The former flak bunker on Feldstrasse in Hamburg was recently given a five-storey extension by phase10 Ingenieur- und Planungsgesellschaft mbH. Managing Director and Project Manager Ronny Erfurt tells us in an interview what was involved.

The film E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea will be released in cinemas at the end of October. Director Beatrice Minger and co-director Christoph Schaub tell us how they aim to make the architect and designer's perspective experienceable through docufiction.

Designer Dominik Tesseraux has had a significant influence on the development of bathroom specialist Bette. In this interview, he tells us what is fundamental to this and what the team is currently working on.

Wilhelm Opatz is an interior designer and runs a graphic design studio in Frankfurt am Main. He recently published a new volume in his ‘Architekturführer Frankfurt’ series, this time presenting selected buildings from the years 2000 to 2009. He tells us in an interview what his concept is and why he appreciates side paths.

Manfred Wolf and Jean-Marc da Costa have been leading the lighting manufacturer serien.lighting for four decades. The publishers of Stylepark met the designers at their factory in Rodgau and talked about the company's history as well as their plans for the future.

Laufen recently started up the world's first electric tunnel kiln in Gmunden. The new technology enables climate-neutral ceramic production – a revolution in the industry. Managing Director Christian Schaefer tells us in an interview what the next steps are.

The works of Olaf Holzapfel offer a new perspective on artisanship: whether it’s the collaborative work "Wand" in the German Federal Environment Agency or "Der Mantel" in Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich. Holzapfel tells us in the following interview why there's a need for architecture we can identify with.

Heiko Kühnen is the plant and development manager of the Gläserne Manufaktur (Transparent Factory) run by Object Carpet in Krefeld. In the following interview he tells us how his firm’s “DUO” technology will have a lasting impact on the production of high-quality floor coverings and design carpets.

Architect Björn Liese started out as a one-man office with an unusual project – the conversion of a Hamburg bunker into a residential building. In this interview, he tells us what he has learnt in the process for future construction.

Artificial Intelligence and New Work – two current topics that global design and architecture firm Gensler is constantly researching. We gain insight into their work in an interview with Lukasz Platkowski, Principal and Managing Director for Gensler in Berlin, and Philip Tidd, Principal and Managing Director for Gensler in Munich.

In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we are introducing the work of female architects to you at regular intervals. And now it’s the turn of Sofia Ceylan, Dr. Katharina Neubauer and Annabelle von Reutern, who have teamed up under the name TOMAS.

For his master’s thesis on “Compostable Devices” Eric Geissler researched alternative materials for small electric appliances. Accordingly, his casing for a hairdryer was made of compostable fungus mycelium. In the interview, he tells us about the benefits of the material.

Architectural structures, empty spaces, abstract fragments: The photographs by Satijn Panyigay show a state between presence and absence, full of calm and tension, melancholy and hope. In our interview, she tells us what she’s looking for.

Sonia Bąk-Tokarska and Michał Tokarski founded Studio Tok four years ago. In addition to their surname, "Tok" also stands for ways of thinking, and thought processes in the Polish language. In this interview, they talk about the role that painting played in their childhood and what a lamp has to do with a sumo wrestler.

Daniel Rybakken's approach has been honoured early on with many awards. We spoke to the designer about how chairs are like human bodies, the relationship between art and design and what his father taught him about cars.

Prof Sebastian Oschatz led the "Flx Tech+ Waste/4" course at the HfG Offenbach together with Prof Janina Schmidt and Carina Moser in the summer semester 2024. In this short interview, he describes how the project uses digital and interaction design to benefit agriculture.

Studio Loes became known beyond Berlin for "Element", a modular timber building. Their love of wood is apparent in many of their designs. In the following interview Gonzalo Lizama tells us how the three founding members got together and what characterizes their work.

Prof. Ferdinand Ludwig is an architect and holds the Chair of Green Technologies in Landscape Architecture at Technische Universität München (TUM); he is also a partner at OLA Office for Living Architecture. In this interview, he talks to us about the uses of Baubotanik in the city of tomorrow.

The Populus Hotel in Denver is due to open soon and offers a clear contrast to the skyline of Colorado's capital: a conversation with Juliane Wolf, Design Principal and Partner at Studio Gang, about trees as inspiration, hotels to revitalise the city centre and windows that can be lived in.

Petra Blaisse has just published a comprehensive book called "Art Applied", looking back on 33 years of practice since she founded her studio "Inside Outside" in 1991. We had a quite personal conversation about her view of design – or, as she prefers, "applied work".

In the form of “Bellhop Glass” for Flos, Barber Osgerby have expanded the “Bellhop" Collection to include pendular luminaires and table lamps made of hand-blown opaline glass and aluminum. Edward Barber explains the idea to us.

Industrial designer Marc Gerber lives in Bern and designs products for which he likes to think outside the box. He talks to us about what he aims to change with his designs, the ways of working he learnt from Konstantin Grcic, and what he is currently chiseling away at.

Lukas Heintschel designs furniture that combines conceptual approaches with practical development anchored in industrial design. Despite their high functional requirements, they should be pleasant and fun to use. In this interview, he gives us an insight into his approach.

Björn Dahlström has expanded the “Velit” collection for Plank with a lounge chair and a side table. In this interview, he tells us why the design of the frame crafted from artfully bent metal wire is something special.

In the form of the Laufen Forum near Basel, architecture practice Snøhetta has created a new brand experience for bathroom manufacturer Laufen that goes far beyond simply presenting of its products. Architect Patrick Lüth, Managing Director and partner at Snøhetta in Innsbruck, describes the project to us in this interview.

Architect Georg Döring BDA in an interview on the conversion of a former department stores' for use as the city history museum of Cologne.

In this interview, we talk to Eva Rucki and Conny Freyer about their art collective Troika, which they run with Sebastien Noel from London, the multi-layered forms of non-human intelligence and their exhibition at the MAK Vienna.

The interdisciplinary design studio Bitsch was founded in 2021 by Arthur Bitsch in Strasbourg, France. This year he exhibited at Milan’s SaloneSatellite. In the following interview he explains his concept to us.

Social housing is not exactly a topic that makes architects jump for joy. The life's work of Polish-French architect Iwona Buczkowska, born in 1953, who has created a rich portfolio of extraordinary residential and educational buildings in France since the mid-1970s, shows that things used to be different. She was recently honoured with the Jane Drew Prize for her work.

With "Catifa Carta", Arper is introducing a groundbreaking new material to the market that is manufactured from a by-product of wood and goes by the name of PaperShell. Andrea Mulloni, Head of Sustainability at Arper, explains to us the great potential of the newly developed material.

What does an armchair sound like? The new furniture label Bottone presented its debut collection this year at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. We met co-founder Daniele Luciano Ferrazzano for an interview in Berlin.

With "AXOR Citterio C", Antonio Citterio has designed a minimalist basin mixer that is a statement in terms of function, feel and aesthetics – and increases comfort in small bathrooms in particular. We met the architect and designer in Milan for an interview.

In 2013, Moritz Böttcher and Nikolaus Kayser started to run their design studio together in Berlin. Since then, they designing as Böttcher & Kayser consumer goods, furniture and luminaires, both themselves and for international clients from Ligne Roset to Stelton.

Together with Wagner Living, architect and designer Hadi Teherani has created the ergonomic "W3D" stool, the body of which is made from recyclable bio-plastic using a 3D printing process in the #wagnerdesignlab. The matching tables will be presented at Milan Design Week. He tells us what the collaboration is about in an interview.

Johanna Seelemann is curious and does not let circumstances or her own assumptions stop her from questioning them. Her research method is designing, her laboratory the world of materials. In this interview, she gives us an insight into her way of thinking and working.