REVIEW – BIENNALE ARCHITETTURA 2025 Laboratory for ideas5/12/2025Our review of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia: Where is the journey taking us? About the paradigm shift in architecture.
PREVIEW – BIENNALE ARCHITETTURA 2025 A Call to Action5/5/2025Carlo Ratti is the curator of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. The architect from Turin has given the international exhibition in the lagoon city the theme and title ‘Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.’ and attracted over 750 participants for the show. In this interview, he tells us what guests can expect.
PREVIEW – BIENNALE ARCHITETTURA 2025 Lab for the city2/24/2025Visitors to the Biennale Architettura 2025 can experience the high necessity of climate-adapted urban planning at first hand in the German Pavilion. The International Architecture Exhibition as a whole is intended to serve as a dynamic laboratory that enables disciplines to work together to make cities more resilient, healthier and more liveable.
INTERVIEWS Balancing the moment5/8/2025Robert Wilson is an icon of theater directing and has created unique scenes using light. We met him in Milan to talk about his installation “Mother” and constructs, built from time and space.
REVIEW – SALONE DEL MOBILE & MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2025 New networks4/15/2025The Salone del Mobile.Milano and the Milan Design Week took place from 8 to 13 April 2025. In the review, you can find out which ideas are currently moving the creative minds and which concepts were particularly impressive.
REVIEW – EUROLUCE & MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2025 Tales of light from Milan4/14/2025Light has a system – and something to tell. A best-of of the new luminaires from Milan, from the Euroluce Biennale and the exhibitions in the city, with archaic materials and capricious personalities.
AWARD NOMINATION One and many4/22/2025Yusuke Kawai has designed the ‘Kawara’ lighting collection made of extruded aluminium for Pedrali. In this interview, he tells us what traditional roof tiles have in common with his collection and why he appreciates the experiment.
PREVIEW – SALONE DEL MOBILE 2025 Compass for the mind4/3/2025The kinetic installation ‘Library of Light’ by Es Devlin is a Salone project with the Pinacoteca di Brera and the publishing house Feltrinelli: a rotating sculpture consisting of illuminated shelves containing over 2,000 books. The scenery is accompanied by the writings of pioneering academics and classical music. The artist and set designer gives us an insight into her work.
INTERVIEWS Strong presence4/7/2025The internationally renowned fashion designer Jil Sander has reinterpreted Marcel Breuer's ‘S 64’ cantilever chair for Thonet. ‘Serious’ and “Nordic” are the names of the design lines with which she has given the tubular steel classic from the 1920s a new sensuality. In this interview, she tells us what was important in the process.
PREVIEW – SALONE DEL MOBILE & MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2025 Andiamo!4/3/2025In parallel to the manufacturers' presentations, Milan will be hosting a large number of exhibitions and events over the coming week, both at the exhibition centre and in the city. We have created a personal selection for you and hope you enjoy discovering them.
FEATURED PREVIEW – MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2025 The sculptural minimalist4/3/2025During the Milan Design Week, COR is presenting ‘Kagu’, a chair with a very balanced design. Designed by Jehs+Laub, the Stuttgart-based design studio combines a cleverly constructed wooden frame with an upholstered seat shell whose movable backrest offers a high level of comfort.
YOUNG TALENTS Surprisingly different10/8/2024Oscar Parkinson recently completed his degree in Product and Furniture Design at Kingston University in London and already has some exciting prototypes to show for it. In this interview he gives us an insight into his practice.
YOUNG TALENTS No limits4/20/2023Hong Kong and Istanbul, technology and design: Studio Yellowdot’s projects frequently blend opposites – with quite exceptional results.
YOUNG TALENTS Tradition from the 3D printer6/13/2023Honoka Lab, a design collective from Japan, was honoured with first place at this year's SaloneSatellite Award. For their Tatami ReFAB Project, they use 3D printing technology and recycled materials to bring a centuries-old tradition into the modern age: discarded tatami mats serve as the base material for furniture.
INTERVIEWS Precision work7/8/2020The works by Guglielmo Poletti strike a balance between aesthetics and construction. In the interview the designer explains how he treads the fine line and giving us insights about the new table collection "L45" born from his ongoing collaboration with Desalto.
INTERVIEWS A house for 100 years4/28/2025B.A.S. Architekten work at the intersection of architecture and urban planning. A core theme of their projects is the renovation of historic buildings. In this interview, Dorothee Stürmer and Peter Begon explain what is important in this context and why the journey is the destination when it comes to transforming buildings and their surroundings.
YOUNG TALENTS Freshly unsealed12/11/2024The semester project “now_unsealed” by students of the Integrative Design course at the Offenbach University of Art and Design addresses urgent environmental issues such as climate change, resource consumption and soil sealing. We present a selection of the projects.
SUSTAINABILITY Radical Recycling5/23/2024Marcel Raymaekers is an uncompromising pioneer of circular architecture in Europe. His opulent work was for a long time overlooked – until the Rotor collective began to document the unconventional approach.
INTERVIEWS The Power of Water4/5/2024Hamburg’s Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe recently opened a show entitled “Water Pressure – Designing for the Future”. Curator Jane Withers tells us in this interview how the exhibition wants to change our awareness of water as a resource.
ARCHITECTURE Spotlight on Women Architects – Anne Hangebruch4/29/2025In our series "Spotlight on Women Architects", we regularly present the work of female architects – like those of Anne Hangebruch, who believes in continuous exchange and mutual inspiration between practice, teaching, and research.
ARCHITECTURE Spotlight on Women Architects – Carme Pinós3/24/2025In our series "Spotlight on Women Architects", we regularly present the work of female architects – such as Carme Pinós, who seeks a very individual expression with her buildings and furniture designs.
SPOTLIGHT ON WOMEN ARCHITECTS Spotlight on Women Architects – Odile Decq4/30/2024In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Odile Decq, who seeks with her work to find an individual and holistic form of architecture.
ARCHITECTURE Spotlight on Women Architects – Mariam Issoufou1/25/2024In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – like that of Mariam Issoufou, whose work is drawing attention to African architecture.
FEATURED Systematic change5/14/2025How much design power can a floor have? Carpet tiles from modulyss show how flexible, functional and atmospheric rooms can be – if you think about them from the ground up.
AWARD NOMINATION A fresh perspective5/9/2025Zaven Design created the "Koala" seating furniture for S-CAB, two variations on a basic idea that gently envelop the body and offer maximum comfort. Enrica Cavarzan and Marco Zavagno tell us why they value contrast in their work.
FAIRS & EVENTS Impetus for tomorrow5/8/2025The Museum Angewandte Kunst recently opened two exhibitions: ‘What was the New Frankfurt? Key questions about the urban planning programme of the 1920s’ and ’Yes, we care. The New Frankfurt and the question of the common good’.
ART ‘Photography works like a window into our memory’3/25/2025Aitor Ortiz is dedicated to the built world. His photography deals with architecture in the broadest sense: He is interested in details, structures, materials and angles. You will search in vain for the dissolving long shot in his pictures. In this interview, he tells us why this is the case.