Architect Walter Segal developed a system that enabled you to design your own home and indeed even build it yourself. The result was two neighborhoods in south London that precisely in an age of housing shortages certainly bear revisiting.

Take a Swedish hotel group, a Swedish architect and a location in Denmark’s design capital of Copenhagen – and you get a Hyggetempel.

The “Together!” exhibition at Vitra Design Museum campaigns for a common space with successful examples of a new architecture of community.

Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten have won the competition for the new “Hochhaus am Europaplatz" (High-Rise on Europaplatz) in Berlin. Their proposal centers on an ingenious and yet seemingly straightforward façade consisting of glass and ceramic rods.

Everybody is talking about sustainable production. Camira has been practicing it for years. The British textile manufacturer makes fabrics from stinging nettles, hemp and jute and is a great champion of recycling.

In the form of “Noma” in Copenhagen, entrepreneur Thorsten Schmidt and star chef René Redzepi revolutionized cutting-edge restauranteering. And now they’ve teamed up with Norway’s highly successful Snøhetta architects for the next project, the “Barr”.

He forever stood in the shadow of his predecessor Walter Gropius and his successor Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Now two key buildings by Hannes Meyer have become part of the World Cultural Heritage. “At long last!”, declares Philipp Oswalt.

Design from Poland? Is not known by everyone. But it's absolutely worthwhile to look at the hustle and bustle of the local scene. So follow us on our tour to Gdynia, Gdansk and Warsaw to the hotspots and interesting heads of the Polish design.

In retrospect everything looks clearer. A column by Michael Erlhoff.

The Qvest boutique hotel combined for a photoshooting neo-Gothic architecture with Richard Neutra products from VS Möbel.

The Galerie Kreo in London is showing a selection of works by Hella Jongerius – colorful – in the truest sense of the word.

This encyclopedia of forgotten sports brings together any number of bizarre and quite horrific pursuits. Anyone who has read the book will view people and sports in a different light.

Whether it’s for premium loudspeakers, SUVs or classic sneakers – the fabrics from Danish textile label Kvadrat are ever more frequently a sales argument for luxury products.

Designer Simon Husslein and entrepreneur Pierre Nobs want to stir things up on the watch market with their newly founded company “Bólido”.

Its superb acoustics make the Roman amphitheater in Verona an ideal venue for operas and concerts. Were it not for the rain. Schlaich Bergermann Partner together with GMP Architekten have now devised an extremely smart and mobile roof structure to keep out bad weather.

The Westin Hotel in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie is pitch-perfect with Villeroy & Boch products.

Alfred Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson are celebrated as “pioneers of the Bauhaus” at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld.

The patio of a purist villa morphs on request into a world of a cool pool – thanks also to Mosa tiles.

DIY superstores, furniture stores, fast-food restaurants. In commercial zones, the horrendous lurks. Can things be done differently? Here are five current examples.

When all the traditional criteria are evoked. A column by Michael Erlhoff.

Architect and designer Jean-Philippe Nuel lends the “Les Cures Marines” hotel a touch of striking elegance with furniture by Ligne Roset.

Architect Rafael de Cárdenas and architecture duo Neri&Hu have developed spatial concepts for Dornbracht in which the latter’s new range of faucets, which goes by the name of “Vaia”, has its own special role to play.

He was fascinated by the material and never lost his delight in experimentation: On Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Le Stanze del Vetro are presenting sensational glass works by Ettore Sottsass.

It took an architect from Burkina Faso such as Francis Kéré to create a Serpentine Pavilion that celebrates the infamous English weather in all its glory. This year’s pavilion looks set to be a great success.

Residential house at the Starnberger See: Impressive views with the sliding window cero.

Are bathrooms becoming ever more colorful? And what prompted Bette to launch a bathtub clad in fabric? Martina Metzner talked with Managing Director Thilo Pahl and Head of Marketing Sven Rensinghoff.

What will be the house technology of the future can be experienced im "Energy Campus" by HHS Planer + Architekten for Stiebel Eltron.

What does Documenta 14 say about the current state of the world? What role do the curators play, and what role the artists? A commentary.

Schindler has outfitted the new "Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC)" building in Melbourne with an custom elevator system.

MDT-tex has teamed up with Grimshaw Architects to develop a highly flexible canopy system.

Steve Leung has decorated the products "Octagon" and "Squaro Prestige" by Villeroy & Boch with thousands of Swarovski crystals. The Chinese designer explains how he came up with the idea and how bathroom culture differs from Asia to Europe.

The new "Bonechina" bar in Frankfurt relies on a shiny black drinking culture.

On an idyllic peninsula near Kassel 20 houses are set to provide new ideas for contemporary country living. And 20 international architects have now presented their ideas, a few developers are still to be found.

Around four hours’ drive north of Santiago de Chile, Cristián Izquierdo has erected an extremely unusual holiday home.

We follow Thomas Wagner over stairs, through Kleingartenanlagen and finally over the water on his foray in Münster on the occasion of the Skulptur Projekte.