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.

C.F. Møller Architects chose Petersen Tegl bricks for the façade of a student dorm.

The "Komorebi" prototype luminaire imitates the poetry of sunlight in the middle of places where the sun never shines.

Tile manufacturer Mosa has teamed up with young designers in its home town of Maastricht to give some of the sanitary rooms in the in-district of Wyck a makeover – with surprising results.

On the edge of a national park near Barcelona project developer and gallery owner Christian Bourdais has teamed up with 15 architects to build 15 holiday homes that he believes will revolutionize residential living. Florian Heilmeyer met him and asked how this is going to evolve.

It’s easy to fall into the trap of only judging a building by its façade. Especially if it is as eye-catching as "Silo" in Copenhagen, designed by Cobe Architects.

Concrete in a completely new guise: In Rome, Konstantin Grcic has launched the "Magiliana Project" in dialogue with Pier Luigi Nervi.

Architect Walter Segal developed a system that enabled you to design your own home and indeed even build it yourself. The result was two neighborhoods in south London that precisely in an age of housing shortages certainly bear revisiting.

Take a Swedish hotel group, a Swedish architect and a location in Denmark’s design capital of Copenhagen – and you get a Hyggetempel.

The “Together!” exhibition at Vitra Design Museum campaigns for a common space with successful examples of a new architecture of community.

Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten have won the competition for the new “Hochhaus am Europaplatz" (High-Rise on Europaplatz) in Berlin. Their proposal centers on an ingenious and yet seemingly straightforward façade consisting of glass and ceramic rods.

Everybody is talking about sustainable production. Camira has been practicing it for years. The British textile manufacturer makes fabrics from stinging nettles, hemp and jute and is a great champion of recycling.

In the form of “Noma” in Copenhagen, entrepreneur Thorsten Schmidt and star chef René Redzepi revolutionized cutting-edge restauranteering. And now they’ve teamed up with Norway’s highly successful Snøhetta architects for the next project, the “Barr”.

He forever stood in the shadow of his predecessor Walter Gropius and his successor Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Now two key buildings by Hannes Meyer have become part of the World Cultural Heritage. “At long last!”, declares Philipp Oswalt.

Design from Poland? Is not known by everyone. But it's absolutely worthwhile to look at the hustle and bustle of the local scene. So follow us on our tour to Gdynia, Gdansk and Warsaw to the hotspots and interesting heads of the Polish design.

In retrospect everything looks clearer. A column by Michael Erlhoff.

The Qvest boutique hotel combined for a photoshooting neo-Gothic architecture with Richard Neutra products from VS Möbel.

The Galerie Kreo in London is showing a selection of works by Hella Jongerius – colorful – in the truest sense of the word.

This encyclopedia of forgotten sports brings together any number of bizarre and quite horrific pursuits. Anyone who has read the book will view people and sports in a different light.

Whether it’s for premium loudspeakers, SUVs or classic sneakers – the fabrics from Danish textile label Kvadrat are ever more frequently a sales argument for luxury products.

Designer Simon Husslein and entrepreneur Pierre Nobs want to stir things up on the watch market with their newly founded company “Bólido”.

Its superb acoustics make the Roman amphitheater in Verona an ideal venue for operas and concerts. Were it not for the rain. Schlaich Bergermann Partner together with GMP Architekten have now devised an extremely smart and mobile roof structure to keep out bad weather.

The Westin Hotel in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie is pitch-perfect with Villeroy & Boch products.

Alfred Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson are celebrated as “pioneers of the Bauhaus” at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld.

The patio of a purist villa morphs on request into a world of a cool pool – thanks also to Mosa tiles.

DIY superstores, furniture stores, fast-food restaurants. In commercial zones, the horrendous lurks. Can things be done differently? Here are five current examples.

When all the traditional criteria are evoked. A column by Michael Erlhoff.

Architect and designer Jean-Philippe Nuel lends the “Les Cures Marines” hotel a touch of striking elegance with furniture by Ligne Roset.