ARCHITECTURE Alpine Ornamentation6/6/2018Pedevilla Architects have expanded a South Tyrolean hotel with a spa, a beauty area and a cooking school. Their designs are surprisingly ornamental.
FEATURED Perfection in detail6/4/2018Dallmer delivers functional aesthetics in the bathrooms of the “NeMo” residential buildings in Dusseldorf.
FEATURED Beatles Park5/30/2018On the grounds of the "Old Vinyl Factory" RMIG demonstrates just how surprisingly diverse façade cladding made of perforated sheet metal can be.
ARCHITECTURE Help in reading history 5/17/2018In recent years there has hardly been an urban planning project in Frankfurt/Main that has triggered a similarly emotional debate as the partial reconstruction of the historic Old Town, which was destroyed in the war. A commentary on its completion.
FEATURED Synchronized with the body’s inner clock5/3/2018Waldmann has provided ideal working light in Bayer’s head office in Basel.
ARCHITECTURE Shopping in the Intermediate World5/2/2018David Chipperfield Architects have designed a minimalist flagship store for the fashion platform Ssense in Montreal, Canada.
SALONE DEL MOBILE 2018 A tower for Milan4/27/2018Architecture studio OMA designed a high-rise for the art collection of Fondazione Prada in Milan. Join us on a tour to mark its inauguration.
FEATURED Compact energy source3/20/2018Streamlined solutions are appreciated in Weser Tower: The "Evoline Square80" module helps make work efficient and avoids messy, tangled cables.
FEATURED A firm hold for a heavy lift3/19/2018The "Variant VX" hinge system from Simonswerk securely holds the heavy doors of the Wälderhaus Hamburg.
ARCHITECTURE Baroque Liaisons3/7/2018Max Dudler Architects renovated a baroque manor house on the river Saar and added two outbuildings. They have created a subtle play of forms, materials and quotations.
ARCHITECTURE As white as snow, as black as ebony2/28/2018On behalf of Hyundai Motor, Asif Khan designed a pavilion for the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang whose façade absorbs light.
ARCHITECTURE A kitchen atelier for the French Laundry2/27/2018Snøhetta's architects have added a new kitchen wing to the three-star restaurant " The French Laundry" in California.
FEATURED The intelligent home2/20/2018It helps save resources and allows easy control of heating and the like: Gira’s smart building technology.
STYLEPARK ZUMTOBEL Efficiency meets beauty2/19/2018With “Tecton Balanced White” and “Panos infinity” Zumtobel illuminates the new halls of Messe Dornbirn Exhibition Center, designed by Marte.Marte Architects.
FEATURED One-stop project2/19/2018Lindner has fitted out the interior of the “Brainlab Tower Riem” as general contractor.
ARCHITECTURE Door to door with Aldi 2/5/2018The discounter Aldi Nord plans to create affordable housing in Berlin by combining it with its own markets.
ARCHITECTURE Ski and chips2/2/2018Herzog & de Meuron have added a small snack bar to their buildings for the cable car and gondola lift on the Chäserrugg.
ARCHITECTURE A contemporary country house1/29/2018There has been a marked decline in the popularity of dormitory towns. One reason might be the mediocre, sometimes incompatible architecture that seems to prevail in such areas. Atelier ST has built a modern country house near Zwickau that offers a persuasive alternative.
ARCHITECTURE A spatial sculpture as a fashion gallery 1/5/2018For an exclusive shoe store in Antwerp, Glenn Sestig Architects created a shop design in which the fashions are not the only works of art to be enjoyed.
ARCHITECTURE Long live the A-frame house!1/4/2018Canadian architect Jean Verville draws out the strengths of a 1960s vacation home.
ARCHITECTURE Bare rooms for fashion 1/3/2018Atelier Barda has accentuated the raw character of a former warehouse for the new office rooms of fashion platform "Ssense".
STYLEPARK MINI The future of living1/1/2018In presentations worldwide car brand MINI has demonstrated how to maximize small footprints with its MINI LIVING installations. Now things are getting serious: The first MINI LIVING co-living destination is to be built in Shanghai and construction work is scheduled to start this year.
ARCHITECTURE Living at the desk 1/1/2018Studio Joanna Laajisto has created office spaces for an international agency that staff have already made into their second home.
ARCHITECTURE Hallowed work 12/29/2017Belgian architecture firm Klaarchitectuur has converted a onetime chapel into its studio.
ARCHITECTURE Silent places of worship12/26/2017Photographer Stefan Giftthaler has captured the church buildings realized in and around Milan after World War II in a series of impressive images that exude a sense of calm.
ARCHITECTURE Six homes for relaxing in 12/18/2017For all those people who want a retreat, but who don’t want to be alone: The new vacation homes by Héctor Barroso in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, create terraced intimacy.
ARCHITECTURE The result counts12/15/2017A house by Melbourne-based architects Walter&Walter is firm proof that you do not always need to re-invent the wheel.
ARCHITECTURE Exclusive offer12/14/2017The “hotel” by the Danish company Vipp, which manufactures home utensils, follows a concept where the number of beds is certainly not the focus of attention.
FEATURED Luxury behind bars12/12/2017The interior architects have chosen Axor products for a boutique hotel behind erstwhile prison walls.
STYLEPARK KVADRAT Nordhavn sends a textile message12/8/2017Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec not only dream up textile designs for Kvadrat. They have also for the second time designed the label’s Copenhagen flagship showroom.
ARCHITECTURE Alpine architectural object12/7/2017Architects Armin and Alexander Pedevilla have created a spectacular annex for a long-standing hotel in the Alps in North Italy.
ARCHITECTURE Arch friends12/6/2017The architects at Snøhetta have created a convincing and very contemporary store interior for Aesop in London by drawing on a traditional architectural element.
STYLEPARK SWAROVSKI Arias beneath the crystal11/28/2017Swarovski has outfitted the new Mariinsky Theater building in St. Petersburg, Russia, with quite extraordinary composition
FEATURED Unique and strong contrasts11/28/2017The “rr55” residential complex in Tyrol boasts an exciting façade thanks to the use of Rieder’s fiberglass concrete “vintage” panels.