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Europe remains the theme. Kem Koolhaas has recently presented a complex master plan for a European energy park in the North Sea.

Häuser shows an exclusive photo report on the villa in Pittsburgh

Even before the public will have the opportunity to view the new DEDON collections in the showrooms, the company's new products for 2009 have already received the »iF product design award 2009« no less than four times.

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.

Thonet furnishes the meeting and conference rooms at the Media Plaza of the 'Jaarbeurs' in Utrecht

Carpenters Workshop Gallery presents Sebastian Brajkovic's furniture series 'Lathe'.

A summing-up and stocktaking of the design of the first decade of the new millennium: So what is new, what can we expect and what will we want to have?.

In the form of a script Kristina Raderschad has put together a collection of annotated illustrations which deal with those aspects of our homes which do not normally form the highlights of books and magazines on home furnishing.

The Zumtobel Highlights Show has been kicked off on 2 September, which marked the beginning of a 23,000 kilometer journey for the product innovations.

creates Design Bar for Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair

FREEZE, a celebration in Anchorage Alaska of life in the north, brings together people from around the world to highlight the grace and grandeur of the north through conferences, performances and exhibitions.

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

Viewing platforms promise a very special kind of experience. However, in spite of the breathtaking views they provide, these spectacularly constructed platforms themselves are often not noticed.

Exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim / Berlin until 1.2.2009

In order to create centres along the way where the pilgrims can rest and pray the municipalities involved have commissioned eleven artists and architects to develop architectural solutions for this out-of-the-ordinary context.

Bisazza opens its first flagship store in Antwerp on 4 December

The »Possible Furniture« series plays with the perception of balance/unbalance and thereby questions the designer’s role.

Lesslamp is considered more a happening than a light: The user must release the light drilling or breaking the ceramic piece with a pickaxe.

'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,

Designed by Gramazio & Kohler, on view for the first time at the imm cologne 2009

An interview with Oskar Zieta, architect at the CAAD-professorship at ETH Zurich

Let's be honest, which of us has read the 'De architectura libri decem' ("Ten books about architecture") by Vitruvius, or even part of the work? Even though searching Google for 'Vitruvius' will produce no less than a staggering 3.6 million hits.

If not entirely forgotten, so far the oeuvre of the Lausanne architect Jean Tschumi has at least been known for the most part only to insiders. This is no accident, in that post-war modernism has suffered from the popularity of classical modernism

David Moser is product development manager of Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers

Two designers, one house renovation and twelve furniture designs

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

The introductory photo of this book says it all: two gentlemen are sitting, or rather lounging, in elegant armchairs, each with a glass of white wine in his hand, the bottle within easy reach in a wine cooler, and are chatting in an obviously good

For the fifth time Bene recently invited ten selected firms of architects and ten design studios to a creative dialogue. The seat shell of the Rondo chair by Bene represented the basic material and the question to participants was: how many ideas

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

The three-day event kicked off with an extensive aperitif on the gallery of the 'Villa Elisabeth' in Berlin, which then provided a wonderful background for an excellent dinner, stimulating conversations and interesting presentations.

As a result of diminishing resources and rising prices the age of oil is drawing to a close. Accordingly there is increasing interest in renewable raw materials as alternative sources.

B9 Architects design sustainable multi-family project with ArchiCAD

Jørn Utzon, one of the greatest architects of the past century, died last Saturday, 29.11.2008.

Stuart Kestenbaum is director of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

The annual event presents both well-established and young labels

Fresh Water Thanks to «No Man’s Land» for the Dead Sea Region

Industrially prefabricated and modular dwellings have long since established themselves, in the USA, in particular.

On 21 November the curtain went up for this year's exhibition, which is entitled "Fifty Fifty", a title which is intended to highlight the shared interdependence and responsibility of designers and manufacturers.

There are now a number of companies on the market which specialise in the development of micro wind turbines that enable individual power generation.

The Swiss designer Beat Karrer researches new processing methods of bio-degradable plastics

The light-emitting diode (LED), which we are all familiar with as an electronic signal or in the form of advertising and background lighting, has for some years now been conquering new areas of application. Its tremendous potential for energy savings

Ceramic tiles as wall decoration were brought to southern Europe by the Moors and the first European ceramics industry was to be found in the Roman Empire. It is therefore not surprising that the most important trade fair for the ceramics industry

Sustainability is both a commandment and a buzzword for our times. But what do we mean by sustainable design? Are sustainable production and sustainable marketing at all possible in a global market place? At this year’s Orgatec we discussed the

In 2015 the world's first carbon neutral city will be ready for occupation near Abu Dhabi. The main role here will be played by pedestrians.

The new land port of entry in Calais, Maine, is designed by Robert Siegel Architects

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.

In many countries there is a long tradition of living on the water, and even today many people feel the desire to live close to it. For them the solution is a houseboat or floating home, a boat which is anchored in a specific berth and is their

The world's first ecological disco opens in Rotterdam, Holland

Students from the University of Utah planning for and with families who live below the poverty line

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

Lichterloh deals in classic original art and furniture from the 20th century. Since 1990, Lichterloh has presented international and Austrian designs on its expansive premises near Vienna’s Museum Quarter.

Katrin Greiling currently lives and works as a designer in Dubai, where she constantly tours the city with her camera, recording in her photographs everyday life in this unique cosmopolitan metropolis within the Arab world. A world of contradictions.

The film derives its humorous scenes more from the impact which results when two worlds collide with each other.

Cordula Rau has collected the answers to this question given by 100 architects and designers, acquiring in the process an impressive collection of signatures.

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

Designers' Saturday in Langenthal – a former tip for insiders has become a major attraction

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.

CENTQUATRE is a place of artistic creation and production. Open to all forms of art, this 39,000 m² (419, 792 sq. feet) space is an original architectural whole in which art meets the public head-on.

Architecture succeeds again and again in taking our breath away with its spectacular forms, making us wish that we could take these works of art with us in our everyday lives instead of just admiring them where they stand. This wish will be fulfilled

Die aktuelle Sonderausstellung bei DOMIZIL Marc Stutzer AG in Basel zeigt die letzten Arbeiten, die Ettore Sottsass vor seinem Tod noch autorisiert hat: Die Spiegelserie ‚ Gli specchi di Dionisio’, produziert von Glas Italia.

Today’s garden architecture may be more playful and frivolous than ever, the new collection by Belgian architect and designer Vincent Van Duysen for Tribù goes resolutely its own way.

Until the end of last year Marc Krusin had spent ten years as head of the design department at Lissoni Associati. Now he concentrates on the work in his own studio.

Die Ausstellung gewährt Einblicke in das aktuelle Schweizer Schaffen in Gestaltungsbereichen.

When in 1981 Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager hit on the idea of converting a New York flophouse into a luxury hotel, the world was still a very different place.

At the moment the bathing ship in the East harbour of Berlin, one of Berlin's most attractive open-air pools, is being made ready for the winter.

The Akademie der Bildenden Künste München exhibits at the Designers´Saturday

Origami is an ancient Japanese art of paper folding. The goal of this art is to create a representation of an object.

R. Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Dwellings and Other Domestic Adventures

In the series "Conversations with ." published by the Princeton Architectural Press, which also includes conversations with Le Corbusier, Louis Khan and Rem Koolhaas, the latest addition is "Conversations with Mies van der Rohe".

Egg Designs do not adhere to any given formula of design, but rather approaches all projects with a common contemporary design solution.

Stefan Diez couldn't have conceived a more appropriate name for the multi-purpose chair which he has, over a development period of three years, designed for Wilkhahn, the German producer of office furniture.

With the Filo table the EOOS design team has conceived a table to match the success of the Filo office chair.

At this time of the year nature reveals itself in a variety of colours and the world of design seems to have adapted itself to the season, dazzling and disturbing us with the kind of forms and structures we become familiar with when we walk in the

The history of the shopping mall as we know it today began in the Nineteen Fifties. In Los Angeles Victor Gruen, an architect who had emigrated to the US from Austria, felt the lack of the traditional European city centre with its pedestrian

Like most LAVA projects the Schumacher Tower represents a form of architecture which integrates complex construction technology and novel digital design methods.

Lange Production feels very proud and honoured that they are able to present Grete Jalk’s best known pieces of furniture from 1963 – her moulded plywood chair – the GJ Chair – and the GJ Nesting Table.

The Joubert Park Project is an attempt at artistic intervention in the most difficult district in Johannesburg.

UNStudio builds at Meiji dori, a boulevard well known for luxury brand flagship stores

11. International architecture exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia

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

Retrospective 25 years of cooperation between Erik Jørgensen Møbelfabrik A/S with the Danish designteam Foersom & Hiort-Lorenzen

DreamHaus is a design game which uses architecture as the basis for the study of mathematics, technical planning and physics. It uses the possibility of displaying buildings as systems and enables players to experience architecture by manipulating

Neben Grün, Petrol und Anthrazit bestimmen Beerentöne auch 2009 die modische Farbpalette. Sessel und Sofa LUIS von KFF zeigen sich daher aktuell zum Herbst in den Trendfarben Lila und Pflaume.

HOK has commissioned Squint/Opera to produce a film about the stadium for the London Olympics in 2012.

An entire house over a number of floors in the heart of the city has been turned into a work of art – yes, it's obvious that we're in Berlin.

The traditional 'domain of the housewife', in which nowadays more and more men are to be found playing with high-tech equipment, has for some time now been a central place.

When artists design hotel rooms their focus is very different from that of the architect. Their curiosity, visions, objectives and their implementation are influenced by other factors than architectural ones.

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

It could easily have been a real flop - a period when Wall Street was in turmoil and in the UK the property market found itself in a state of meltdown was not the ideal time for 100%Design to take place in London.

'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.

schmidt hammer lassen architects win sports and leisure complex and overall plan

UNStudio was commissioned to draw up a concept for the new Louis Vuitton Flagship Store in Japan which would unite the modern and classic qualities of Louis Vuitton and express their essence in architectural form.

Zumtobel creates new lighting for Archaeological Institute of Zurich University

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

The exhibition of the London designer collective Okay Studio at the Aram Gallery

The impulse for the creation of 21_21 Design Sight originated during the Isamu Noguchi exhibition in New York. Designer Issey Miyake, architect Tadao Ando and sculptor Noguchi talked about the need for a place where Japanese design could be

The extension to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City is an impressive example of the use of translucent but opaque glass facades.

Buckminster Fuller’s work at the Whitney Museum of American Art

The danish manufacturer presents five one-of-a-kind installations of its furniture and lamps at the Copenhagen Furniture Festival

The official Verner Panton reference portal www.verner-panton.com goes online on 5.9.2008

An interview with Marianne Panton and Rina Troxler, Verner Pantons longtime assistant

Even if the influence of traditional Scandinavian furniture design on her work is unmistakable, Ditte Hammerstrøm's design is far removed from dry Nordic functionalism.

Imagine a museum, instead of travelling far to see it, will stand temporarly in your home town.

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

Cork enables innovative production methods and new ways of interaction with the environment. Widely praised as a pioneering force in green trends, this tactile and unconventional material.

The designers Patrik Fredrikson and Ian Stallard are known for their experimental creations. The form of this fibre-glass seating, for example, is created by the hardening of foam material.

The work of the swedish designers Linus Berlund und Mats Seitz

The functional features of REFLEX by Girsberger support the swivel chair's aesthetic appeal

The locations for the competitions in this summer's Olympic Games in China had to meet a range of criteria.

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

It's astonishing that two major designers implement the same idea in the same season. With both Martin Margiela and Hussein Chalayan, furniture was the dominant theme of the autumn / winter 2006 collection.

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

As Amy Hunting says herself, she tries to combine her work as an illustrator and her furniture designs in the best possible way. The result is her 'Patchwork Collection'. A successful composition of art and design.

He gives the impression of wanting to tidy everything up and clear away any unnecessary visual ballast. Meticulously and with surgical precision Richard Galpin breaks down the fine top layer of large-scale architectural photographs.

The former workers' district of Zurich is undergoing large-scale rehabilitation. After the renovation and conversion of a number of buildings such as the Volkshaus and the Hotel Rothaus, there are now further plans for a new development: an area of

When the computer of a colleague of mine crashed a few days ago in the middle of an image processing operation sized several gigabytes, his only response was a big smile.

An interview with the Italian architect and designer Michele De Lucchi

As if their indestructible presence wanted to make sure that we don't forget the past. As if they wanted to tell us that war is present everywhere – for many years now the bunkers.

'HansandFranz' is a name which couldn't be more German (apart from the 'and' instead of 'und'), and perhaps it's an omen of the fact that they would head in the direction of America – known of course as the land of unlimited possibilities.