Results: 29

Better together: Poltrona Frau's human-centred new ...

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Emma Moore

13.09.2023

Human connection lies at the centre of two of Poltrona Frau's latest furniture collections, with DUO creating a hospitable atmosphere in the private sphere, and BAY geared towards comfort in public spaces.

Urban rewilding: the fight is on to retake green space

James Wormald

14.08.2023

With the role of our cities changing, these green landscaping projects across Europe are bringing the natural world back home.

BURRI: competence that moves and connects

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Julia Hauch

28.03.2023

From playgrounds in Zurich to the Olympic Games in London, public space specialist BURRI has been bringing projects of all sizes to life for over 120 years, also including the stop infrastructure for Switzerland's Limmattalbahn tram route…

'We cannot not build – but instead build for adaptive ...

Katharina Schwarze

05.07.2022

Oliver Schaper of Gensler, one of the largest architecture firms in the world and currently in partnership with UN-Habitat, discusses the circular construction model. Watch the video to learn more…

‘It’s important to see what a building is made of’: ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

04.07.2022

Martin Voelkle of BIG discusses sustainable architecture: ‘If it’s made from sustainable material, then you should be able to see it.’ Watch the video to hear more…

Building bridges: five garden bridges that connect users to ...

James Wormald

27.06.2022

Green space can be hard to find in modern overgrown cities. These bridges knit together natural areas hidden in urban centres, and connect urbanites with the natural landscapes outside them.

Green Furniture Concept: We are the environment we inhabit

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Emma Moore

08.04.2022

Sweden's Green Furniture Concept creates furniture inspired by nature – reflected not only in its biophilic designs but in the company's sustainable manufacturing practices, too.

Going underground: ten subterranean building projects

James Wormald

31.03.2022

As space becomes more precious above land, it's a natural response to retreat below. Underground construction opens up new worlds, whether to protect us from the elements or to protect the elements from us.

Build a career with DAAily jobs

James Wormald

17.03.2022

As part of the world’s biggest online network for creatives, DAAily jobs helps talented professionals find their dream job, and world-famous firms find fresh minds.

How to rezone the open plan

James Wormald

10.03.2022

Pushing the family together has revealed the functional inadequacies of the open plan. How do we give everyone their own space, without putting up walls?

​​‘Everybody has a right to see the stars’: Daan ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

07.03.2022

Daan Roosegaarde of Studio Roosegaarde discusses connecting with our environment by removing design: ‘I realised we have this amazing light performance in the sky – the stars – but we don’t see them anymore.’ Watch the video to learn

Seven Swiss interiors with the best seats outside the house

James Wormald

09.12.2021

The majestic Alpine landscapes of Switzerland combine the traditional with the contemporary in these seven tourist-enticing interiors that focus on their exteriors.

Gimme shelter: BURRI

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Gerrit Terstiege

22.03.2021

With its advanced disabled access, modular format and digital functionality, Swiss firm BURRI’s smart HSI® ONE bus shelter is just what architects and urban planners have been waiting for.

Moving on up: Green Furniture Concept

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James Wormald

11.02.2021

PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN WEEK: Placemaking practitioners GREEN FURNITURE CONCEPT enrich hectic public spaces with harmony and wellbeing. Their latest modular, sustainable seating system, Ascent, combines nature and geometry – resulting in truly enhanced

Lounging: BoConcept

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Emma Moore

10.02.2021

PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN WEEK: The planners responsible for reimagining the lounge areas of Hamburg and Billund airports found the perfect partners in BoConcept’s high-flying contract division.

The fine line between respect and innovation

Randers Tegl

08.02.2021

Historic neighbourhoods seldomly generate new buildings. But last year, one such sprouted on a historic old boulevard in Denmark.

Getting high: Kusch+Co helps make airports better places to ...

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Simon Keane-Cowell

28.11.2019

In addition to health and office, Kusch+Co demonstrates how seating for transport projects remains one of its enviable core competences.

Sky's the limit: new airport lounges fly high

Peter Smisek

18.02.2019

In-air travel might have lost some of its lustre, but newly designed airport lounges are changing the course with ultra-modern and luxurious settings that invite travellers to unwind or keep working in total comfort.

As above, so below: Benthem Crouwel discuss their new ...

Jaime Heather Schwartz

07.11.2018

Benthem Crouwel’s new North-South metro line brings the overground underground with its urban-space approach to subway-station design.

Going underground: new metro stations

Peter Smisek

07.11.2018

How do you keep the masses on the move while making the passenger experience as efficient and pleasurable as possible? A number of recently completed metro stations show how. All aboard!

Parking for the people: new car parks

Peter Smisek

22.05.2018

With design concepts integrating environmental factors, multi-use function and strong aesthetics, today’s car parks are bringing man and machine into better coexistence.

Taking it to the next level: Groosman's P+R ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

22.05.2018

When it came to the design of a new park-and-ride facility in the Netherlands, Dutch office Groosman chose to give people and place as much right of way as automobiles.

Taking route: 5 bus stations going places

Madeline Bouton

19.08.2017

From the Philippines to the Netherlands, bus-station projects are revving up.

Next Stop: new bus-station architecture

Simon Keane-Cowell

03.08.2016

Summer's here. Let's take a trip! Traditionally the poor cousin to more grandiose transport-architectural types like airports and railway stations, bus-station design is moving into top gear.

Station to Station

Alyn Griffiths

12.04.2016

There has been a dramatic shift in the demands placed by public transportation on contemporary architecture since the turn of the millennium – the need to square the burgeoning of passenger numbers that attends the unstoppable march of urbanisation

Kunst zum Abfliegen und Ankommen

Karin Frei Rappenecker

26.01.2016

(German only) Flughäfen sind Durchgangsstationen und damit eigentliche Unorte – ohne Geschichte und ohne Identität. Kunst in Flughäfen hat das Potenzial, ihnen eine solche zu verleihen. Mit eindrücklicher Wirkung – bis in die Filmwelt.

The Heat is Off

Katharina Sommer

21.09.2015

Long before the advent of air-conditioning, lo-tech means of cooling buildings were well established. Now, architects worldwide are rediscovering the sustainable benefits of natural temperature control through clever design.

The Mile-High Club

Klaus Leuschel

17.08.2015

Ever since Norman Foster's game-changing Stansted Airport was completed almost 25 years ago, it's been full throttle for London's high-tech architects, with their aviation-celebrating terminals around the globe themselves been celebrated for their

Right on So Many Levels: innovative car-park design

Simon Keane-Cowell

18.08.2010

When Joni Mitchell sang that 'they paved paradise and put up a parking lot', she neatly expressed our none-too-positive relationship with that most modern of building types, the car park. Architonic invites you to pull up to the bumper and take a