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In this monthly format, we bring you the must-see projects and articles you may have missed over the last four weeks on Architonic. Featured in October: architecture that reinvents itself, the future of materials and spaces to cosy up in during the

In this monthly format, we bring you the must-see projects and articles you may have missed over the last four weeks on Architonic. Featured in September: organic shapes, interiors that reflect their surroundings and playful public spaces.

Collecting samples for a project can present a huge time loss for design professionals. To solve this, Swatchbox is out on a mission to help design professionals around the world, by offering a curated selection of interior and exterior samples from

More than 90 per cent of Rockfon’s acoustic solutions are Cradle-to-Cradle Certified® at both Bronze and Silver level, and have reached Gold level in the product-circularity category. Watch the video to find out more...

On behalf of Domotex, we took a look the carpet market and conducted a series of trend analyses.

The analysis of our daily users' behaviour gives us an insight into developments in the architecture and design markets, which we would like to share with our community.

The analysis of our daily users' behaviour gives us an insight into developments in the architecture and design markets, which we would like to share with our community.

Architonic has teamed up with Bo Bedre, Denmark's number-one interiors magazine, adding new value to the Scandinavian brand's exclusive editorial content with an integrated product data cloud.

They do it better up north.

With the Salone del Mobile Milano fast approaching, there's no better time to reveal the premier league of creative minds that shape the design world today.

The most popular manufacturers in the bathroom, bathroom fittings, bathroom floors and surface areas.

With the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair set to open its doors to visitors of its 2017 edition, we've identified the Top 10 most-popular free-standing lights on architonic.com from SFF 2017 exhibitors.

For the 2017 edition of the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, we've identified the Top 10 most-popular new chairs on architonic.com from SFF 2017 exhibitors.

With Maison&Objet Paris opening its doors next week, what better time to take a look at the most-listed French brands across Architonic Virtual Showrooms?

For imm cologne 2017, we have identified the Top 10 most-popular drinks cabinets on architonic.com from imm cologne 2017 exhibitors.

With Heimtextil 2017 fast approaching, Architonic has identified the Top 20 most-popular black curtain materials on architonic.com from Heimtextil exhibitors.

With BAU 2017 around the corner, Architonic has identified the Top 10 most-popular glass doors on architonic.com from BAU 2017 exhibitors.

For Orgatec 2016, we have identified the top 10 most popular lounge chairs on architonic.com from Orgatec 2016 exhibitors.

On the occasion of the Cersaie in Bologna, 26–30 September 2016, we are continuing our Architonic Trend Analysis series and introducing the top brands in the industry to you here.

To mark this year's edition of the London Design Festival, we've compiled – as part of our ongoing Architonic Trend Analysis series – a Top 20 listing of UK-based brands and designers.

To mark the September edition of Maison&Objet in Paris, which runs from 2 to 6 September, we reveal our latest Architonic ranking – the Top 20 designers and brands based in France, as searched for actively on architonic.com.

Two authorities on products, interiors, design and architecture join forces to take the global lead in product search, a significant new partnership.

Founded in 2005 by Luis Calabuig, María Mengual and Ana Segovia, the comprehensive design agency Odosdesign focuses on product design and visual strategy.

Ranging from living legends to young talents who are already having an impact on the market: Architonic’s new Top 200 Designers ranking foregrounds the most popular designers and architects that users of architonic.com have actively searched for

On the occasion of the Light+Building 2016 in Frankfurt, taking place from March 13-18th, we are following up with Architonic’s ranking of the Top Brands, this time drawing special attention to the big hitters when it comes to Lighting Brands.

Architonic continuously checks the pulse of the markets. Our team visited the key trade shows and design events this autumn to meet the top design brands.

The end of the year is a good time to look back and reflect on important trends and developments. Our ongoing Architonic Trend Analysis series has collected traffic information over the course of 2015 in order to offer you valuable insights into the

Unveiled at this year's edition of the London Design Festival, our latest slice of Architonic Trend Analysis reveals the big hitters when it comes to home furniture.

Architonic was in Paris last weekend for MAISON&OBJET, the major trade fair dedicated to lifestyle, decoration and design. As a long-term partner and friend of MAISON&OBJET, Architonic is happy to present the highlights of the show. See a

Wer kennt sie nicht, die weisse Margerite, die in der Schweiz an vielen Bauzäunen blüht. Das Logo des führenden Bau- und Baudienstleistungsunternehmens Implenia findet sich in den grossen Städten, genauso wie in den tiefsten Bergtälern. Das mag

As part of the TEXTILED SPACES exhibition curated by Architonic on the occasion of Techtextil, photographer Deidi von Schaewen provided an insight into architectural ephemera.

Our new Architonic Trend Analysis series is anything but immaterial. Hence our look at materials and their relative popularity – by active text-search on architonic.com – over the past three years.

A killer whale, an owl and an armadillo were among the creatures that inspired a collection of furniture and products presented by Lotte Chemical Deutschland at the recent London Design Festival to demonstrate the versatility of its STARON®

Das kleine, aber feine Label „Hübscher Velo“ aus Zürich bereichert seit einem Jahr den Fahrradmarkt. Hinter der jungen Marke steht der erfahrene Fahrradexperte Christian Hübscher. Wie die hochwertigen Holzmöbel seines Bruders Beat vom Label

Plugging in to Belgrade Design Week means a number of things. A high-calibre line-up of international speakers. Inspiring conversations and encounters. And a lot of parties. The Serbian capital shows how it’s done.

Architonic has been invited to partner up with Field Trip, Google’s location-experience app that alerts you to interesting stuff in your general vicinity. Smartphone users will now be able to locate the best architectural projects nearby –

Axor, Hansgrohe's premium brand of mixers and showers, is developing alternative visions for the bathroom as a living space. Philippe Grohe, the creative mind behind Axor for the last 20 years, has invited the Swedish design trio Front and the

If there's one hotel that really gets to grips with its physical context, it's got to be The Standard, High Line NYC, which, straddling Manhattan's newest public park – the repurposed former elevated railroad, the High Line – creates a new and

"It is our aim to provide readers and the market with an efficient and high-quality environment for research, inspiration and communication. To this end, Architonic and Designboom are a perfect match because they complement each other both in terms

FluidSolids® is a composite material consisting of renewable natural raw materials. It is made up of fibre, filling materials and a binding agent. All of these materials are generated as industrial waste in the processing of renewable raw materials.

Mit der Eröffnung des Kvadrat Showrooms in Zürich präsentiert sich der führende dänische Anbieter von Textilien und Textilprodukten für die Innenausstattung in seiner weltweit zwanzigsten Dependance.

Your guides to the best exhibitors and products, selected for you by our team of architects and designers

The style of Impuls is primarily a contrast between black and white as well as gentleness and clarity. Neutral oak and chestnut colours of the worktop are balanced by the contrasting colours of the desk frame. Cabinets in the appropriate finish

We associate it with Louis XVI, art nouveau furniture and the wall decorations of clubhouses, but when we talk about it we are generally referring to something quite different. Marquetry, otherwise known as inlay work, does not generate a positive

The respected online lighting-design portal migrates to www.architonic.com

With two new design-savvy cities – Hamburg and Copenhagen – being added to the international blickfang calendar, there's all the more reason to visit the design fair with a difference.

Welche Form hat der Gegenstand, der uns das JETZT zeigt? Wie sind die Dinge beschaffen, die uns in diesem Moment umgeben? Welche Schlüsse lassen die uns umgebenden gestalteten Dinge auf unsere Zeit, unseren sozialen Status zu? Und wieweit werden

Architonic was delighted to join a line-up of big-name speakers at this year's Belgrade Design Week, the design conference and festival that marries top-notch thinking with big-hearted hospitality. Among those taking to the stage to present their

ISH Frankfurt is the number-one international trade fair for the 'bathroom experience' (as its marketing blurb puts it). Architonic hit the ground running at the 2011 edition to capture on film the best of the products on show, together with an

Veranstaltung von plan A in Kooperation mit dem Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln

If it's April, it must be Milan – the largest international design fair, which annually attracts over 300,000 professional and public visitors from around the globe. Some describe it as inspirational. Others as a logistical nightmare. Here's what

ARCH+ features 4: ifau, Jesko Fezer und Heide & von Beckerath

No design fair does cool design with a laid-back atmosphere as well as the Stockholm Furniture Fair. And the 2011 edition of the Nordic design fest was just as cool and just as laid-back as ever. Here are some of the highlights.

The 2011 spring fair season kicked off with the leading international fair for architecture, materials and systems – BAU Munich. Here are some of the highlights from the show, whose principal focus, this year, was on sustainability.

With a lot of talk of this year's imm cologne regaining much of its former glory, Architonic was on the ground at the international design fair, scouting for the best new products and talking to the some of the industry's key movers and shakers –

Over 60,000 people visited the biennial Orgatec trade fair in Cologne this year, the leading event of its kind specialising in design for the office and work environments. With over 600 exhibitors, there was a lot to see. If you weren't there, fear

If any fair is going to give Milan a run for its money in terms of a passion for high-end design and downright coolness, it's Belgian design biennale Interieur. In case you weren't there – or if you were, but can't get too much of a good thing –

On the 03 September 2010, a ceremony was held to mark the completion of the 4,000-square-metre extension to the premises of textile editors, Nya Nordiska, in Dannenberg in Lower Saxony. Berlin architect Volker Staab was responsible for the design of

The former home of the Thonet brothers, Claus, Peter and Philipp, a period, half-timbered house built in 1889, has been turned into an elegant, modern showroom.

Walter Knoll goes east. Together with its specialist dealer Beijing Higher, the company is opening a new mono-brand showroom in Beijing.

The leading Italian manufactuer Tacchini has reissued two of design legend Achille Castiglioni's striking designs – the 'Sancarlo' armchair and sofa, originally produced by Driade, and the 1958 'Babela' armchair, created with his brother Pier

“Ted Muehling Selects: Lobmeyr Glass from the Permanent Collection” is the 10th installment in an exhibition series devoted to showing rotations of Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum’s permanent collection. The exhibition celebrates the

The world's leading trade fair for architecture and technology, Light+Building boasts over 2,000 exhibitors, showing their latest products and innovations. Architonic reports from this always exciting, future-oriented industry gathering.

Another year, another Milan – the biggest and most attended design fair internationally. The trend continues for manufacturers to wait until the Salone del Mobile to launch their novelties, rather than showing them for the first time elsewhere.

Although not as big as Milan or Cologne, the Stockholm Furniture Fair punches well above its weight. The advantage of an event like Stockholm is that it allows visitors the space and time to really get to grips with the products on show and to engage

Cologne, the original international design fair, had for a while become eclipsed by the behemoth that is the Milan Salone del Mobile. But it's fought back, increasing the international profile of its exhibitors and partnering up with some exciting

The ISH is the leading international trade fair for innovative bathroom design, energy-efficient heating and air-conditioning technology. Architonic offers you video highlights from the 2009 showcase.

The 2009 Milan Salone del Mobile saw a downturn in visitors – although anyone on the ground at the absolutely heaving fair wouldn't have noticed, to be honest. The Architonic team was there, as ever, to seek out the best new products and trends,

Contemporary Slovak architecture has multiple layers of values and generations. In spite of the many annual prizes and awards, there are only a few exceptional architectural works.

Bedingt durch die Kriegszerstörungen des Zweiten Weltkrieges fehlten Ende der 40er Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts in der jungen Bundesrepublik Deutschland noch immer mindestens 5 Millionen Wohnungen.

Vom 1. bis 11. Oktober zieht die dritte Vienna Design Week erneut Stars der internationalen Designszene und vielversprechende Newcomer nach Wien.

Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau and Klassik Stiftung Weimar present a combined exhibition.

Trends, Redevelopment, Habitat und Aussichten - zentrale Themen in der Konferenz zur Architekturgalerie auf der Cersaie 2009

Founded in 2009 by the School of Arts, Culture and Environment at the University of Edinburgh the Journal Architecture & provides a platform for innovative ideas in design and research practices.

Hosted by the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), the biennial Icograda World Design Congress will be held in Beijing, China for the first time.

Best Tall Building 2009 in the Asia and Australia category by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

The proposal for the Macedonia Fight Museum by the Swedish architects Joakim Kaminsky and Fredrik Kjellgren consists of a chronological walk through Macedonian history, covered in the soft light filtrated by Macedonian marble.

Ein Rückblick in die Welt es innovativen, eigenwilligen Schweizer Gestalters

The program: a house. Our concept: universal need for shelter. Solution: a void.

Granted aesthetic planning permission in Amsterdam North, The Matchbox is a blend of artistic, creative and commercial spaces tailored to suit this artistic quarter.

The controversial Tsunami Museum in Aceh will come to represent a fitting place for reflection but at its opening last week a row over the 700 families still to be re-housed overshadowed the event.

The Hilton Manchester Deansgate Hotel receives its guests in exceptionally styled, avant-garde rooms in the very heart of Manchester. The design highlights of the rooms are, however, the bathrooms.

It looks like open space, but behind movable walls, this tiny apartment holds surprises.

All design students or designers can take part of this edition, without age limitation.

Dreipunkt has launched its new brand store in the Kranhaus Mitte planned by Bothe Richter Teherani in Cologne.

The new RELAXX Sport Centre ar Bratislava enters the rush locality, harmonizes and directs the noise and chaos. This house is like a sculpture symbolizing the beauty of restlessness and the poetics of velocity.

This year's "Architecture and Office XXL" innovation prize has been won by the firm of REC Bauelemente GmbH.

Bisazza opens its first flagship store in Antwerp on 4 December

'Max Bill 100' is the title of an exhibition at 'Haus Konstruktiv' in Zurich (until 22.3.09) dedicated to the work of Max Bill, the internationally known artist, architect and product designer. On 22 December 2008 Bill would have been 100 years old,

This newly completed sports and leisure complex has a distinctive, sculptural quality, further enhanced by the building’s essential transparency.

Are we on the threshold of a change of direction in the design field?

THOMAS SMALL is an accomplished cook, so it’s important for him to try new and exotic ingredients every now and then. When it came to the construction of his eco-friendly house, that’s exactly what his architects gave him.

The British designer James Irvine has created a height-adjustable bar stool for Thonet, which impresses with its simple elegance. Its curved foot support is in line with the company's tubular steel tradition, which goes right back to the Bauhaus

The collapse of Adolf Hitler's tausendjähriges 'Reich' led to a new world order, with on the one side the USA and NATO, which came into being in 1949, facing their counterpart in the form of the USSR and its alliance of Warsaw Pact states, an

For the future hotel showcase room -part of the Inhaus2 research project- the Fraunhofer IAO (Institute for Work Organisation) approached LAVA to become a project partner responsible for the design and realisation.

A shared sales week with customer and friends of LHCB by Jordi Torres

In 2006 Net’n'Nest was presented by Vitra at the Orgatec exhibition in Cologne as a pioneering solution to the open plan office, which had until then had the highly negative image, at least in Europe. Net’n'Nest enables the requirements of

'Alone' by Pallucco is a coat hook that casts an eye at the concept of a wall light. Its clear-cut, linear design is enhanced at the rear by an opal finish ring that.

Twisted geometry by Jürgen Mayer H.: Villa MRMM near Ludwigsburg, Germany

Which designers are accessed most frequently at Architonic.com? To find out we have extracted the statistics for all the direct accessing of designers.

Architonic will monthly draw ten people to win one of the limited edition Collector´s Boxes, containing the three most recent Architonic Flip Books.

Romanian artist Alex Dragulescu creates artwork blending traditional art and new media.

Written by Maya Jordan, Photos by Nelson Kon and Fran Parente

We are architects, and during the last few years we have been reading and commenting on several architectural websites. As many of you do, we love to watch, learn and discuss about architecture online.

The photos are all by Gigi Cifali, who originally trained as a topographer, from a series called "Absence of Water." The images document the disused pools of London.

Ab sofort gibt es ein deutsches Zertifizierungssystem, das die Nachhaltigkeit von Gebäuden bewertet.

The plan extends our research into the notion of ‘abstract verandah’ to include a barcode motif in the plan. A series of discrete spaces, organised in a way to suit the client’s particular requirements, results in a coded arrangement that is

A solo exhibition of the artist and designer Andreas Christen at Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, 29 May to 3 August 2008

The electric light bulb has had its day. Ecological and energy-efficient illuminants such as LEDs or OLEDs are becoming more and more attractive to the consume.

Flare is a pneumatic building facade system, manufactured by WHITEvoid. The system consists of metal flake bodies.

Exhibitions and installations in Milan during the Salone del Mobile 2008

Few exhibitors risk coming to Milan without some new products to show off. And even if not all of these new creations make it all the way to the production stage, they are still a thermometer for trends, vitality and differentiation within the

Besides its great architectural projects, the Ateliers Jean Nouvel created various furniture designs for several renowned international manufacturers.

The organic parkway by Plan B Arquitectos and JPRCR Arquitectos

Apocalyptic sentiments. The abandoned futuristic housing complex San Zhi is situated close to the Taiwanese capital and was planned in the early 80s.

The poetic mirror serie by Jean-Marie Massaud für Glas Italia

To mark its fifth anniversary, Architonic presented its Concept Space I – the 'Arctic Lounge' – at imm cologne 2008. Its designers, architects Professsor Tobias Wallisser and Chris Bosse, delivered an interior landscape inspired by polar