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Contemporary African architecture is fascinatingly diverse and combines tradition and the present. Nevertheless, the trend-setting designs often receive little attention in Europe. A new architectural guide now offers a unique documentation of the most important buildings in the 49 countries of sub-Saharan Africa.

Ligne Roset has expanded its “Taru” collection by Sebastian Herkner to include an armchair and a sofa. The furniture’s design succeeds in striking a balance between overall coherence and items each with a character of its own.

Gira stands for innovative building automation and control plus top-quality products combined with an attractive design. We talked to Architecture Media Manager Julian Waning about the company’s new image campaign.

Darmstadt's Mathildenhöhe recently became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This designation honors an architectural ensemble that exemplifies the artistic spirit of optimism of the young 20th century.

AXOR’s "Compact Luxury" looks at the future of urban life. A prime example is the Stairway House in Tokyo by Nendo Design Studio, which reinterprets the idea of community.

David Chipperfield Architects have converted a former monastery complex in Paderborn into a company headquarters. The result is a lesson in sensitive deconstruction.

The Nové Hamry weekend house in the Czech Ore Mountains, designed by architects New How, is the architectural response to the natural environment: aerodynamic but angular in design, classic elements such as the roof and wall step back in favour of a clear language of form, thus blending together for the eye of the beholder.

Maria Porro is the Salone del Mobile.Milano’s new president.

Holzrausch – are founders Tobias Petri and Sven Petzold, are craftsmanship, cabinetmaking, outfitting, architecture, and interior design. One of the pioneering projects, the “J. Gast” kitchen system that they developed with Office Heinzelmann Ayadi and Relvão Kellermann is set to enter stores later this year.

The ideal symbiosis of function and form is very much in demand in the kitchen - anyone who likes to cook appreciates when products are well thought out down to the last detail. The iF Design Award 2021 serves as a good guideline for evaluating the multitude of products on offer. We present ten award-winning kitchen gadgets to you.

AXOR is looking into the future of urban living with its "Compact Luxury" project. In the same context the designer brand of the Hansgrohe Group is asking the question of how the definition of luxury is changing and is busy investigating the effects of the process on architecture and interior design.

Architectural highlights at a height of 3,200 meters: Artist Olafur Eliasson and noa* - network of architecture are behind the new projects on the alpine Grawand ridge in North Italy; projects that not only evoke admiration but are also polarizing.

Rotterdam is a field of experimentation for architects and urban planners alike. With the "Rooftop Catalogue" put together by Dutch architecture practice MVRDV together with "Rotterdam Rooftop Days", the objective is now to take possession of the third dimension.

The floating house "Portage Bay Float Home" by Studio DIAA provides a home in an area of around 60 square metres. Although this type of living is traditionally firmly anchored in Seattle, it comes with challenges. In return, the unique view and the feeling of freedom are priceless.

In Berlin, an exhibition about architect and urban planner Werner Düttmann is reaching out from the Brücke Museum, and extending over all of West Berlin and beyond that into the Internet. Not only is this Corona compliant, it also sets new standards in terms of communicating knowledge and information about architecture.

Angelina Kjellén and Kalle Hellmark have presented a material experiment for mussels-based concrete, investigating its aesthetics, composition and further processing into an architecture.

Since 2019, creative jack-of-all-trades Luca Nichetto, who runs his own design studio in Stockholm and Venice, has been art director of the French lifestyle brand "La Manufacture". In addition to interiors, this also markets fashion of a kind on which Nichetto has his own particular take. How does he see the present and future of the design industry?

Light, luxury and fluid transitions: Patricia Urquiola has created a modern retreat with the hotel "Il Sereno Lago di Como", which was recently expanded with an exclusive penthouse suite.

The 19th edition of the London Design Festival will take place from September 18 to 26, 2021. In addition to providing a creative platform for presentation and networking, the festival is intended to play a central role in the city's economic recovery as well as giving visitors the opportunity to rediscover London.

IVC Commercial has expanded its successful "Rudiments" collection with the Clay and Clay Create designs.

The iF Design Award 2021 was recently presented – for the 67th time, to be more precise – thus honoring outstanding ideas in the relevant disciplines. We are presenting four prizewinners to you, designers whose approach to sustainability is particularly impressive.

With "Revisiting Factory", the Croatian furniture manufacturer Prostoria marks the return to the factory after the pandemic and uses an impressive installation to show the creative potential of the young family business.

When the buzzing creative team at Snøhetta collaborates with Bronx-based food, design and art collective Ghetto Gastro, it seems something unique is bound to happen. In this case, the culinary cultural space Burnside in Japan's capital Tokyo.

Since 2014 the Chinese architect Xu Tiantian and her studio DnA has implemented more than 20 projects in rural China. Like architectural acupuncture, the small, modest projects are intended to help give villages a future once again. The “Songyang Story” is impressive – and full of hope.

With the “dito Workbench” Gumpo is expanding its successful collection "normcore" by Relvāokellermann.

As a team, the gallery owner Johann König and the architect Arno Brandlhuber bring new wind into the discussion about the preservation as well as the further use of the "mice bunker" and the Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology in Berlin Lichterfelde.

The Bröhan Museum in Berlin is currently showing an exemplary digital programme to accompany the exhibition "Braun 100".

With "The Tower", Frank Gehry has created the heart of the new LUMA Arles cultural centre in the south of France and at the same time built the city a landmark that attracts international attention.

"TinyBe" seeks a dialogue between art, science, architecture and business with residential sculptures and offers visitors the option to stay in them temporarily for an individual experience of space.

Petersen Tegl provided the cladding for a new skyscraper in Manhattan with hand-crafted bricks that lend the concrete building an unusual elegance.

With “Carré Belge” ingenhoven architects working in collaboration with Proximus Real Estate AG have created a new quarter in Cologne’s downtown area that should improve the city’s microclimate through densification and urban greening.

burgbad is presenting its most important product innovations and additions to its range in a new and original way with the digital 360-degree tour burgbad@home and an exclusive show truck that is currently touring Europe.

Lina Ghotmeh’s Stone Garden is a synthesis of architecture and archaeology, of rocks and flora as well as a highly emotional homage to the inhabitants’ will to survive in the architect’s catastrophe-ridden home town Beirut.

A shower tile that is flush with the bathroom floor: with "BetteAir", Dominik Tesseraux has created a shower tile for Bette that can be glued directly onto the screed.

With "Elastica", Innocenzo Rifino and Diego Rossi from Studio Habits span the light across the room and from the floor to the ceiling. The luminaire can be controlled with a simple hand movement.