STYLEPARK AXOR On a voyage of discovery10/26/2022With the P155 maisonette, Peter Ippolito and Stefan Gabel have created an atmospheric retreat for themselves. The bathroom, equipped with the "AXOR Urquiola" collection, is a design highlight.
FEATURED Biographical spaces10/19/2022In Stuttgart, no w here architects have transformed an old building apartment into a personal retreat where serien.lighting luminaires are part of the overall concept.
ARCHITECTURE Between Städel and Erdkeil10/18/2022Every other year, graphic designer Wilhelm E. Opatz and the association Freunde Frankfurts produce an architectural guide on Frankfurt, titled “Architekturführer Frankfurt.” Each edition addresses one decade of architectural history in the metropolis on the Main. And the guides explore much more than the buildings themselves. The latest publication is dedicated to the 1990s.
FEATURED Harbor light10/3/2022The KAI 8B office building, equipped with luminaires from TTC Timmler Technology, forms a new luminous building block in Düsseldorf's Medienhafen.
FEATURED Reduce, Reuse, Recycle9/28/2022With a new CO2-reduced fiberglass concrete, the facade manufacturer Rieder wants to contribute to ecological change. The new building material also characterizes the facade of the new glemm21 headquarters.
ARCHITECTURE Spotlight on Women Architects – Minnette de Silva9/26/2022In our series "Spotlight on Women Architects" we regularly present the work of female architects – the Sri Lankan architect Minnette De Silva was a true pioneer and combined tradition and modernity in her projects. About time to rediscover her work.
FEATURED Glowing Grid9/23/2022Arkitema Architects has designed an impressive lobby for the Hotel NH Collection Copenhagen – featuring Banker Wire’s Architectural Mesh Wire pattern "S-50".
ARCHITECTURE A house as a pastry9/20/2022In Amarante, Portugal, Fala Atelier has transformed a residential building into a colorful and texture-heavy collage whose unifying element is a concrete chimney.
ARCHITECTURE Between light and art9/15/2022With the new volume "Licht Kunst Licht 5 – Lichtdesign für Architektur", the Büro Licht Kunst Licht shows how multilayered space and light can interact with each other.
STYLEPARK DOPPELMAYR/GARAVENTA Multimodal Spaces9/13/2022The Câble 1 (C1) aerial tramway currently being built by Doppelmayr/Garaventa in the paris area is a prime example of what sustainable transport spaces can look like.
ARCHITECTURE Rieder 2022: CO2-REDUCED FIBERGLASS CONCRETE9/12/2022With its new glass fiber concrete, Rieder aims to gradually substitute cement completely in its products in order to become climate-positive by 2030.
ARCHITECTURE In Praise of Shadows8/31/2022Seiichi Yamada Architect & Associates have realized a house on a narrow rectangular plot in Shizuoka, Japan. It can be read as both an exemplary unity of material, construction, and space and as a subtle, contemporary interpretation of local building traditions.
ARCHITECTURE Building the future8/30/2022The series "Drunter und Drüber" (Under and Over) by Arte and Bayrischer Rundfunk presents international architectural projects that link urban space and nature and address the limited space available with forward-looking ideas.
ARCHITECTURE Two in One 8/29/2022In Berlin's West, the architecture office Coordination has converted two attic flats into an elegant penthouse. Now the Wilhelminian architecture serves as a colourful backdrop for the art.
ARCHITECTURE Spotlight on Women Architects – Dorte Mandrup8/25/2022In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as the buildings of Dorte Mandrup, which arise like sculptures from landscapes and continue their unique aesthetics.
ARCHITECTURE "New Yorkers demand their city back!"8/23/2022The conversion of Manhattan's Art Deco building One Wall Street by Harry Macklowe is considered the largest transformation in the city's history. Is there a welcome trend behind it?
COLUMN The world's longest fig leaf8/16/2022When an Arab state wants to divert attention from its misdeeds and a renowned U.S. architectural firm provides the built fig leaf, the results are sometimes astonishing. Saudi Arabia has presented the current plans for the new city "The Line" on the Red Sea.
ARCHITECTURE Construction between tradition and future8/15/2022"The Wood That Makes Our Cities" is dedicated to the ecological, economic, industrial as well as technical challenges of using wood as a material in urban development. It is based on the example of forestry and wooden architecture in France.
ARCHITECTURE A house that grows with you8/5/2022Designed by Stuttgart-based architecture practice Yonder, Haus S together with the adjacent sauna annex forms an ensemble that boasts an extraordinary view out over the Allgäu countryside.
ARCHITECTURE Spotlight on Women Architects – Ursulina Schüler-Witte8/2/2022In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Berlin-based Ursulina Schüler-Witte, one of the great protagonists of German Futurism who, together with her husband, enriched the German capital by designing a number of iconic buildings for it.
ARCHITECTURE The die is cast8/1/2022Designed by Zone of Utopia Architecture and Mathieu Forest Architecte, the Xinxiang Cultural Tourism Center serves as an architectural landmark in a winter sports center, resembling stacked ice cubes.
ARCHITECTURE The City as a Stage7/29/2022With the Taipei Performing Arts Center, OMA have designed a collage-like building that sees itself as an informal theatre that seeks a conversation with the city.
ARCHITECTURE A Dialogue with the City7/20/2022David Chipperfield Architects have transformed the former Préfecture de Paris into a city within a city while addressing themes such as mixed use, urban density and sustainable construction.
ARCHITECTURE Spotlight on Women Architects – Lina Bo Bardi7/15/2022In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects such as a great forgotten figure of Tropical Modernism: The multi-faceted work and impressive buildings of Italian-born Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi has greatly enriched Brazilian architecture.
ARCHITECTURE The New Class7/8/2022The BMW headquarters in Munich (playfully known in Germany as the “BMW Four-Cylinder”) designed by Karl Schwanzer has been setting standards architecture for BMW for the past 50 years. Now this imposing head office has been integrated into a site that is constantly being updated by international architects.
ARCHITECTURE Radically Normal7/4/2022His personality is as poised and natural as his buildings: A look at the architecture of this year's Pritzker Prize winner, Diébédo Francis Kéré.
FEATURED Glass ship6/22/2022Furniture from Renz was used at the headquarters of the logistics company EgeTrans in Marbach am Neckar, contributing to the successful atmosphere of the office building.
STYLEPARK AXOR Conscious luxury6/20/2022Villa Copenhagen combines luxury and resource-saving action. Various AXOR products in the hotel bathrooms also contribute to this, convincing through their interplay of aesthetics and sustainability.
ARCHITECTURE Alpine Grandeur6/13/2022A modern "village in village" is currently taking shape on land formerly used by the military in Andermatt, Switzerland. The project is a brainchild of entrepreneur Samih Sawiris and one element of it is "Mira", an apartment house designed by Ilg Santer Architekten and atelier 522, containing 18 duplex apartments. It is scheduled for completion by 2023.
ARCHITECTURE Spotlight on Women Architects – Tatiana Bilbao6/10/2022In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Tatiana Bilbao, whose credo is “Planning together, building together, living together”.
STYLEPARK DOPPELMAYR/GARAVENTA Ride into the future5/30/2022Floriade Expo 2022 in Almere sees itself as a showcase for a green, healthy and livable city. Part of the concept is a ropeway from Doppelmayr/Garaventa that not only provides access to the exhibition site but also gives a preview of future urban mobility concepts.
ARCHITECTURE Future model5/11/2022MVRDV designed the pavilion "Fuggerei NEXT500" as a reminiscence of the Fuggerei in Augsburg, which carries the concept of the oldest existing social settlement into the present.
ARCHITECTURE From Another Age5/6/2022With its sculptural vigor, Oscar Niemeyer’s posthumously realized pavilion in Provence provides yet another example of the Brazilian architect’s prowess.
FEATURED Five times purist5/3/2022The Ca l'Amo residential building on Ibiza brings nature and architecture together in a spectacular way. Products from Gira were also used for this, contributing to the purist appearance of the building.
ARCHITECTURE More than a café4/29/2022Robert Stadler, an Austrian whose adopted home is Paris, has enriched the tradition-steeped KWM Krefeld with a coffee house that thoroughly lives up to the famed Viennese model. As an “gesamtkunstwerk”, it carries the spirit of productively combining art, craft, and industry forward into the Modern Age and playfully melds design and life, tradition and innovation.