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The two architectural firms of Young & Ayata and Michan Architecture joined forces to design a residential building in Mexico City. The result features an expressive concrete façade that provides for subtle agitation.

With their Douglas House in London’s West End, Note Design Studio has created a new feel-good place for flexible working. In the process, the Swedish collective has given this 1930s building a gentle nudge and a slight wave.

Stylepark raffles off one "Accroche cœur" coat rack by Fermob

Quality, aesthetics, courage and heart – guiding principles that characterise the traditional Fantini company and the design of its high-quality bathroom and kitchen fittings.

There are many facets to sustainable construction. This house sounds the way it looks – the Wikkelhouse (twisted house) by Amsterdam-based studio Fiction Factory is manufactured as a modular lightweight construction made of virgin-fiber paperboard that can be put up on site quickly without problems or complications.

"Grace" - that is the name of the new chair by the Hoffmann Kahleyss design studio for Freifrau. Elegance and particularly strong material form the basis.

Marialaura Rossiello Irvine leads the interdisciplinary design studio Irvine in Milan. In this interview, she tells us what she is currently working on, what her creative approach is and what Italian design needs today.

From March 22 to 26, 2021, ISH digital will bring together the sanitary, heating and air conditioning industry. In the fields of "Energy" and "Water", the world’s leading trade fair for water, heating and air conditioning will be busy showcasing current trends and for five whole days offer visitors the chance to network digitally, see innovations and become acquainted with product highlights.

The “Van B” residential building in Munich hopes to provide answers to the housing questions of our time. Our author took a closer look at the concept behind it.

"What if we completely rethought the sofa?" – this question brought Magis together with Stefan Diez for a joint experiment: a flexible system made from recycled and recyclable materials.

The “AXOR MyEdition” competition has been decided. It was won by architect and interior designer Katrin Engl whose design addresses the beauty and fragility of nature.

"Aplo" by Tristan Lohner for Fermob brings dynamism to lighting: conceived as mobile, it offers numerous uses in the form of a light bulb.

UNNO – “One” is the name of the first digital gallery for contemporary Latin-American design. For the program, Maria Dolores Uribe and Laura Abe Vettoretti have chosen items that unite traditional craftsmanship and contemporary trends.

edding has opened its first tattoo shop in Hamburg – and here, Zumtobel’s flexible lighting solutions are an important factor in guaranteeing precise lines.

Designing the kind of offices that not only satisfy the demands made on modern working environments but also focus on flexibility and coziness – no easy task. For three of its current projects, multidisciplinary design studio Ippolito Fleitz has solved this challenge dynamically and with adventurous colors.

NKBAK's new Stylepark building in Frankfurt am Main has been awarded the renowned German Brick Award.

Architecture can be beautiful. It can impress, influence and frighten, it can be serious – but above all architecture can definitely be fun! Take WERK12 by MVRDV and N-V-O in Munich’s Werksviertel-Mitte that was named best new building in Germany and awarded the DAM Prize 2021.

More light, more space, and great calm: In Copenhagen, David Thulstrup applied typical Scandinavian coolness and architectural precision in extending a private apartment upwards and completely rethinking its layout.

"Room Service": final-year students at Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm have collaborated with Sweden's leading furniture manufacturers to develop product prototypes that are being presented as a hybrid exhibition during the current Stockholm Design Week.

The new media campus OMA has designed for the Axel Springer Publishing Group sees itself as the concrete manifestation of a hypothesis about the end of classic office structures. The fact that in the digital age we urgently need enough space for communications and the exchange of opinions is something that the current pandemic has no doubt brought home to us once again.

Originally, the X-D-E-P-O-T at the Die Neue Sammlung in Munich was supposed to open its doors in November 2020. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the opening was put back until this spring. We talked to its director Angelika Nollert in advance about the curatorial concept behind it.

The Kreuzbergpass service building in Sexten designed by Pedevilla Architekten and Willeit Architektur offers hikers protection and orientation: Made of concrete and wood, it withstands even extreme weather conditions.

How does Philippe Paré, Managing Director Gensler Paris, see the changes in the world of work? What challenges are waiting around the corner? And what does the office of the future really need?

From 8 February to 14 February 2021, the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair and Stockholm Design Week will take place – due to the ongoing global pandemic as a hybrid event of digital offerings and design presentations in Stockholm.

Jonathan Radetz is currently experimenting with solid-colored cast glass, which he uses to create a fascinating sense of dynamism, one which allows the apparent solidity of his materials to appear more diffuse.

The competition for the Exilmuseum in Berlin has been decided. We spoke to founding director Christoph Stölzl and curator Cornelia Vossen about the thematic concept and the background to the project.

The studio chmara.rosinke from Berlin and Vienna has designed its first office furnishings with the OFIS Collection. Five constructivist anti-designs that question old work typologies - and literally demand a new attitude.

Camira presents "Craggan Flax", a contemporary further development that ideally shows off the natural strength of the bast fibre.

The exhibition “Greening the City” in Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt addresses the greening of buildings. We talked to curator Hilde Strobl about the interplay of nature and architecture.

Stylepark raffles off one "Polygon" easy chair by Prostoria.

The Vitra Design Museum Gallery will shortly present the exhibition “Memphis. 40 Years of Kitsch and Elegance”. Mateo Kries, Director of the Vitra Design Museum, tells us whether design can still provoke today and what message the extraordinary objects have for us.

The time is ripe for change: Stefan Diez has formulated ten requirements that he believes products should meet. He explains the concept to us in an interview.

Tadao Ando has transformed a 250-year-old former commodities exchange in Paris into a new contemporary museum for the Pinault Collection. The Pritzker Prize winner has inserted a richly-contrasting horizontal line into the venerable rotunda beneath which fair-faced concrete shimmers gently.

Studio Niruk, in collaboration with the label Cork Units, have designed four interior products that show that the natural material cork can also offer a graphic aesthetic.

With "four-two soft", Roland Meyer-Brühl has designed a corner sofa that leaves nothing to be desired as an all-rounder.