Resultados: 301

Lighting Design Week: UNStudio

Simon Keane-Cowell

17.03.2021

'Today, light is becoming almost like data. It's so well-connected to technology,' says Ben van Berkel from UNStudio. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

Lighing Design Week: Ulrike Brandi Licht

Simon Keane-Cowell

16.03.2021

'Light creates the connection between our bodies and the architecture of built spaces,' says Ulrike Brandi. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

Lighting Design Week: Professional Insights

Simon Keane-Cowell

15.03.2021

Watch Ulrike Brandi from Ulrike Brandi Licht, UNStudio's Ben van Berkel, Lucas Goy of Les Éclaireurs, and lighting designer Michael Anastassiades!

TECHNOLOGY DESIGN WEEK: OVERTIME!

Simon Keane-Cowell

05.03.2021

Get some bonus technology insights from architect Carlo Ratti, Vanessa Quirk of Sidewalk Labs, and smart-home expert Andreas Dörflinger...

TECHNOLOGY DESIGN WEEK: DÖRFLINGER

Simon Keane-Cowell

04.03.2021

‘If it's not a smart home you're building these days, then it's already an old house,’ says German smart-home expert Andreas Dörflinger. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

TECHNOLOGY DESIGN WEEK: SIDEWALK LABS

Simon Keane-Cowell

03.03.2021

‘I think inherent in the term "smart city" is a bit of a whiff of techno-solutionism,’ says Vanessa Quirk of Sidewalk Labs. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

TECHNOLOGY DESIGN WEEK: CARLO RATTI

Simon Keane-Cowell

02.03.2021

'The Internet of Things civilisation has to find its architectural expression,’ says Carlo Ratti. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

TECHNOLOGY DESIGN WEEK: PROFESSIONAL INSIGHTS

Simon Keane-Cowell

01.03.2021

Watch architect Carlo Ratti, Vanessa Quirk from Sidewalk Labs, and smart-home expert Andreas Dörflinger!

PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN WEEK: ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

Simon Keane-Cowell

12.02.2021

'I'm in favour of privatising public space,' says Patrik Schumacher of Zaha Hadid Architects. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN WEEK: OMA

Simon Keane-Cowell

11.02.2021

'People are the best insurance against anything bad you might associate with a public space,' explains Jason Long of OMA. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN WEEK: MVRDV

Simon Keane-Cowell

10.02.2021

'Public elements need to be incorporated into the concept and the budget from the start,' argues Gideon Maasland, director at MVRDV. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN WEEK: GRIMSHAW ARCHITECTS

Simon Keane-Cowell

09.02.2021

'The spaces between buildings are more important to a city than the buildings themselves,' argues Neill McClements, partner at Grimshaw Architects. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN WEEK: PROFESSIONAL INSIGHTS

Simon Keane-Cowell

08.02.2021

Watch Grimshaw Architects, MVRDV, OMA and Zaha Hadid Architects!

FURNITURE DESIGN WEEK: ADAM NATHANIEL FURMAN

Simon Keane-Cowell

29.01.2021

'Furniture is the interface between our bodies and space,' says London-based designer Adam Nathaniel Furman. Watch now for more insights!

FURNITURE DESIGN WEEK: CLAESSON KOIVISTO RUNE

Simon Keane-Cowell

28.01.2021

'It's the death of really hard-edged contract furniture,' says Eero Koivisto of Swedish architecture and design office Claesson Koivisto Rune. Watch now for more insights!

FURNITURE DESIGN WEEK: KONSTANTIN GRCIC

Simon Keane-Cowell

26.01.2021

‘Good new products are never an invention. They're an evolution,’ argues Konstantin Grcic. Watch now for more commentary from the renowned industrial designer.

FURNITURE DESIGN WEEK: STUDIO MK27

Simon Keane-Cowell

26.01.2021

‘Architecture without interiors is just a sculpture,’ says Diana Radomysler, director and interiors expert at Marcio Kogan-founded office Studio MK27. Watch now for more insights!

Domestic bliss?: the future of home

Simon Keane-Cowell

26.01.2021

FURNITURE DESIGN WEEK: 'The home will continue to be a major hub in the post-pandemic future.' WGSN forecasting expert Lisa White sets her sights on 2030.

FURNITURE DESIGN WEEK: BARBER OSGERBY

Simon Keane-Cowell

25.01.2021

'The office is going the way of the dining room,' says Jay Osgerby, one half of the innovative design duo Barber Osgerby. Watch now for more insights!

FURNITURE DESIGN WEEK: Professional Insights

Simon Keane-Cowell

25.01.2021

Watch Barber Osgerby, Studio MK27, Konstantin Grcic, Claesson Koivisto Rune and Adam Nathaniel Furman!

THE NEW ILLUMINATI: AMEICO

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Simon Keane-Cowell

18.11.2020

The story of how a Connecticut-based design distributor is introducing some of the best classic and contemporary European lighting designs to choice projects across North America.

The search is on: Architonic now offers an even better ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

23.07.2020

A raft of new search filters, plus a completely new image-based search functionality, give architects and other architonic.com users greater research efficiency and product inspiration.

ARCHITONIC x ARCHDAILY: WELCOME TO THE WORLD’S LARGEST ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

04.05.2020

Architonic has acquired archdaily.com – the leading architecture platform globally – with an ambitious plan for growth, innovation and even better service.

Page-turners: 5 bookstores with stories to tell

Simon Keane-Cowell

08.05.2019

Asian bookshops are offering bibliophiles an altogether more immersive experience via bold architectural concepts.

Ain’t no mountain high enough: Kuehne + Nagel x Mondrian ...

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Simon Keane-Cowell

19.03.2019

Premium Project Logistics partner, the global logistics specialists Kuehne + Nagel, know a thing or two about problem-solving when it comes to delivering your products on site and on time.

The Full Monty: Welcome to Premium Project Logistics

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Simon Keane-Cowell

19.03.2019

Premium Project Logistics is a new, end-to-end logistics service from two industry leaders – Architonic and Kuehne + Nagel – specially designed for high-end projects.

From Bauhaus to Wowhouse: 5 modernism-embracing builds

Simon Keane-Cowell

13.03.2019

100 years since the founding of the Bauhaus. 5 contemporary projects that channel its spirit.

Alternative facts: imm cologne 2019

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Simon Keane-Cowell

04.12.2018

January’s big-top international design fair is as much a platform for new ideas and inspiration as it is a showcase for the latest products.

Soft spots: Heimtextil 2019

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Simon Keane-Cowell

14.11.2018

A new concept for its 2019 edition sees HEIMTEXTIL also tighten its contract focus. Frankfurt in January is where architects go to discover the latest textile products and ideas with space-shaping value.

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.

Squaring the circle: WilkinsonEyre’s Gasholders London ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

24.04.2018

British architectural practice WilkinsonEyre’s repurposing of a trio of listed Victorian gasholders has reinscribed their status as a London architectural landmark.

Innovation spotlight: ARCHITECT@WORK COPENHAGEN 2018

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Simon Keane-Cowell

02.04.2018

ARCHITECT@WORK will take place for the third time from 16 to 17 May in Copenhagen. At the exquisitely curated international trade fair, over 300 carefully selected exhibitors will present the newest and most innovative products, materials and

The Architecture of Learning: CF Møller

Simon Keane-Cowell

19.03.2018

One of the typological furrows successfully ploughed by Danish practice CF Møller is the design of large school schemes. Its recently completed Copenhagen International School occupies both an intriguing site – on the extension of a former quay

Say Cheese: 5 dental practices with bite

Simon Keane-Cowell

06.03.2018

If you want a stable career, become a dentist. People will always have teeth. And if you want a reliable flow of work as an architect, you could do worse than to design dental practices. Here's a short international survey of five rather toothy new

Switched on: digital-first retail spaces

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Simon Keane-Cowell

23.01.2018

Integrated digital technology in-store: it’s the sign of the times. ISE’s half-day Digital Signage Summit offers exclusive market intelligence and excellent networking opportunities.

The revolution is now: Smart Building Conference at ISE 2018

Historia de la marca

Simon Keane-Cowell

23.01.2018

One day. Over 30 of the finest minds in smart building.

This man is seeing things: Carlo Ratti

Historia de la marca

Simon Keane-Cowell

23.01.2018

Seated at the top table when it comes to the white-hot debate around smart technologies and how they can – and will – shape the development of our cities, architect Carlo Ratti gives a not-to-be-missed opening address at ISE 2018.

Off-menu: exemplary restaurant and bar interiors

Simon Keane-Cowell

11.12.2017

In the digital age, restaurants and bars remain bastions not only for good food and drink but also for good old-fashioned, real-time social-networking. Tasked alongside chefs who feed the senses, architects around the world are serving up memorable

Do Dutch: the Netherlands’ special exhibition at Ambiente ...

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Simon Keane-Cowell

06.12.2017

Next February’s edition of AMBIENTE – the leading international consumer-goods trade fair in Frankfurt – sees award-winning product designer Robert Bronwasser curate a recontextualisation, and celebration, of everyday Dutch design culture.

All's Fair: imm cologne goes digital

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Simon Keane-Cowell

02.11.2017

imm cologne, the international design fair that’s long operated as a platform for new concepts and trends, takes the lead once more, making digitalisation an integral component of its offering for 2018.

À TABLE!: hospitality focus at Ambiente 2018

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Simon Keane-Cowell

01.11.2017

It's often the detail that counts. Particularly when you're designing a memorable restaurant, bar or café project. Architects know where to go for inspiration and specification – Ambiente 2018.

Same same but different: Unique Youniverse at Domotex 2018

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Simon Keane-Cowell

24.10.2017

Architonic talks to architect Peter Ippolito – head juror for Domotex's forthcoming Framing Trends exhibition – about the international flooring fair's new thematic focus on individualisation and what it means for architects and other specifiers.

Talking Shop: Nendo on retail design

Simon Keane-Cowell

27.09.2017

With a raft of paradigm-shifting retail-design projects to its name, prolific Japanese design studio Nendo is one smart shopper.

A Bigger Splash: New Wellness Architecture

Simon Keane-Cowell

05.07.2017

Architects engage the senses in a series of pools, spas and bathhouses, designed to bring the body back to the here and now. 

Your Floor: Domotex 2018

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Simon Keane-Cowell

06.06.2017

DOMOTEX in Hanover, the leading international exhibition for floor coverings, will launch its very first keynote theme in January 2018 under the title "Unique Youniverse" leading an industry shift toward in individualised flooring.

The Shapeshifter: Alain Berteau

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Simon Keane-Cowell

29.03.2017

Simple, meaningful designs that eschew trends in favour of long-selling products pushing typological boundaries – this is the stuff of Brussels-based studio ALAIN BERTEAU DESIGNWORKS.

When Beat met Lukas: FluidSolids

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Simon Keane-Cowell

27.02.2017

When Zurich-based FLUIDSOLIDS founder Beat Karrer met fellow Swiss Lukas Scherrer, owner of Californian design studio SHIBULERU, it was the start of a collaborative bromance that keeps on giving.

Constructive Thinking: new school architecture

Simon Keane-Cowell

19.02.2017

Architects get clever, designing innovative and inspiring school environments that change the way students move, think and feel.

Run to the Hills!: new cabin architecture

Simon Keane-Cowell

20.01.2017

Trying to square your new year’s resolution to get out more with a desire to get away from it all? Your cabin waits…

Get a Room!: new hotel projects

Simon Keane-Cowell

02.01.2017

With the hospitality industry globally growing year on year – aided in no small part by the growth in global tourism – it's time to check into some of most noteworthy, recently completed hotel projects out there.

Restauration: inspiring restaurant projects

Simon Keane-Cowell

14.12.2016

It's not just hot in the kitchen. Restaurant commissions are getting architects' creative juices flowing across the board, making for unexpected dining environments and memorable experiences.

Natural Highs: Arup's architecture in wood

Simon Keane-Cowell

30.11.2016

At the vanguard of research and building in intelligent cross-laminated timber, global multidisciplinary firm Arup knows wood.

The New Exhibitionists: museum architecture on show

Simon Keane-Cowell

18.11.2016

A raft of new, landmark museum projects internationally put themselves on show as much as the exhibits they house.

The Empire Strikes Back: Vienna Design Week

Simon Keane-Cowell

02.11.2016

It's ten years since Vienna Design Week was launched and the city-wide creative showcase shows no sign of losing its lustre.

Sharing is Caring: new co-working spaces

Simon Keane-Cowell

15.10.2016

With the co-working phenomenon globally showing no sign of abating, architecture and design has secured a valuable stake at the project table.

Biennale Interieur x Architonic: new online product ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

14.10.2016

A new partnership between Biennale Interieur Kortrijk and Architonic sees the launch of a dynamic, content-rich product catalogue on interieur.be.

Good Vibrations: new concert halls

Simon Keane-Cowell

16.09.2016

Live performance in the age of digital reproduction is far from dead, as a string of new commanding concert halls and music venues from around the world prove. Encore!

Poetic Shopping: Aesop designs the retail experience

Simon Keane-Cowell

30.08.2016

When it comes to creating unique, design-led retail experiences, skincare brand Aesop has it in the bag.

Coasting It: beach-house architecture

Simon Keane-Cowell

22.08.2016

When it comes to building types for aspirational living, nothing quite trumps the beach house. The architectural surf’s 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.

Selling Out: retail design on show

Simon Keane-Cowell

26.07.2016

Architonic speaks to Elke Moebius, Director of leading retail trade fair EUROSHOP, about the changing landscape of retail-design exhibition.

Curtain Up: Architonic’s new online shop software goes ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

31.05.2016

Designed specifically for textiles retailers and interior designers, the Architonic-developed Online Shop Module creates exciting new opportunities in e-commerce

Architonic Ceramics Special Cersaie 2015

Simon Keane-Cowell

15.10.2015

The leading international trade fair for ceramic tiles and bathroom furnishings, Cersaie, offers the perfect opportunity to cast an analytical eye over current trends in these two branches.

Architonic Top 10 Furniture Brands 2015

Simon Keane-Cowell

07.10.2015

Unveiled at this year's edition of the London Design Festival, our latest slice of Architonic Trend Analysis reveals the big hitters when it comes to furniture brands.

Gimme Shelter

Simon Keane-Cowell

26.09.2015

Conflict, natural disasters, endemic housing shortages. Architects and designers around the globe respond to humanitarian and social crises with a range of smart, prefabricated solutions.

The Right Stuff: Sylvain Willenz

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Simon Keane-Cowell

25.06.2015

His raft of enviable collaborations with the likes of Cappellini and Established & Sons, and, more recently, Retegui, Menu and Objekten, are testimony to the fact that Brussels-based designer Sylvain Willenz creates Things That People Actually

Architonic Top 10 North American Design Brands 2014-2015

Simon Keane-Cowell

05.05.2015

North America. It may be the new world to some but Architonic's latest installment in its ongoing Architonic Trend Analysis series – North American Design Brands 2014–2015 – reveals a ranking headed up by a number of manufacturers with

Architonic Top 10 Space Typologies 2014

Simon Keane-Cowell

26.04.2015

It might be the final frontier, but it's also close to our hearts. Space. On Architonic, we present a considered edit of the most notable reference projects out there, intelligently cross-linking these with products and profiles to give you the best

Noises Off

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Simon Keane-Cowell

14.04.2015

When young English aristocrat Lady Mary Isabel Portman commissioned an Arts-and-Crafts-style mountain hideaway near Garmisch-Partenkirchen on the eve of the First World War, little did she know that it would, a century later, become a one-off,

Architonic Top 10 Sanitary Brands 2014

Simon Keane-Cowell

13.04.2015

Which brands have cleaned up when it comes the most searched-for sanitary-ware manufacturers on architonic.com?

The Intelligence: Architonic’s Trend Analysis series

Simon Keane-Cowell

31.03.2015

It’s natural to compare. We all do it. Call it human nature. When such sizing-up is motivated by dissatisfaction or inadequacy, it’s probably not such a healthy activity. But if it’s underpinned by a desire to take stock, to see where you stand

In Rude Health: new wellness projects

Simon Keane-Cowell

25.02.2015

The word itself may have been coined relatively recently, but the ritual of 'wellness' – as a means of rejuvenating mind and body – has a long and healthy tradition. This hasn't, as a number of recent projects demonstrate, stopped a bevy of

Through Deidi's Eyes

Simon Keane-Cowell

21.05.2014

In this first installment of our new series featuring the work of renowned architectural photographer DEIDI VON SCHAEWEN, we take a look at a unique exhibition of Colombian architect and bamboo-master Simon Vélez's work, currently installed in the

Catch Her If You Can: Deidi von Schaewen

Simon Keane-Cowell

13.05.2014

Respected architectural photographer Deidi von Schaewen isn't one for letting the grass grow under her feet. Active since the 1960s and with no sign of hanging up her camera any time soon, Architonic caught up with the peripatetic image-maker to talk

Build Me Up: Architonic Concept Space V

Simon Keane-Cowell

22.04.2014

The latest fair-going union of architecture and innovative material-processing technology is unveiled in Milan in the form of Architonic’s Concept Space V.

Spaced: fair-stand architecture that stands out

Simon Keane-Cowell

22.04.2014

Gone are the days when a standard-issue ‘booth’ was enough of a platform on which design manufacturers could present their latest products at trade fairs. The contemporary exhibition stand is as much a brand-marketing device as it is a product

Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2014

Simon Keane-Cowell

10.02.2014

Architonic on the ground in the Swedish capital to bring you the best from the designer's design fair.

Go Your Own Way: Tobia Scarpa

Simon Keane-Cowell

09.02.2014

A chip of the old block Tobia Scarpa certainly isn’t. Son of acclaimed architectural maestro Carlo Scarpa, the innovative designer, who turns 80 next year, was determined from the outset to plough his own creative furrow, in spite of his

MAISON&OBJET PARIS 2014: January edition

Simon Keane-Cowell

29.01.2014

'April in Paris' goes the the old Broadway song. But for a number of years now, the smart crowd head to the French capital in January for the spring edition of the now firmly established MAISON&OBJET design fair.

IMM Cologne 2014: Architonic’s comprehensive photo tours

Simon Keane-Cowell

20.01.2014

No sooner has that Christmas tree been taken down then the spring season of the annual design calendar kicks off with that grandee of the international-trade-fair circuit, imm cologne. Your faithful scout Architonic presents, as ever, its detailed

To the Power of Two

Historia de la marca

Simon Keane-Cowell

27.11.2013

Collaboration isn't for everyone. If you're to make it work, it involves serious time and resources, not to mention a genuine willingness to go beyond your usual MO to achieve a creative result with added value. Celebrated Italian design brand

The Only Way is Up: Downtown Design Dubai 2013

Simon Keane-Cowell

12.11.2013

The first-ever design show in the Middle East to unite on a single platform some of the best global design brands with award-winning design from the region, Dubai's new Downtown Design fair, like the soaring Burj Khalifa, has its sights set high.

10 Years of Architonic: Part II

Simon Keane-Cowell

17.10.2013

More statements from some of our Architonic's most valued members, partners and friends during this, our tenth anniversary year. It's all about you, guys._

The Shapeshifter: material innovation FluidSolids

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Simon Keane-Cowell

16.10.2013

Nominated for this year's Design Prize Switzerland, Zurich-based designer Beat Karrer's material innovation FluidSolids, with its strong ecological credentials and impressive programmability, is poised to give traditional materials like metal and

Making/Do: designer-makers exhibit in London

Simon Keane-Cowell

09.10.2013

The annual London Design Festival, now with over 300 city-wide events, reflects the British capital's status as an international creative hub. But it also provides a platform for scores of indigenous designer-makers – both individuals and brands

Supersize Me: Materials Council's 'In the Scale of ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

26.09.2013

For a colourless, odourless gas, CO2 packs a punch. It now accounts for 76% of all greenhouse-gas emissions. So how do you communicate to a fair-going public the relative merits of different materials when it comes to carbon emissions? Materials

3 Generations in One Office: 'Büro. Raum. ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

04.09.2013

Major demographic shifts, including an ageing population and the increase in a younger workforce, present serious challenges for the office landscape. What do the different generations who come together to work want and need from their office

Bodies of Evidence: architecture, photography and real lives

Simon Keane-Cowell

29.08.2013

There's a long tradition of architectural photography presenting viewers with depopulated spaces – interior and exterior landscapes, devoid of the very users for which they have been designed. Celebrated Dutch photographer IWAN BAAN's unparalleled

Sleeping Around: contemporary hotel design checks in

Simon Keane-Cowell

09.07.2013

With an increase in international travel predicted for 2013, on the heels of a rebound for hoteliers last year, the hotel industry is looking more than ever for ways to make the visitor experience a memorable and profitable one. Enter striking

10 Years of Architonic: Part I

Simon Keane-Cowell

03.07.2013

Architonic isn't just a virtual showcase of products and materials. It's an international community, made up of real people. This year sees ten years of Architonic, so we asked some of our valued members, partners and friends to say a few words about

Materials Council: activity update

Simon Keane-Cowell

19.06.2013

Materials Council has been busy. Founded in partnership with Architonic in 2012, the leading London-based consultancy has proved in a mere nine months its expertise and relevance to architects, manufacturers and business, providing indispensable

The Heat is On: Latin American Design hits New York

Simon Keane-Cowell

08.06.2013

As the world's busiest revolving door, New York is no stranger to new cultural sights and influences. This year's New York Design Week saw a raft of Latin American designers and design collectives exhibit their highly polished and conceptually

Sounding Out: room acoustics make themselves heard

Simon Keane-Cowell

28.05.2013

When was the last time a building won an award for the way it sounds? Architecture, and by extension society, has long privileged the visual over the aural. Yet a number of architects are starting to think and design in a more complete sensory way,

Only Connect: Belgrade Design Week 2013

Simon Keane-Cowell

10.05.2013

In eight short years, Belgrade Design Week has put the Serbian capital on the creative map, playing annual host to an unmissable pow-wow of the finest creative minds around.

Go West: Architonic strengthens its presence in North ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

07.05.2013

With an expanded North American sales team, a bigger presence at this year's ICFF in New York, and two brand-new apps – 'Best American Design Brands' and 'Best Canadian Design Brands' – Architonic has gone all transatlantic.

Lux Redux: Euroluce 2013 – Part II

Simon Keane-Cowell

23.04.2013

Need more light in your life? The second part of Architonic's survey of high-end lighting design from this year's Euroluce fair in Milan should provide the illumination you're looking for.

Lux Redux: Euroluce 2013 – Part I

Simon Keane-Cowell

23.04.2013

We may live in somewhat gloomy times, but this year’s confident edition of Euroluce – the biennial international lighting showcase at the Milan Salone del Mobile – shone brighter than an old-fashioned 100-Watt light bulb.

Milan 2013: The Ultimate Photo Tours

Simon Keane-Cowell

17.04.2013

No one provides you with as an exhaustive and detailed photographic coverage of the annual Milan Furniture Fair as Architonic. On this we pride ourselves. If you weren't able to make it to the 2013 edition of the mother of all design trade fairs,

Milan 2013: Design Hones its Craft at Brera Design District

Simon Keane-Cowell

26.03.2013

Looking, now more than ever, for ways of adding value to its products, there’s a renaissance of craft-based thinking within design manufacturing taking place. Where better to see this trend presented and discussed than in Milan’s leading design

Easily LED: the charms (and challenges) of a developing ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

20.03.2013

Many hands make light work, goes the old saying. Many new LED producers also make the creative possibilities of working with such a fast-changing technology exciting, thanks to the proliferation of products they bring to the market. But, for lighting

The Gold Standard: iF International Forum Design celebrates ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

12.03.2013

Three score old and in rude health: the iF design gold awards, handed out to a painstakingly selected, international cohort of companies at the recent Munich Creative Business Week for their outstanding products, is looking to the future.

Taking the Waters: born-again spa and wellness architecture

Simon Keane-Cowell

05.03.2013

The spring of architectural creativity is in full flow, with a number of offices internationally adding value to the age-old practice of therapeutic bathing. Here's our selection of the best of the latest spa and wellness architecture. Go ahead. The

Non Plus Ultra: the Interior Innovation Award 2013's ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

27.02.2013

The biggest, the fastest, the smartest. When it comes to marketing-speak, there's nothing like a superlative to liven things up. Best of Best – the annual exhibition held at imm cologne of the category winners from the Interior Innovation Award

Size Doesn’t Matter: contemporary Nordic architects who ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

12.02.2013

Head north and you'll find a thriving design culture where the level of consideration given to the way things look, feel and work isn't determined by their scale. Be they housing projects, chairs or taps, the Scandinavian approach to design continues

Systematic: furniture that grows on you

Simon Keane-Cowell

08.02.2013

System furniture did what it's wont to do at this year's imm cologne: expand. A number of new and innovative furniture programmes, modular in nature, were shown alongside augmented and reworked old favourites. It's all about joined-up thinking.

Looming Large: innovation in new textile design

Simon Keane-Cowell

29.01.2013

If you think textile design is, well, a little two-dimensional, think again. Contemporary producers of high-quality woven materials for interiors are busy exploring all sorts of innovative directions in terms of materials, processes and applications.

Coming Up: [D3] Design Talents at imm cologne is 10

Simon Keane-Cowell

20.12.2012

More than 500 young and emerging designers have taken to the [D3] Design Talents stage at the Cologne Furniture Fair over the past ten years, presenting their ideas in prototype form to both an industry and a general audience. Architonic takes a look

Same but Different: classic design and the design of change

Simon Keane-Cowell

12.12.2012

Everything changes, so they say. But should it? What about decades-old, often iconic designs? Should they be preserved, as it were, their contemporary production remaining ‘true’ in every respect to the ‘original’? Or ought manufacturers be

Selling Spaces: new directions in retail design

Simon Keane-Cowell

12.12.2012

In spite of the rise of e-commerce, the physical point of sale is still with us. That said, the traditional store is having to up its game in terms of the experience and brand relevance it offers consumers – not only to compete with online shopping

Clear Vision: Zumtobel sheds light on the OperAlp/SALEWA ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

12.11.2012

More often than not, office architecture can be, well, a little inward-looking. Shut out the outside world and focus staffers' attention on their building's interior spaces and you'll keep them focused on their work. Right? Wrong. The OperAlp/SALEWA

Soul Man: Ask Emil Skovgaard

Simon Keane-Cowell

26.10.2012

If the Slow Design movement were looking for a poster boy, Ask Emil Skovgaard would undoubtedly be on the shortlist. Treading a fine and virtuosic line between design, craft and art, the Copenhagen-based creative’s work is, among other things, an

At Your Convenience: contemporary public-toilet architecture

Simon Keane-Cowell

25.10.2012

We'd like to talk to you about a delicate matter. The toilet. The WC. The lavatory. However you choose to refer to it, we all require regular access to this most prosaic of environments. Which is why it's refreshing to see a number of recent public

Going Underground: Zumtobel sheds light on the Städel ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

23.10.2012

Lighting always has to work harder when it's deployed in underground spaces. But when the space in question is a museum one, where the considered illumination of its exhibits is key – not to mention their protection against the potentially damaging

Still Waters: Laufen's newly extended Palomba range ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

22.10.2012

When it came to launching their latest family of products, high-end Swiss bathroom manufacturer decided to buck the trend for the ultra-rational and focus on building on the softer, timeless design language of its earlier Palomba collection. The

Whiter Shade of Pale: Materials Council's 'Whiter ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

28.09.2012

White. But not as you know it. Newly launched creative materials consultancy Materials Council's inaugural show at this year's Super Brands London neatly demonstrated that there's more than meets the eye when it comes to that most pure of colours.

Internal Culture: design history revisited at London design ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

27.09.2012

While the London Design Festival's big-top design destinations, such as Super Brands London, Tent, designjunction and 100% Design pulled large crowds, a number of design brands used their city showrooms as spaces for serving up fascinating slices of

So PoMo! – 'Postmodernism: Style and Subversion ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

23.09.2011

It's forty years since the love-it-or-hate-it, style-driven phenomenon that was postmodernism first emerged in architectural practice, soon manifesting itself in design, art, fashion and music. The V&A's major new show, 'Postmodernism: Style and

Kindergarten Design Grows Up: contemporary nursery-school ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

01.09.2011

A number of recently completed kindergarten projects have proved that designing user-centred environments for the more diminutive among us shouldn't be at odds with creating highly expressive structures. Architonic takes a look at a selection of

High Performance Spaces: concert halls and opera houses that ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

29.08.2011

If music be the food of love, then where better to dine out than a world-class concert hall or opera house? Here, Architonic examines a number of recently completed architectural projects that perform as hard as the artists who take to their stages.

How Many Designers Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb?: ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

20.08.2011

When young British designer Samuel Wilkinson set out to redesign the standard low-energy light bulb, with the aim of making it work just as hard aesthetically as it does environmentally, he was in for a long trek. Journeying beyond the safe and

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