decade of the new millennium: So what is new, what can we expect and what will we want to have?... read Camp Site The Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair has commissioned the design collective Camp Site to design its 2009 Design Bar. The focus will be on functional style and re-usability. read FREEZE project FREEZE, a celebration in Anchorage Alaska of life in the north, brings together people from around the world to highlight the grace and grandeur of the north through conferences, performances and exhibitions. read Unsung America - Maine Journal: Like Father, Not Like Son As a teenager, I remember flipping through the back pages of The New York Times Magazine and stumbling across advertisements for Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers. read Max Bill 100 & ‚Die gute Form’ (good design) 'Max Bill 100' is the title of an exhibition at 'Haus Konstruktiv' in Zurich (until 22.3.09) dedicated to the work of Max Bill, the internationally known artist, architect and product designer. On 22 December 2008 Bill would have been 100 years old, reason enough for a retrospective. read On a large scale If not entirely forgotten, so far the oeuvre of the Lausanne architect Jean Tschumi has at least been known for the most part only to insiders. This is no accident, in that post-war modernism has suffered from the popularity of classical modernism worldwide. read Birkerød Sports and Leisure Centre This newly completed sports and leisure complex has a distinctive, sculptural quality, further enhanced by the building’s essential transparency... read LED – staging light and colour Are we on the threshold of a change of direction in the design field? read Polyhydroxybutyrates (PHB) reinforced by nano particles As a result of diminishing resources and rising prices the age of oil is drawing to a close. Accordingly there is increasing interest in renewable raw materials as alternative sources... read Maine Journal: Needles in Haystack Driving along Maine’s intestinal coastline, words and phrases like “bottom line” and “hardscrabble” appear in street and farm names. Appropriate: The local climate can be challenging, and its craggy land able to drive an Anne Proulx character to madness. read Cabinetmakers' Autumn On 21 November the curtain went up for this year's exhibition, which is entitled "Fifty Fifty", a title which is intended to highlight the shared interdependence and responsibility of designers and manufacturers... read WATT The world's first ecological disco opens in Rotterdam, Holland read What does sustainability mean? Sustainability is both a commandment and a buzzword for our times. But what do we mean by sustainable design? Are sustainable production and sustainable marketing at all possible in a global market place? At this year’s Orgatec we discussed the subject with representatives from the furniture industry in an attempt to find out how ‘green’ design is interpreted. read «Design as Italian Value» Ceramic tiles as wall decoration were brought to southern Europe by the Moors and the first European ceramics industry was to be found in the Roman Empire. It is therefore not surprising that the most important trade fair for the ceramics industry takes place in Bologna, Italy. read FlatPak Industrially prefabricated and modular dwellings have long since established themselves, in the USA, in particular... read Wooden shacks and delusions of grandeur Katrin Greiling currently lives and works as a designer in Dubai, where she constantly tours the city with her camera, recording in her photographs everyday life in this unique cosmopolitan metropolis within the Arab world. A world of contradictions. read »Cold War Modernism« The collapse of Adolf Hitler's tausendjähriges 'Reich' led to a new world order, with on the one side the USA and NATO, which came into being in 1949, facing their counterpart in the form of the USSR and its alliance of Warsaw Pact states, an alliance which lasted from 1955 to 1991. read Wearable Architecture Architecture succeeds again and again in taking our breath away with its spectacular forms, making us wish that we could take these works of art with us in our everyday lives instead of just admiring them where they stand. This wish will be fulfilled this season by several collections. read Understanding Architects´ criteria Until the end of last year Marc Krusin had spent ten years as head of the design department at Lissoni Associati. Now he concentrates on the work in his own studio... read Winter bathing ship At the moment the bathing ship in the East harbour of Berlin, one of Berlin's most attractive open-air pools, is being made ready for the winter. read Money Origami Origami is an ancient Japanese art of paper folding. The goal of this art is to create a representation of an object. read Egg Design Egg Designs do not adhere to any given formula of design, but rather approaches all projects with a common contemporary design solution. read Filo Table With the Filo table the EOOS design team has conceived a table to match the success of the Filo office chair... read Grete Jalk´s GJ Chair back in Production Lange Production feels very proud and honoured that they are able to present Grete Jalk’s best known pieces of furniture from 1963 – her moulded plywood chair – the GJ Chair – and the GJ Nesting Table... read Singapore Supergarden Singapore Supergarden brings together young designers from various design disciplines in a unique design dialogue. 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 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 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 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 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 Bizarre I Apocalyptic sentiments. The abandoned futuristic housing complex San Zhi is situated close to the Taiwanese capital Taipei 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

Prototyp A research project at the Institute for Theory at Zurich's University of the Arts looks at current furniture works involving design and art. read A walk through history The proposal for the Macedonia Fight Museum by the Swedish architects Joakim Kaminsky and Fredrik Kjellgren consists of a chronological walk through Macedonian history, covered in the soft light filtrated by Macedonian marble. read DMY Berlin For five whole days the organisers of the DMY Festival invited designers and a specialist public from all over the world to a colourful design spectacle by the Spree. read Garth Roberts: On His Own Terms There is a roughly 50-50 chance of meeting up with Garth Roberts in Milan. Like so many product designers nowadays Roberts darts from client meeting to seminar to fellowship with seeming disregard for international borders. read Katharina Grosse. I'd like a large studio in the centre of town The book can be read as a kind of continuation of the title, in that it is a monologue by the artist Katharina Grosse about building a house and about her own house, a highly personal description of thoughts and perceptions... read RETREAT On June 28th the exhibition RETREAT at KunstFort Asperen will be open to the public. Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos invited 12 artists to exhibit works which provide surprising interpretations on the theme of RETREAT from differing disciplines and perspectives. read "Design as a second life" With his playful design Alain Gilles creates entire worlds which are conspicuous for their colour. As the product of a conscious exploration of the possible multiple personalities of an individual object, Gilles has now created a piece of furniture which is designed along strict but at the same time geometrically free lines. read Interviews Milano and Euroluce 2009 read Entirely Brazilian From this year on ClassiCon will be marketing some of Sergio Rodrigues´ classics. We had the honour of interviewing him in Milan. read Grand Pari(s) “We have to think big”, said President Sarkozy on 30 April 2009 at the opening of the exhibition at the Palais de Chaillot, where ten of thirty-seven future models for the re-design of Paris are on display. read Selected novelties from the Salone del Mobile Milano See our first selection of novelties from this year´s Salone del Mobile. More will follow. read Urban Swiss Design: Glattalbahn Zurich With its 12.7 km the Glattalbahn runs through the (urban) landscape like a red thread, binding the individual towns and districts of the Glattal - noth aglomeration of Zurich - into a single urban space. read Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics The Center was designed by the Californian firm of architects Morphosis and named after its generous sponsor Charles H. Cahill, who helped finance a large share of the 50 million dollar building... read ORDOS 100 #34 The program: a house. Our concept: universal need for shelter. Solution: a void. read Cult A picture book of a very special kind, dealing with things which have the ambition of being more than simply functional objects. read ISH Frankfurt/Main 2009 Video-interviews from the world’s leading trade fair for bathroom- , building-, energy-, air-conditioning Technology and Renewable Energies read Interieur / Exterieur Nya Nordiska, a leading international textile company based in Dannenberg, North Germany, whose early stages were strongly influenced by Scandinavian design, recently received a highly unusual enquiry from the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. read sweet hope Sweet Hope is a curtain fabric, designed by the acclaimed Japanese designer Akira Minagawa. Ideal for offices, it offers superb heat and light regulation properties. read Herzog & de Meuron 1997 - 2001 From being known only to insiders Herzog & de Meuron have become megastars, and their awards include the 2001 Pritzker Preis and the 2007 Praemium Imperiale. Volume 4 of their complete work has now been published and covers the years 1997 to 2001... read schmidt hammer lassen architects to build largest library in Scandinavia Scandinavia's largest public library will be realized on the waterfront of Aarhus in western Denmark... read News from the Greenhouse Selected novelties from the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2009, Part II read The Five Favourites At Stockholm Furniture Fair we asked a number of designers about their five favourite pieces there. These will be presented here in a series of articles, beginning with the favourites and comments of Thomas Bernstrand. read "Mondays with Papst" On 16 February 2009 the "Mondays with Papst" exhibition opened in the old boiler house on the Wilkhahn site in Bad Münder. read 9th Andreu World's International Design Competition All design students or designers can take part of this edition, without age limitation. read Maine Journal No design tour of Maine is complete without a stop in Portland. This tiny city is the largest in the state. Somehow, that’s emblematic: Despite all its efforts to be cosmopolitan, muscular coastline and forests are always nearby. read Urban Art Photography At the end of the Eighties Jürgen Große began to document street art in Berlin with his camera. This new large-format illustrated volume contains a selection from twenty years of intensive field research... read Pebble Shapes from Bulo Last year, the Bulo designers developed Kei, a new modular desk concept with the organic form of a pebble serving as the starting point and the chaotic-harmonic overall image of a pebble beach as the architectural finishing point. read An intermediate space At this year's imm cologne Degenhardt presented 'Landed', the prototype of a prefabricated house, in cooperation with Richard Lampert. read 'Design has to be fun...' An interview with the ambitious and talented german designer Sebastian Herkner. read Functional design in artistic form Like the original design from the year 1955, this solid-wood chair is available in versions for both adults and children. read The Design Vote The Design Vote presents design articles which are rated by consumers by a simple voting process. read RELAXX sport and leisure center The new RELAXX Sport Centre ar Bratislava enters the rush locality, harmonizes and directs the noise and chaos. This house is like a sculpture symbolizing the beauty of restlessness and the poetics of velocity. read Thonet at Media Plaza The Frankenberg-based furniture manufacturer, has been commissioned to furnish the meeting and conference rooms of the Media Plaza in the 'Jaarbeurs' in Utrecht. read Details In the form of a script Kristina Raderschad has put together a collection of annotated illustrations which deal with those aspects of our homes which do not normally form the highlights of books and magazines on home furnishing... read Welcome to Vertigo Viewing platforms promise a very special kind of experience. However, in spite of the breathtaking views they provide, these spectacularly constructed platforms themselves are often not noticed. read Anish Kapoor: Memory As a commission on behalf of Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin 1991 Turner Prize winner Anish Kapoor has created a sculpture made of Corten steel which... read Possible Furniture The »Possible Furniture« series plays with the perception of balance/unbalance and thereby questions the designer’s role. read Blow up sheet metal An interview with Oskar Zieta, architect at the CAAD-professorship at ETH Zurich read The new Vitruvius, or what is architecture? Let's be honest, which of us has read the 'De architectura libri decem' ("Ten books about architecture") by Vitruvius, or even part of the work? Even though searching Google for 'Vitruvius' will produce no less than a staggering 3.6 million hits... read Design The Conran Directory of Design - Intelligence Made Visible read 2nd. YDMI Days in Berlin The three-day event kicked off with an extensive aperitif on the gallery of the 'Villa Elisabeth' in Berlin, which then provided a wonderful background for an excellent dinner, stimulating conversations and interesting presentations. read “Urban Canyon” Townhouses Create Eco-Friendly Village Community in Seattle Boston, November 18, 2008 – A new townhouse development in Seattle has created a distinctly rural yet eco-modern village environment within an urban setting. read Blickfang 08 Zurich From 21 to 23 November 2008 Zurich's Kongresshaus opened its doors for the twelfth time to Blickfang, Switzerland's major design exhibition. With «Espace Romandie» it provided a clear focus this autumn and for the first time devoted a special exhibition to design from western Switzerland. read DesignBuildBLUFF DesignBuildBLUFF is a studio headed by philisopher and architect Hank Louis. At the University of Utah, College of Architecture and Planning first and second year students of architecture are given the opportunity every spring to build housing for poor families on the Navajo tribal reserve near Bluff, Utah. read Unsung America: Less Callous in Calais In searching for an American design, one may as well start at a bookend. The sun rises over Calais, Maine, the easternmost city in the United States. But it has set here, too. read Prefab, High-Concept and Green THOMAS SMALL is an accomplished cook, so it’s important for him to try new and exotic ingredients every now and then. When it came to the construction of his eco-friendly house, that’s exactly what his architects gave him. read High-Tech meets eco Stronger ecological awareness and rising oil prices are creating a favourable climate for the increased use of biodegradable plastics read S 123 H The British designer James Irvine has created a height-adjustable bar stool for Thonet, which impresses with its simple elegance. Its curved foot support is in line with the company's tubular steel tradition, which goes right back to the Bauhaus days. read Koolhaas Houselife The film derives its humorous scenes more from the impact which results when two worlds collide with each other... read Professional family excursion The twelfth Designers' Saturday took place in Langenthal during the weekend from 8 - 9 November. In contrast to the major furniture fairs, Designers' Saturday focuses more on the setting for the products – within the production facilities of the six organisers. read 104 CENTQUATRE is a place of artistic creation and production. Open to all forms of art, this 39,000 m² (419, 792 sq. feet) space is an original architectural whole in which art meets the public head-on. read 100% Belgian design Today’s garden architecture may be more playful and frivolous than ever, the new collection by Belgian architect and designer Vincent Van Duysen for Tribù goes resolutely its own way. read Timeless doesn’t necessarily mean boring When in 1981 Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager hit on the idea of converting a New York flophouse into a luxury hotel, the world was still a very different place. read 'Wire chair' and 'The third room' The students studying interior design at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts have now been tested in two ways simultaneously. read Chassis Stefan Diez couldn't have conceived a more appropriate name for the multi-purpose chair which he has, over a development period of three years, designed for Wilkhahn, the German producer of office furniture. read Fuller Houses Richard Buckminster Fuller and the Dymaxion House – the names are as inseparable as Siamese twins. Starting with the last Dymaxion version of 1946 these residential machines, icons of utopian 'dynamic-maximum-ion' experimentation... read Westside The history of the shopping mall as we know it today began in the Nineteen Fifties. In Los Angeles Victor Gruen, an architect who had emigrated to the US from Austria, felt the lack of the traditional European city centre with its pedestrian infrastructure. read Omotesando Commercial Complex 2008 UNStudio builds at Meiji dori, a boulevard well known for luxury brand flagship stores read Share Shop A shared sales week with customer and friends of LHCB by Jordi Torres 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 Tactile Legerity Cork enables innovative production methods and new ways of interaction with the environment. Widely praised as a pioneering force in green trends, this tactile and unconventional material... 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 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 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 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. At least this year's slogan of 'Go green!' was in line with the simple temporary architecture. The official press release spoke of a greenhouse in which 'budding designers can blossom' and 'an explosion of green' is unfolded. Has the influence of Stockholm's 'Greenhouse' perhaps spread this far south?<br />Regardless of the slogan, the eleventh Satellite left an inspiring and positive impression. Many international designers came up with daringly staged presentations which were a joy to behold. This year it was the Finnish designers who made the greatest impression, and the products they presented demonstrated a corresponding level of quality and potential. 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 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

Einbaumöbel Einbaumöbel sind Zwitter zwischen Architektur und Möbel, denn sie sind eben nicht "mobil", also beweglich, sondern fester Bestandteil der "Immobilie". Johannes Kottjé hat diesen meist sehr individuellen Einrichtungselementen ein höchst anregendes Buch gewidmet. read O.H.W.O.W. Aaron Bondaroff and Al Moran's O.H.W.O.W. invades Athens and presents the 'Greasy Spoon pop-up shop' designed by Rafael de Cardenas of Architecture at Large. read Architecture through the shirt cuff With its wiener.architektur.zitate the wiener.manschettenknopf.linie is presenting a new edition which is based on Vienna's architecture and architectural history. read U.F.O The NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf questions the differences or similarities of contemporary design-art. read Deadline Today! The architectural platform wonderland invites to the exhibition opening of 'Deadline Today!' on June 17, and talks competion trends over on June 18 at the symposium 'Making Competitions' at Architekturzentrum Vienna. read BLITZEN BENZ BANG. Daimler Art Collection The Daimler Art Collection is regarded as one of the oldest and most important of Germany's corporate collections and at present contains approx. 1800 works... read Chris Redfern: Echoes of Ettore Chris Redfern shouldn’t worry himself about youth. The British-born designer is only 36. For one-third of his life he has worked with Ettore Sottsass. And since Sottsass’ death in December 2007, Redfern has deftly led the studio in closing one chapter and starting a new one. read The Bauhaus comes from Weimar On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the State Bauhaus Weimar, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar is presenting a large overview exhibition, “The Bauhaus comes from Weimar” from 1 April until 5 July, focussing on the early years of the legendary school of design. read Economic crisis – disaster or opportunity? We have not experienced a crisis of this magnitude since 'Black Friday' in 1929, when the stock market crash rocked the world economy. However, times of recession do not necessarily mean stagnation. In the field of public investment they instead provide an opportunity and a challenge to innovate. read Carchitecture The big car manufacturers have recently discovered an effective marketing instrument in a new kind of corporate architecture: large museums and car collection centres built right next to the production plant, where the customer can experienced an idealised world of the automobile. read Milano....2009 Those who had expected that during times of financial crisis the Salone as a major event would this time have to struggle with empty spaces or a sharp fall in the number of exhibitors and visitors in fact experienced exactly the opposite. read Festival of temporary architecture? Whereas on previous occasions Milan always proved to be a festival of temporary architecture, this year we had to look hard for innovative concepts. read Gandia Blasco Announces the 4th Outdoor Furniture contest The object of this year’s contest, aimed at students and young design professionals, is the design of a parasol, pergola or pergola system. read Supernova The cooperation between artist and designer Mike Meiré and the upmarket manufacturer Dornbracht has lasted for 17 years now. It's a cooperation which has led to a number of remarkable projects... read Award winners Fries & Zumbühl Kevin Fries and Jakob Zumbühl are the proud winners of three 'iF product design awards' and 'reddot design awards' read Sanitary fixtures as furniture, taps as sculptural objects Even though for 50 years it has been one of the world's leading trade fairs for the building industry, at first glance all the things which nowadays lie behind the three letters ISH are not immediately obvious. read The Five Favourites - Part 2 At Stockholm Furniture Fair we asked a number of designers about their five favourite pieces there. These will be presented here in a series of articles. read Hundredstensunits The result of the continuing creative dialogue between three english designers is a range of beautiful products which are characterised by a distinctive sense for materials and proportions. read Escape Hill The controversial Tsunami Museum in Aceh will come to represent a fitting place for reflection but at its opening last week a row over the 700 families still to be re-housed overshadowed the event. read Housing moves on Starting with the concept of 'individual design for living', what forms, themes and tendencies determine the parameters for today's housing design? read Box of Tricks Gary Chang, a Hong Kong architect, lives in a tiny apartment, but thanks to accordion-like wall units, he can create at least 24 different room configurations. read MADE expo 2009 We are familiar with Milan as a major centre for design during the Salone del Mobile. However, we also wanted to know how MADE expo, which specialises in products for the construction industry, is developing as a counterpart to Munich's BAU. read Fitting Forward Fitting Forward is a new Hamburg concept store, in which Bitten Stetter and Jutta Südbeck cheekily show what is normally reported in hushed tones and where overall social design processes are reflected. read Materiology This is an exciting and stimulating book which is both an enjoyable read and a detailed and accurate work of reference! read Black and White is the new Green When the times are uncertain the simplicity provided by black and white categories acts like a lifeline in a sea of randomness. read The Modulor House With a range of more than 20 000 materials Modulor is probably the major supplier of model construction products for architects, designers and artists... read «Sex and the City?» In architecture! The »Empire State Building» and the «Chrysler Building» lie on the bed in highly suggestive positions. The airship promoting a brand of rubber hangs limply like a condom over the edge of the bed. read The Making of Architonic Concept Space II The vision behind the Architonic Concept Spaces is to bring together innovative designers on the one hand with the latest technologies, materials and producers on the other. read Unsung America: Pop!Tech Pop!Tech is a yearly conference held in Camden, Maine. Andrew Zolli will tell you, though, that it’s really a community of innovators whose ongoing dialogue just happens to culminate in the annual retreat. read 2009 Detail prizes awarded On 14 January the 2009 Detail prizes were presented in seven special categories at Munich's 'Künstlerhaus' in the course of the Detail celebration gala. read Europe´s Bio-Battery Europe remains the theme. Kem Koolhaas has recently presented a complex master plan for a European energy park in the North Sea... read Grcic's smallest piece of furniture Who better than Konstantin Grcic to engage for a project which involves the design of functional and stylish folding objects? read Louis XIV Extruded Sebastian Brajkovic's works are morphings – re-interpretations of antique items of furniture with a cultural origin which can be clearly identified, generally chairs in the style of the 17th century... read Zumtobel Highlights Show The Zumtobel Highlights Show has been kicked off on 2 September, which marked the beginning of a 23,000 kilometer journey for the product innovations. read Fifth "Architecture + Office XXL" innovation prize awarded In the course of the Orgatec 2008 international office exhibition in Cologne the "Architecture and Office XXL" innovation prize award presentations were made in the historic building of the Design Post on 21 October 2008. read Pilgrims Architecture In order to create centres along the way where the pilgrims can rest and pray the municipalities involved have commissioned eleven artists and architects to develop architectural solutions for this out-of-the-ordinary context... read Make Up Your Lamp Lesslamp is considered more a happening than a light: The user must release the light drilling or breaking the ceramic piece with a pickaxe. read Architonic Concept Spaces The concept is innovation: at last year's imm cologne Architonic participated with a stand which demonstrated the potential which lies in the combination of innovative materials and progressive design solutions provided by future-oriented production processes... read Cretan Project 'So we are given this wonderful job in Crete, to renovate a house, and - should the Client overlook our complete lack of previous experience in renovation, also design the furniture for it.' read How many ideas fit in a seat bucket? For the fifth time Bene recently invited ten selected firms of architects and ten design studios to a creative dialogue. The seat shell of the Rondo chair by Bene represented the basic material and the question to participants was: how many ideas will fit into a seat shell? read Undiszipliniert / Undisciplined The Phenomenon of Space in Art, Architecture and Design read "I have created a sculpture" Jørn Utzon, one of the greatest architects of the past century, died last Saturday, 29.11.2008. read No Man's Land's Water Supply The climatic changes are forcing architects to come up with new and visionary designs in order to make living possible in the most unusual places on Earth. read Laboratory of the future in the desert The concept of an ideal city is often connected with the idea of Utopia. A city which is planned from nothing is an attempt to provide an environment for an ideal concept of society. read The quiet revolution There are now a number of companies on the market which specialise in the development of micro wind turbines that enable individual power generation... read The floating home In many countries there is a long tradition of living on the water, and even today many people feel the desire to live close to it. For them the solution is a houseboat or floating home, a boat which is anchored in a specific berth and is their permanent residence. read Attractive LED lamps? The light-emitting diode (LED), which we are all familiar with as an electronic signal or in the form of advertising and background lighting, has for some years now been conquering new areas of application. Its tremendous potential for energy savings and innovation is increasingly stimulating the lighting industry and many designers... read Lichterloh Lichterloh deals in classic original art and furniture from the 20th century. Since 1990, Lichterloh has presented international and Austrian designs on its expansive premises near Vienna’s Museum Quarter. read Why Do Architects Wear Black? Cordula Rau has collected the answers to this question given by 100 architects and designers, acquiring in the process an impressive collection of signatures... read LAVA designs Future Hotel showcase For the future hotel showcase room -part of the Inhaus2 research project- the Fraunhofer IAO (Institute for Work Organisation) approached LAVA to become a project partner responsible for the design and realisation. read Ettore Sottsass’ Vermächtnis Die aktuelle Sonderausstellung bei DOMIZIL Marc Stutzer AG in Basel zeigt die letzten Arbeiten, die Ettore Sottsass vor seinem Tod noch autorisiert hat: Die Spiegelserie ‚ Gli specchi di Dionisio’, produziert von Glas Italia. read Eric Degenhardt for Wilkhahn The briefing for «Velas» was to develop furniture at which informal discussions could take place after the conference , especially in semi-public rooms such as lobbies and foyers. read Eidgenössische Förderpreise für Design 2008 The Federal Swiss Ministry of Culture and the Bellerive museum present 19 award-winning works by 22 prize winners in the 2008 Swiss design competition. read YDMI Days 2008 The three-day event – initiated by the Design Council (Rat für Formgebung) - kicked off with an extensive aperitif among prototypes and designs on the gallery of the 'Villa Elisabeth' in Berlin, which then provided a wonderful background for an excellent dinner, stimulating conversations and interesting presentations by the 'Young Professionals'. read Conversations with Mies van der Rohe In the series "Conversations with ..." published by the Princeton Architectural Press, which also includes conversations with Le Corbusier, Louis Khan and Rem Koolhaas, the latest addition is "Conversations with Mies van der Rohe"... read FIAC 08 At this time of the year nature reveals itself in a variety of colours and the world of design seems to have adapted itself to the season, dazzling and disturbing us with the kind of forms and structures we become familiar with when we walk in the October forests. read Schumacher Tower in Abu Dhabi Like most LAVA projects the Schumacher Tower represents a form of architecture which integrates complex construction technology and novel digital design methods... read August House The Joubert Park Project is an attempt at artistic intervention in the most difficult district in Johannesburg. read 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 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 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 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 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 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