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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.

“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.

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

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.

See our first selection of novelties from this year´s Salone del Mobile. More will follow.

Report from the Salone Internazionale del Mobile fair and the Milan Design Week

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.

Architonic Series 'Investment Stimulus for Public Projects', Article 1

Whereas on previous occasions Milan always proved to be a festival of temporary architecture, this year we had to look hard for innovative concepts.

“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.”

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.

The object of this year’s contest, aimed at students and young design professionals, is the design of a parasol, pergola or pergola system.

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.

The program: a house. Our concept: universal need for shelter. Solution: a void.

Mike Meiré presents Dornbrachts novelties at this year´s ISH

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.

Produkte, die Geschichte schrieben (Products which have made history)

Granted aesthetic planning permission in Amsterdam North, The Matchbox is a blend of artistic, creative and commercial spaces tailored to suit this artistic quarter.

Kevin Fries and Jakob Zumbühl are the proud winners of three 'iF product design awards' and 'reddot design awards'

Video-interviews from the world’s leading trade fair for bathroom- , building-, energy-, air-conditioning Technology and Renewable Energies

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.

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.

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.

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

«My five favourite things at the Stockholm Furniture Fair» - selected by Fredrik Färg

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.

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.

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,

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

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.

Some parting thoughts about Maine, and the road trip to come

Scandinavia's largest public library will be realized on the waterfront of Aarhus in western Denmark

Starting with the concept of 'individual design for living', what forms, themes and tendencies determine the parameters for today's housing design?

How can you translate literature into architecture – and how is architecture manifested in literature?

Selected novelties from the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2009, Part II

It looks like open space, but behind movable walls, this tiny apartment holds surprises.

"It should be possible not just to hear the music but also to see it." - Ben van Berkel

«My five favourite things at the Stockholm Furniture Fair» - selected by Thomas Bernstand

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.

Die Bauwerke und Kunstdenkmäler von Berlin (Berlin's architectural works and artistic monuments)

On 16 February 2009 the "Mondays with Papst" exhibition opened in the old boiler house on the Wilkhahn site in Bad Münder.

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.

All design students or designers can take part of this edition, without age limitation.

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.

This is an exciting and stimulating book which is both an enjoyable read and a detailed and accurate work of reference!

The Royal Institute of British Architects and Cassina present the exhibition "Le Corbusier’s Cabanon".

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.

When the times are uncertain the simplicity provided by black and white categories acts like a lifeline in a sea of randomness.

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.

The Berlin material supplier for architects and designers opens a creative store in Moritzplatz, Kreuzberg

Selected novelties from the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2009, Part I

Dreipunkt has launched its new brand store in the Kranhaus Mitte planned by Bothe Richter Teherani in Cologne.

On the occasion of the home textiles (Heimtextil) fair in Frankfurt, the Langenthal textile company Création Baumann was awarded the AIT Innovation Prize for textiles for its new »Silver&Steel« collection, which was described as a product of

Leading independent brassware designer, Triflow, has commissioned pre-eminent architect, Zaha Hadid, to explore the capabilities of brassware technology in designing the tap of the future.

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.

The world of Madelon Vriesendorp in the Swiss Architecture Museum

The latest volume in the prestigious 'Edition Detail' is, as the title suggests, devoted to materials for the interior.

At this year's imm cologne Degenhardt presented 'Landed', the prototype of a prefabricated house, in cooperation with Richard Lampert.

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.

An interview with the ambitious and talented german designer Sebastian Herkner.

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.

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?.

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.

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'.

The new Architonic Guide Box, created by Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design

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.

A daily vote on modern home furnishings and furniture, lighting and storage

Europe remains the theme. Kem Koolhaas has recently presented a complex master plan for a European energy park in the North Sea.

Häuser shows an exclusive photo report on the villa in Pittsburgh

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.

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.

Thonet furnishes the meeting and conference rooms at the Media Plaza of the 'Jaarbeurs' in Utrecht

Carpenters Workshop Gallery presents Sebastian Brajkovic's furniture series 'Lathe'.

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?.

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.

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.

creates Design Bar for Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair

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.

This year's "Architecture and Office XXL" innovation prize has been won by the firm of REC Bauelemente GmbH.

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.

Exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim / Berlin until 1.2.2009

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.

Bisazza opens its first flagship store in Antwerp on 4 December

The »Possible Furniture« series plays with the perception of balance/unbalance and thereby questions the designer’s role.

Lesslamp is considered more a happening than a light: The user must release the light drilling or breaking the ceramic piece with a pickaxe.

'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,

Designed by Gramazio & Kohler, on view for the first time at the imm cologne 2009

An interview with Oskar Zieta, architect at the CAAD-professorship at ETH Zurich

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.

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

David Moser is product development manager of Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers

Two designers, one house renovation and twelve furniture designs

This newly completed sports and leisure complex has a distinctive, sculptural quality, further enhanced by the building’s essential transparency.

The introductory photo of this book says it all: two gentlemen are sitting, or rather lounging, in elegant armchairs, each with a glass of white wine in his hand, the bottle within easy reach in a wine cooler, and are chatting in an obviously good

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

Are we on the threshold of a change of direction in the design field?

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.

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.

B9 Architects design sustainable multi-family project with ArchiCAD

Jørn Utzon, one of the greatest architects of the past century, died last Saturday, 29.11.2008.

Stuart Kestenbaum is director of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

The annual event presents both well-established and young labels

Fresh Water Thanks to «No Man’s Land» for the Dead Sea Region

Industrially prefabricated and modular dwellings have long since established themselves, in the USA, in particular.

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.

There are now a number of companies on the market which specialise in the development of micro wind turbines that enable individual power generation.

The Swiss designer Beat Karrer researches new processing methods of bio-degradable plastics

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

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

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

In 2015 the world's first carbon neutral city will be ready for occupation near Abu Dhabi. The main role here will be played by pedestrians.

The new land port of entry in Calais, Maine, is designed by Robert Siegel Architects

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.

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

The world's first ecological disco opens in Rotterdam, Holland

Students from the University of Utah planning for and with families who live below the poverty line

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

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.

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.