Architecture The end of the school corridor by Fabian Peters | 10/14/2017 NL Architects have designed a kindergarten and primary school complex in Knokke in Belgium that certainly stands the usual school hierarchy on its head.
Architecture Embrace it! by Fabian Peters | 10/13/2017 Architect Bruno Dias has created a remarkable courtyard in the small Portuguese town of Ansião, effortlessly combining intimacy and stringency.
Architecture The jewel in the crown of Lego City by Fabian Peters | 10/7/2017 I was made for buildin’ you baby... The architects at BIG have found their ideal construction task: a giant Lego house.
Architecture Hyperspace by Fabian Peters | 9/15/2017 The Heatherwick Studio has carved out the inside of an old grain silo to create an Expressionist sculpture that doubles up as the new “Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa” in Cape Town.
Architecture Fulfilling emptiness by Florian Heilmeyer | 9/3/2017 When in 1986 the two art collectors were looking for an architect to build them a holiday home on Mallorca, they happened to meet a young unknown architect from England: John Pawson. He did not design a house for their plot but a large castle – that can be rented today.
Architecture OMA, strictly scientific by Fabian Peters | 9/2/2017 The architects at OMA have for the first time designed a university building: "Lab City" for the elite Parisian college CentraleSupélec.
Ausstellung Get on your UFO! by Adeline Seidel | 8/29/2017 The built future optimism of the 1970s can currently be viewed at the “Utopie Plastic” exhibition in Friche de l’Escalette near Marseille.
Magazine Goodbye, Streets in the Sky! by George Kafka | 8/25/2017 The bulldozer has rolled in. The demolition of Robin Hood Gardens has started. An obit. In praise of the best concrete in East London.
Architecture Stepping into history by Fabian Peters | 8/25/2017 On Römerberg, in the middle of Frankfurt’s Old City, Meixner Schlüter Wendt have created an archetypical building of glass that appears to be suspended in space.
Opinion The city gains big-time with this building by Peter Cachola Schmal | 8/24/2017 The new Historisches Museum Frankfurt building designed by Lederer Ragnarsdottir Oei has divided the architectural community. Peter Cachola Schmal, Director of Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt explains why it is successful.
Architecture Minimal intervention by Fabian Peters | 8/21/2017 North Italian architects Bergmeister Wolf have extended a house on Lake Garda with a simple and yet spectacular annex.
Architecture For the young generation by Fabian Peters | 8/19/2017 Matter Design and FR|SCH have designed a sophisticated architectural play structure for a place with special architectural significance.
Architecture Appropriating space by Thomas Wagner | 8/18/2017 For their cultural project "Allmeinde Commengrounds" Katia und Gerold Schneider rebuild an old stable building. There they show currently the subtle photographs taken by Walter Niedermayr.
Ausstellung German contribution to the 16th International Architecture Exhibition announced 8/16/2017 The curators for the German contribution of "Unbuilding Walls" at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice have been announced: Graft Architects and Marianne Birthler.
Architecture The first time by Anna Moldenhauer | 8/15/2017 Note Design Studio presents its first Building: the “Villa Esker”.
Architecture Open plan housing by Fabian Peters | 8/7/2017 Architecture bureau Studiolada from France has put the complete plans for a low-cost detached home online as open source architecture.
Architecture The perfect house by Florian Heilmeyer | 8/1/2017 In 1984, Australian architect and Pritzker Prize winner Glenn Murcutt designed a simple house for the Magney family in New South Wales, Australia. 33 years later it has become an architectural icon.
Architecture So what is that raising its head? by Adeline Seidel | 7/28/2017 A good dozen high-rises are set to be built in Frankfurt/Main over the next five years. An overview of the high-rise architecture of tomorrow: some of it exciting or strident, some less so.
Architecture Standing on top of Brutalism by Fabian Peters | 7/26/2017 Architects Mateo Riestra, José Arnaud Bello and Max von Werz have converted a former Brutalist record store in Mexico City into an art gallery.
Architecture SUV-like on the outside, cathedral-like on the inside by Adeline Seidel | 7/20/2017 It’s easy to fall into the trap of only judging a building by its façade. Especially if it is as eye-catching as "Silo" in Copenhagen, designed by Cobe Architects.
Interior Design When design becomes a market advantage by Fabian Peters | 10/16/2017 The small French hotel chain Okko seeks to win out in the tight market for four-star city hotels – thanks to its design concept. Patrick Norguet designed the latest hotel, in Strasbourg.
Interior Design An office for now and then by Anna Moldenhauer | 9/26/2017 The architecture studio “Von M” has transformed a spacious apartment in Munich’s Glockenbach district into an open-plan studio.
Interior Design And now and then a pull-up by Adeline Seidel | 9/23/2017 The architects at Autori have created an interior design for the new office of a Serbian gaming firm that truly facilitates multi-tasking.
Interior Design When the coworking space grows up by Anna Moldenhauer | 9/20/2017 With their “New Work Project,” the interior design studio The New Design Object has created an elegant co-working space in New York City.
Interior Design The best from the North by Fabian Peters | 8/31/2017 In Copenhagen’s North Harbor a new lease of life has been found for a former coal crane – in the form of a hideaway that doubles up as a show of Danish design prowess.
Interior Design Classical Japan in Baden-Württemberg by Anna Moldenhauer | 8/23/2017 For the Stuttgart Restaurant “Enso Sushi und Grill” DIA – Dittel Architekten serve up Japanese restraint coupled with European seating.
Interior Design Wine step by step by Adeline Seidel | 8/14/2017 At Enoteca Dai Tosi Belgian architects De Vylder Vinck Taillieu have assembled everything that makes the city of Matera what it is – cavernous rooms, tuff and masses of steps.
Interior Design Swedish steel by Fabian Peters | 8/10/2017 Swedish fashion label Acne Studios has in the last two years given its new stores a signature look in stainless steel. The store that just opened in Milan is a bit of an exception.
Interior Design Super-Minimal by Adeline Seidel | 8/9/2017 A happy family life but less than 50 square meters of space? It’s possible, as Polish architects MUS show with their conversion of an apartment in Cracow.
Interview In future you pay at the central table by Robert Volhard und Fabian Peters | 10/12/2017 Vizona is back! Matthias Hummel was appointed the new CEO of the shop-fitting expert in July 2017. Robert Volhard and Fabian Peters spoke with him about the company.
Design What are they doing in there? by Thomas Wagner | 9/14/2017 Ettore Sottsass would have turned 100 years old today. We still know far too little about the designer and architect who looked beyond the walls of the familiar.
IAA 2017 Which forms of settlement have which mobility needs? by Thomas Wagner | 9/11/2017 Do we need more sweeping changes to the interplay between building and mobility? Christian Gärtner from Urban Standards about the steps needed for a new mobility policy.
Interview Freedom drives us on to greater things by Carlo Urbinati | 9/8/2017 Daniel von Bernstorff and Robert Volhard spoke to Carlo Urbinati, founder and managing director of Italian luminaire maker Foscarini: about emotions, freedom, inspiration, and the creative world behind the products.
Interior Design Experts for recommencements by Fabian Peters | 8/2/2017 The store furnishings of Berlin-based architecture studio Gonzalez Haase break with conventions. This is demonstrated by a pop-up store for Birkenstock and is the talk of the town – even in Parisian haute couture circles.
Special: My Modern Holidays Reinventing the House by Florian Heilmeyer | 7/21/2017 On the edge of a national park near Barcelona project developer and gallery owner Christian Bourdais has teamed up with 15 architects to build 15 holiday homes that he believes will revolutionize residential living. Florian Heilmeyer met him and asked how this is going to evolve.
Interview Walter's Way by Adeline Seidel | 7/18/2017 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.
Design It’s back! by Adeline Seidel | 10/15/2017 Feria Habitat Valencia is back – thankfully. We cast a glance at the novelties from the South.
Design Making life easier for digital nomads by Fabian Peters | 10/11/2017 They do exist – items for life with a smartphone and a laptop that are as carefully considered as they are well designed. Users need look no further than the label Nolii, founded by British designer Benjamin Hubert.
Stylepark x Vienna Design Week Zizi and her feathers by Thomas Wagner | 10/10/2017 Arts and crafts have always got on fabulously in Vienna. The “Vienna Design Week” takes up the thread and skillfully explores all the different things that pop up under an expanded design concept.
Design Looking for a new kitchen? by Jasmin Jouhar | 10/8/2017 MyKilos, a Berlin-based label and the brainchild of Daniel Klapsing and Philipp Schöpfer, not only designs fabulous products for the living room, but has now brought out some game-changing kitchens.
Design The chair of nations by Anna Moldenhauer | 10/6/2017 It is not only the architecture of the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris that is iconic, but also its interior. Pride of place there goes to Eero Saarinen’s “Conference Chair”, which is now set to furnish the building in a new version.
Design Ala Kazam! by Thomas Wagner | 10/5/2017 Material and magic: Vitra Design Museum in Weil is celebrating the outstanding designer duo of Charles and Ray Eames not just with one, but with no less than four exhibitions.
Design Ending blue light by Thomas Wagner | 9/29/2017 Cool spectacles abound. In the flagship store of South Korean spectacles label YUN in Berlin you can not only take glasses home with you immediately, special lenses also provide protection from computer glare.
Design Leaving clichés behind by Anna Moldenhauer | 9/28/2017 Woman equals pink, weak and cute, man is automatically blue, strong and hard-edged? The iphiGenia Gender Design Award makes a stand against conventional stereotypes.
Design Light-footed by Thomas Wagner | 9/27/2017 For all those who don’t like the idea of abseiling in the Alps, but still have a penchant for ropes: the new table by Moormann, called “Seiltänzer” – rope dancer.
Design by New Tendenc The expansion of the working zone by Jasmin Jouhar | 9/25/2017 With its highly precise, pared back furniture the Berlin label New Tendency has made itself an international name. With “New Tendency+” they are expanding their portfolio to include customizing.
Design Fun at work by Jasmin Jouhar | 9/22/2017 Anyone wanting to win out in the sector today needs not only a high-end design but also a precise business model, like the young L&Z company which has specialized in intelligent and well-designed office furniture.
IAA 2017 Fridges on wheels? by Thomas Wagner | 9/21/2017 If car models become increasingly similar, then only the radiator grille and the marque logo remain to distinguish them.
IAA 2017 An icon, two characters by Thomas Wagner | 9/18/2017 Thomas Wagner spoke to Christopher Weil, in charge of Exterior Design at MINI, about the “MINI Electric Concept” and the “MINI John Cooper Works GP Concept”.
Design Cooking up a storm by Thomas Wagner | 9/18/2017 The “Vienna Design Week” has been a firm fixture for some years now. And it will get its 11th airing from September 29 through October 8.
Design Living in the office by Anna Moldenhauer | 9/18/2017 Designers Aust & Amelung, Relvao Kellermann, Studio Pauline Deltour and Uwe Fischer have developed furniture for the “Cor Lab” that create comfy working zones.
Design Rendezvous with the car culture by Thomas Wagner | 9/15/2017 “Grand Basel” is the name of the auto salon that is setting out to attract more than just collectors and design aficionados as of next year. The concept was presented in Basel – along with the one or other dream of a car.
Design Living and Driving by Thomas Edelmann | 9/15/2017 At motor shows, and only there, do studies go on display that never actually make it into mass production. If you’re going to dream, then in style is the motto at Renault, where the “Symbioz” concept car comes with no less than a house as the display cabinet.
IAA 2017 The hitchhiker's guide to a mobile future by Thomas Wagner | 9/14/2017 “Volk ohne Wagen” (a people without a car) is the provocative title of a polemic by mobility researcher Stephan Rammler. What solutions does he actually have to offer for future mobility?
Design High on design by Thomas Wagner | 9/7/2017 Lifestyle choices now pervade many areas of our existence – even the consumption of drugs is no exception. Design has turned its eye to cannabis use.
Design Qian Jiang wins the Formex Nova Design Award 2017 9/5/2017 It is not just young designer Qian Jiang’s works that are outstanding – a look at the five other designers nominated is well worth while.
Design The fruits of laziness by Thomas Wagner | 8/11/2017 Hans Lensvelt happened upon it at a workshop held by Atelier van Lieshout. And now it has gone into production: The “AVL Lazy Modernist” is a reclining armchair and thoroughly modern.
Design Seasoning at the flick of a wrist by Thomas Wagner | 8/16/2017 A scoop of refinement: Nendo has developed a dispenser for powdered soy sauce for a restaurant in Kyoto.
Design From 2D into 3D by Anna Moldenhauer | 8/8/2017 Jongha Choi has designed seating that when folded up can be hung like a print on the wall.
Design No. 3 with a clear view of things by Anna Moldenhauer | 8/3/2017 Design studio “Form us with love” has created a new version of the wristwatch model for TID Watches.
Design Writing utensils by Thomas Wagner | 7/27/2017 “Aion” is the name of a new series of writing utensils Jasper Morrison has designed for Lamy. We took a closer look at the pen.
