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Düsseldorf’s new subway line with its six stations is persuasive in architectural, artistic and engineering terms.

It’s not just the environment that can adapt to the climate, so can architecture: Technische Universität München invites you to the symposium on “Adaptive Outer Building Shells”.

If grouted seams are tight, you need a fine brush: The Ambiente showcases all sorts of highly practical, at times beautiful and often entirely superfluous things.

Lighting systems used down through the ages and a new eco-design directive: The challenges presented by switching to new lighting on roads and plazas.

The "German Design Awards 2016" prize-giving ceremony took place during the Ambiente. The justifications given for the awards and the characterization of the products say a lot about how design promotion is currently construed.

No reason to immediately send out a Mayday call: The speech in honor of Konstantin Grcic at the official ceremony presenting the 2016 "German Design Award Personality".

At this year’s Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair the Scandinavians show how much we long for homeliness.

Relax, read or work – bedrooms have long since ceased to only be used for sleeping. Assuming the bed is comfy and flexible – and cuts a fine figure, too.

Sleep or simply doze during the day – a thing of the past. Today, the bed drifts in a veritable ocean of information. Lying down is no longer about resting, but about moving.

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have designed roller blinds for Kvadrat. In an interview with Martina Metzner, Erwan Bouroullec reveals the ideas behind the new product and how design stimulates the senses.

Let there be light: The Charité Hospital in Berlin is currently conducting research into how the ambiance in a room affects patients’ recovery.

In the current debate on affordable urban housing that meets the inhabitants’ quality expectations it certainly bears casting a glance at Harry Glück’s buildings.

: goes to festivals and folds up furniture

New housing? Clueless politicians. A commentary by Jeremy Gaines.

Marie Christine Dorner is convinced that a piece of furniture must look good from all sides, even from below. Uta Abendroth talked with the interior architect and designer about her new creations for Ligne Roset.