The Luxushotel "At Six" is Stockholm's newest design hotspot and combines Nordic design with fittings and showers from Axor.

In Copenhagen’s North Harbor a new lease of life has been found for a former coal crane – in the form of a hideaway that doubles up as a show of Danish design prowess.

For the bathroom in the exclusive "One Ocean Club" in Barcelona the choice fell on ceramics courtesy of Villeroy & Boch.

The built future optimism of the 1970s can currently be viewed at the “Utopie Plastic” exhibition in Friche de l’Escalette near Marseille.

Simonswerk has created a finger-trap protection set for retrofitting doors.

With its bathroom series Bette Loft and Bette Loft Ornament, Bette demonstrates its competence in molding technology.

On Römerberg, in the middle of Frankfurt’s Old City, Meixner Schlüter Wendt have created an archetypical building of glass that appears to be suspended in space.

The bulldozer has rolled in. The demolition of Robin Hood Gardens has started. An obit. In praise of the best concrete in East London.

The new Historisches Museum Frankfurt building designed by Lederer Ragnarsdottir Oei has divided the architectural community. Peter Cachola Schmal, Director of Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt explains why it is successful.

For the Stuttgart Restaurant “Enso Sushi und Grill” DIA – Dittel Architekten serve up Japanese restraint coupled with European seating.

Durlum illumination and ceiling elements create vibrant spaces.

North Italian architects Bergmeister Wolf have extended a house on Lake Garda with a simple and yet spectacular annex.

Matter Design and FR|SCH have designed a sophisticated architectural play structure for a place with special architectural significance.

For their cultural project "Allmeinde Commengrounds" Katia und Gerold Schneider rebuild an old stable building. There they show currently the subtle photographs taken by Walter Niedermayr.

The curators for the German contribution of "Unbuilding Walls" at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice have been announced: Graft Architects and Marianne Birthler.

A scoop of refinement: Nendo has developed a dispenser for powdered soy sauce for a restaurant in Kyoto.

Note Design Studio presents its first Building: the “Villa Esker”.

A few contradictions on “Good Form”. A column by Michael Erlhoff.

Hans Lensvelt happened upon it at a workshop held by Atelier van Lieshout. And now it has gone into production: The “AVL Lazy Modernist” is a reclining armchair and thoroughly modern.

Swedish fashion label Acne Studios has given its new stores a signature look in stainless steel. The store in Milan is a bit of an exception.

Jongha Choi has designed seating that when folded up can be hung like a print on the wall.

Insights on mystified outlooks. A column by Michael Erlhoff.

Designer Alfredo Häberli has created a sample house in the Allgäu region as the symbol of a changed aesthetic of the home. It shows that it is well worthwhile trying to reconcile design and ecology anew.

What bored literary critics, is something architects to this day love and praise: Uwe Bresan sheds light on the exciting history of the reception of Adalbert Stifter’s Biedermeier novel “Indian Summer” and the Rosenhaus described in it.

Design studio “Form us with love” has created a new version of the wristwatch model for TID Watches.

The store furnishings of Berlin-based architecture studio Gonzalez Haase break with conventions. This is demonstrated by a pop-up store for Birkenstock and is the talk of the town – even in Parisian haute couture circles.

Alfredo Häberli insists on perfect detailing even in the bathroom of his “Haussicht” concept house – in the shape of Dallmer’s “CeraWall Individual Duo”.

C4sun has outfitted the roof terrace of the “Cologne Golf Club” with an intelligent sun-sail system.

A good dozen high-rises are set to be built in Frankfurt/Main over the next five years. An overview of the high-rise architecture of tomorrow: some of it exciting or strident, some less so.