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Insights on mystified outlooks. A column by Michael Erlhoff.

Designer Alfredo Häberli has created a sample house in the Allgäu region as the symbol of a changed aesthetic of the home. It shows that it is well worthwhile trying to reconcile design and ecology anew.

What bored literary critics, is something architects to this day love and praise: Uwe Bresan sheds light on the exciting history of the reception of Adalbert Stifter’s Biedermeier novel “Indian Summer” and the Rosenhaus described in it.

Design studio “Form us with love” has created a new version of the wristwatch model for TID Watches.

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.

Alfredo Häberli insists on perfect detailing even in the bathroom of his “Haussicht” concept house – in the shape of Dallmer’s “CeraWall Individual Duo”.

C4sun has outfitted the roof terrace of the “Cologne Golf Club” with an intelligent sun-sail system.

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.

C.F. Møller Architects chose Petersen Tegl bricks for the façade of a student dorm.

The "Komorebi" prototype luminaire imitates the poetry of sunlight in the middle of places where the sun never shines.

Tile manufacturer Mosa has teamed up with young designers in its home town of Maastricht to give some of the sanitary rooms in the in-district of Wyck a makeover – with surprising results.

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.

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.

Concrete in a completely new guise: In Rome, Konstantin Grcic has launched the "Magiliana Project" in dialogue with Pier Luigi Nervi.

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.