Our review of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia: Where is the journey taking us? About the paradigm shift in architecture.

Carlo 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.

Visitors 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.

The 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.

Light 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.

Robert 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.

The 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.

Helena Fricke and Sophie Kling have developed a water treatment system for the bathroom at home. Their graduation project at HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd should be of lasting benefit and not remain a distant dream of the future.

Lukas Heintschel designs furniture that combines conceptual approaches with practical development anchored in industrial design. Despite their high functional requirements, they should be pleasant and fun to use. In this interview, he gives us an insight into his approach.

With Office of Tangible Space, Michael Yarinsky and Kelley Perumbeti design on a wide variety of scales and project types. A portrait of the interdisciplinary studio from Brooklyn.

Changing the way we understand, perceive and relate to materials: That’s the aim of Bonnie Hvillum, who’s focus is on human interaction with the world. The interdisciplinary projects she tackles straddle science, biology, chemistry, design and art.

When Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, supposedly ordered a yacht that runs on hydrogen, the excitement in 2020 was huge. It seemed that the technology had made it out of its niche after failed experiments as a form of propulsion for cars. The topic became virulent again after Russia's attack on Ukraine. What is the state of the debate?

Ever since 2018, with their design studio “anima ona” Freia Achenbach and June Fàbregas have focused on further developing previously untapped resources such as construction waste. The latter, if processed into geopolymers, offers a sustainable alternative to concrete. In the following interview they tell us more about their research.

Gary Bencheghib is a filmmaker and environmental activist. Together with his siblings, he founded the organisation Sungai Watch, which stands up against the massive environmental pollution in Indonesia. In parallel, he is looking for ways to recycle the plastic waste – like with Sungai Design and a Tiny House.

One man's trash, another man's treasure: Studio ThusThat recycles residual materials from the metal industry for their designs. Red mud and copper slag are turned into extraordinary creations that raise our awareness of sustainable reuse.

Architect Susanne Brorson lives and works on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen. In the interview, she tells us how she researches traditional building methods and experiments with renewable raw materials in order to establish local and sustainable architecture.

In our series "Spotlight on Women Architects", we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Jeanne Gang. A skyscraper that set the record for the ‘tallest building designed by a woman’ certainly helped her. More important, however, is the stylistic breadth and self-assurance in her designs.

In our series “Spotlight: Architects” we regularly present the work of architects – for example, the projects by Kim Le Roux and Margit Sichrovsky, who integrate circular planning and building into their work.

Sitting outside ­– a delight for which Pedrali offers the ideal furnishings: Thanks to the elegant designs and a wide range of colours, the outdoor space becomes the centre of life. A look at the projects for hotels, restaurants and private homes shows just how diverse this can be.

Limited to 79 units, Studio ÖÖD's ‘Golden Houses’ offer five-star comfort in the heart of nature – thanks in part to the high-quality AXOR products for bathrooms and kitchens, which perfectly complement the project with their wide variety.

With projects ranging from clubs to cultural buildings to industrial facilities, Johan Olsson and Andreas Lyckefors show how architecture can create spaces that are both precise and poetic. A conversation about responsibility, materiality and the power of context.

How can cities be designed for the future? Interview: Dr.-Ing. Steffen Braun, Deputy Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO and co-founder of the Fraunhofer Morgenstadt initiative.