FEATURED Light you can shape at will9/12/2023Ambright’s “Flächenlicht” enables designers to plan exclusive lighting solutions that can be shaped at will and thus create unusual scenarios.
STYLEPARK AXOR A Personalized World of Color9/12/2023In its current “Make it yours!” campaign AXOR demonstrates how color can help design individual bathroom scenarios where luxury, haptics and sensuality converge.
BAR No cliches9/11/2023Joshua Lux Innenarchitektur realizes all kinds of different projects – everything from private apartment blocks to commercial properties. Only recently, Gregor's, a boutique wine store, opened its doors in Frankfurt. In the interview, Lux explains the concept behind it and why generally a strong storyline is important to him.
FEATURED Form & Refine 2023: Quatrefoil9/11/2023With "Quatrefoil", Jonas Hermann from Form & Refine has designed a table made of oak, whose legs meet in a line and in this way enable both visual lightness and comfortable sitting.
FEATURED Showering in a Green Oasis9/8/2023Dallmer has equipped the bathrooms in the new Weitsicht residential project on the former Continental premises in Hanover with a drainage system that is not only smart but also looks good.
SUSTAINABILITY Saving Paradise9/6/2023Gary Bencheghib is a filmmaker and environmental activist. Together with his siblings, he founded the organisation Sungai Watch, which stands up against the massive environmental pollution in Indonesia. In parallel, he is looking for ways to recycle the plastic waste – like with Sungai Design and a Tiny House.
DESIGN Daily life full of impressions9/5/2023Atelier Cho Thompson designed the new working environment for Boston-based client EQ Office. The goal: to create an inclusive space that invites interaction with colleagues aside from the home office.
FEATURED Permeable paving stones9/4/2023With the “GDM.KLIMASTEIN” Bavarian concrete stone manufacturer Godelmann has developed a triple-layered stone that fortifies surfaces without sealing them.
FEATURED Ligne Roset 2023: HASHIRA9/4/2023"Hashira", Japanese for "column", is the name Alain Gilles gave to the table he designed for Ligne Roset. A direct reference can be found when looking at the four conical legs made of wood veneer, which support the rounded table top made of marble or solid wood.
STYLEPARK BURGBAD Precision diversity9/1/2023Burgbad’s “Accura” line is a minimalist collection that offers a lot of scope for bathroom designs while relying on only a very few elements. Creative diversity, precise finishing, and well thought out functionality combine here to offer you an array of bathroom scenarios.
DESIGN Women Take Charge!8/31/2023Despite the difficult political, economic, and social circumstances prevailing in Beirut the city boasts a strong design scene in which women are gaining ground. We met five women designers in Beirut and Dubai.
HEALTH Building to heal8/28/2023"Hospital" architecture stands for economic, functional buildings that nobody would like to stay in longer than is absolutely necessary. Yet it has been scientifically proven that architecture can have a positive impact on the healing process. In a show running until January 21, 2024, the TUM Architecture Museum in Munich is presenting pioneering examples.
YOUNG TALENTS Transparency of Origins8/25/2023Xenia Watson is studying Product Design at the HfG Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach. The result of “Within – A Shadow in Knitwear” – her term project – is a cardigan with integrated codes and every fiber of it attests to the appreciation of wool as a material.
STYLEPARK ARCHITECT@WORK On a short visit in the north8/24/2023184 companies will be exhibiting at Architect@Work in Hamburg on 13 and 14 September 2024 – renowned labels will be represented as well as forward-looking start-ups.
INTERVIEWS Encouraging the exchange of knowledge8/23/2023The designers Judith Augustin and Sophie Dobrigkeit organise the DDC Women's Table format as part of the Deutschen Designer Club. They tell us in an interview what their goal is and why a platform for female designers from all over Germany is needed.
SUSTAINABILITY A Universal Principle8/21/2023We can learn from nature about how enormous stability and rigidity can work more effectively despite low structural weights. Prof. Moritz Dörstelmann and his company FibR GmbH have been looking into these construction principles. The result: A very special type of meshwork specially designed for architecture.
SUSTAINABILITY The courage to change8/17/2023The International Building Exhibition in the Stuttgart Region is looking for answers to the question of how we want to live and work in the future. In this context, circular planning and building have a role to play. We spoke to Tobias Schiller and Stefanie Weavers from IBA'27 about the process-based approach of the projects.
ARCHITECTURE House of the Future8/15/2023The Study Pavilion in Brauschweig by Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke is a prototype for both a new approach to learning and new architecture. Our author Falk Jaeger took a closer look at the concept.
FEATURED Designing the Essentials8/14/2023This year designers Alberto Brogliato and Federico Traverso presented their latest product for Magis: The "Trave" chair. In this interview they tell us why for them good design is essentially about balance, time, and, paring things back.
ARCHITECTURE Back to Relevance8/11/2023Something is happening in Barcelona. Two books, published independently of each other and almost simultaneously in Spain and Germany devote themselves to the latest architecture in the Catalan capital, which more than ever focuses on projects for the community and subsidized housing.
INTERVIEWS Masters of Purism8/9/2023In this interview Christoph Gerdesmeyer and Jonas Krohn provide an insight into their broad project portfolio – from the 4.0 office to the customized kitchen.
STYLEPARK BETTE Flexible Archetype8/7/2023With “BetteSuno” Barber Osgerby have designed a bathroom collection for Bette that combines sculptural design with creative flexibility.
ARCHITECTURE Inflatable architecture8/3/2023The architects Yena Young and Marco Canevacci create exclusively temporary, walk-in spatial structures made of air and plastic film with their office Plastique Fantastique. We wanted to know why the "bubbles" never let go of them.
STYLEPARK ARPER Arper 2023: RALIK8/3/2023Ichiro Iwasaki has designed the "Ralik" collection for Arper, with whose seating furniture, tables and benches individual set-ups can be realised.
STYLEPARK RAFFLE Elegant comfort8/1/2023Stylepark is raffling off a "crona steel" lounge chair by Brunner!
ARCHITECTURE Spotlight on Women Architects – Marina Tabassum7/31/2023In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects” we present the work of female architects at regular intervals – such as that of Marina Tabassum from Bangladesh. In her work she reconciles the traditional building culture of her country with international influences.
FAIRS & EVENTS Creativity over Therapy7/28/2023Bad Gastein is a fabulously strange place in itself. And vacant buildings remain one of its characteristics. An art festival embraces the concept of the summer resort, invites creative professionals, and then lets them work freely. Some of the works produced only stay for a few weeks, others can be still be viewed on an Art Trail today.
ARCHITECTURE A Straight Line – No Thanks!7/27/2023For a good 15 years Adam Caruso and Peter St John have numbered among the most highly acclaimed and exciting architects in Great Britain. Now an enjoyable book provides a personal insight into the first few years of the architecture practice and recalls that the course it took was neither easy nor direct, let alone predictable.
SUSTAINABILITY Continuing to write history7/26/2023One of the latest projects by the Think Architecture practice is a house in the middle of Zurich. The firm’s founders Marco Zbinden und Ralph Brogle describe how they work.
YOUNG TALENTS Desirable Deviations7/25/2023A visit to Berlin’s Lichtenberg district to meet young designer Matthias Gschwendtner, who is confidently at home in both the digital and analog worlds – and is happy to leave part of his design work to chance.
FEATURED Plank 2023: RANDEVU7/25/2023Biagio Cisotti and Sandra Laube have designed the "Randevu" table for Plank, which can be quickly and easily moved into the desired position with a folding mechanism specially developed for the furniture.
FEATURED A ribbon of light7/25/2023Industrial designer Simon Busse has created the first mass-produced design of a SparkShape for Ambright: The pendant luminaire "PARIS", which consists of two layers of printed light running perpendicular to each other. The basis for the elegant design was provided by the slim corpuses of the SparkShapes.
FEATURED Designed for eternity7/24/2023Object Carpet has done pioneering work with the new carpet "NEOO": It is made of a single material that can be completely recycled and retains its high-quality properties over many life cycles.
SUSTAINABILITY Shadow-Energy-Cycle7/21/2023With "VERD°", OMC°C is bringing a quite radical vertical greening system to series production readiness for urban locations where trees cannot be planted. In summer it provides shade, in autumn the plants are harvested and provide biomass for energy.