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COVID-19 and spatial perception: The first digital Vitra Summit addresses the ramifications of the crisis for architecture and design.

Six architecture studios have developed installations for the seventh “Ampelphase” exhibition that offer drivers waiting at the traffic lights entirely new insights into the Vitra Showroom in Frankfurt/Main.

Working from home – a convenient alternative in today’s networked age. Working at the dinner table or cram heavy-duty desks is not necessary – considering the abundance of small, delicate, readily movable and well-designed alternatives. We present the best choices.

Are you still living or already working? Since the launch of the Internet we are not only available more or less everywhere online, but the line dividing work and living has become increasingly blurred. At least in some areas. Moreover, fixed office and work structures are increasingly dissolving. What does this mean for the contemporary office? How has it developed? Its history holds the one or other surprise in store.

With the Shiroiya Hotel, Sou Fujimoto Architects have succeeded in producing a fascinating combination of an old building and a conversion, design, architecture and art. Michele de Lucchi, Jasper Morrison, Leandro Erlich and Sou Fujimoto have each designed one of the rooms.

Stylepark moderates the new podcast "NEW WORK! 9 TO LIFE?" by Gärtner Internationale Möbel.

Stylepark moderates the new podcast "NEW WORK! 9 TO LIFE?" by Gärtner Internationale Möbel.

Stylepark moderates the new podcast "NEW WORK! 9 TO LIFE?" by Gärtner Internationale Möbel.

Stylepark presents the new podcast "NEW WORK! 9 TO LIFE?" by Gärtner Internationale Möbel.

Stylepark presents the new podcast "NEW WORK! 9 TO LIFE?" by Gärtner Internationale Möbel.

British flexible workspace provider The Office Group is opening its first branch in Germany, “Kontorhaus Mitte” in Berlin. With this in mind, Studio Weiss–heiten has provided the office floors in the Kleihues-Karree with a harmonious update.

Located on the shores of Lago d’Orta in the Piedmont, Casa Fantini offers a pleasant combination of elegance and slow-paced living.

With "EVO-C" for Vitra, Jasper Morrison translates the features of the classic tubular steel cantilever chair into polypropylene and gives it a new flexibility.

With seismographic precision and keen intuition, interior architects Susanne Brandherm and Sabine Krumrey are monitoring the changes taking shape in workplaces this year. And there’ll be no swift return to the old normal – because in their office too, things are now very different.

“New Work” – this rather vague catchphrase for the modern world of work actually poses crucial questions: How do we want to and how will we be able to work in the future?

Safe, hygienic, structured: how work environments can be adapted to suit the new normal.