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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.

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

The concrete structure, which at first sight looks rather awkward and monumental, reveals itself at a closer look as a walk-in sculpture which.

Jaime Hayón’s work has transcended the barriers between two worlds that have always been apart: art and design.

U-Bahnhöfe der klassischen Moderne (Underground stations in the classical modern style)

On the death of Hannes Wettstein (1958-2008) by Caspar Schärer

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.

The first individual exhibition by the Swiss designer Alfredo Häberli at the Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich. From June 27 - September 21

Last Saturday the award ceremony for the 'Traffic Design Competition' took place for the first time. More than 100 participants from 16 cities in the Middle East and northern Africa were judged by a jury of renown experts.

Trioli is a versatile design by Eero Aarnio. It’s a chair for toddlers, and, turned upside-down, it becomes a chair with a higher seat for bigger children.

The international Jury of the XXI edition of the ADI Compasso d’Oro, has awarded the prize to the Mix lamp designed by Alberto Meda and Paolo Rizzatto.

Inspired by the shape of water in endless motion, The Blue Planet is shaped as a great whirlpool. The new Denmark’s Aquarium is situated

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

The Baumraum team, which is made up of architects, landscape designers, innovative craftsmen and tree experts, plans modern tree house designs which are constructed to the individual specifications of the client.

Christine Killory and Rene Davids examine the influence on architecture of high-tech engineering on the basis of 25 buildings erected in the USA.

For the third time international design and art galleries are presenting much sought-after design classics and exclusive products as part of the 'Design Miami' exhibition at the Art Basel fair.

The Belgian designer Xavier Lust has won international recognition with his ingeniously crafted designs. Since achieving his big breakthrough with 'le banc' ten years ago he has produced designs for well-known manufacturers such as MDF Italia,

The British star architect Zaha Hadid has chosen glass fibre reinforced concrete from the Austrian company Rieder to envelope the 275 meters long „Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion“, the new symbol of the Expo 2008 in the northern Spanish Zaragoza.

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

This year, as in 2006, it plunges in the world of architecture cooperating and panelling the exhibition spaces with design and technology thanks to its radiant and sound-deadening systems.

The design for a mixed-use development on the shores of Straume, near Bergen

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

Sabine Seymour, who among other things lectures at the Parsons New School for Design, New York, has put together a collection of products and materials which looks at the close interlinking of fashion, design, technology and science.

The time has finally come and the Indian elephants in the Copenhagen zoo have finally taken up residence in their new home. Compared with the old enclosure.

Frederic Chaubin, photographer and chief editor of the French magazine Citizen K, is searching for places, that have a story to tell and whose unique character he can document with his camera.

The master project by Fredrik Färg initially suggests designs with a strong textile orientation. However, when you take a closer look at the.

Création Baumann to award prizes for innovative projects using GECKO

The architects Blocher Blocher Partners, who specialise in corporate architecture, have developed this by converting the texture of the moss to an abstract motif and then vectorising it.

The Panamá collection is an outdoor lighting system that consists of two column heights and a wall bracket.

Swimming bath architecture has recently been making a comeback and is now manifesting itself in entirely new contexts.

This year's European Championships, which are taking place at four venues each in Switzerland and Austria, have also been the occasion for the development or redevelopment of a number of stadiums.

The diplomands of the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste present their final projects

The Big Apple – a metropolis for the arts and culture. For a long time one wondered, that New York had nothing more to offer than the, compared to European standards, rather small furniture fair. But.

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.

It's an unusual thing to find a book on architecture with hardly any pictures, almost total reliance on text and taking as its subject a series of crucial questions relating to 31 buzzwords.

Such a stylish and lovingly designed facility as Korea's aA Design Museum can probably only be created if a real enthusiast is involved.

The interplay between graphic art and architecture is a discipline in itself. Visitor orientation and guidance systems require a detailed analysis of the architecture of the building, and the operational and movement sequences of the building's

A simple cord becomes a complex shape, a line circumscribes a space – furniture and lamps with laced seats or lampshades originated in the nineteen-fifties, and today some of these constructivist pieces have attained cult status.

On 24th April Busk + Herzog were awarded the ”Furniture Prize 2008” at the Danish Museum of Art and Design in Copenhagen by a unanimous jury and the most esteemed representatives of the furniture industry in Denmark.

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

Because our attention is fully focussed on new products and old acquaintances we frequently overlook the architecture of the stands themselves, which is often of high quality and great elaboration.

It's not just because of its dominant architecture – the Palazzo dell’Arte was designed early in the Thirties by Giovanni Muzio– but also because of its historic past that the Triennale has, for many years, been an especially popular location

“The LED is the light source of the future” is the credo of the Nimbus Group, which is presenting itself at this year’s “Light + Building” fair in Frankfurt with an extensive and powerful LED range based on LED.next technology.

This year the Salone Satellite was once more on show in its own pavilion. Set a little apart from the general hustle of the fair, it welcomed visitors.

Our selection of new products displayed at the Stockholm Furniture Fair

Olympic Games in China are dominating the headlines just as much as reports about the current spectacular major projects of thel architectural stars.

Since 2004 Øystein Austad and Jonas Ravlo Stokke have formed the design team StokkeAustad, which is based in Oslo and just opened their design studio.

“Urban Romanticism” is the motto of the Luminale 08 marathon. Many openings will already take place on April 5th.

Sprayed-on metal skin for seamless and geometrically complex metal surfaces

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

The architect Keiichito Sako was one of the first to recognise the potential for his architecture in the growing giant China. 2004 he opened his studio.

The organic parkway by Plan B Arquitectos and JPRCR Arquitectos

In the autumn of 2005 the Lower Ninth Ward, a multi-cultural precinct in the east of New Orleans, was flattened by the force of the hurricane Katrina.

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

Thom Mayne's studio Morphosis wins the Zumtobel Group Award for sustainable architecture for its Federal Building in San Francisco

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

Our selection of results of the famous wallpaper competition

Places, products, authors, museum, collections, characters, chronicle, glossary

The tenth MATERIALICA in Munich focused specifically on design. For the fifth time the fair presented the Materialica Design + Technology Award to outstanding and innovative performance in the fields of design or engineering.

Ingrid Buron and Gregory Namberger "export" the spirit of Berlin to the island of Rügen

Our selection of new products displayed at the imm cologne 2008

Innovative materials inspire designers and architects to create ever new products and applications. This was demonstrated at the end of 2007, when the latest developments in the field of new production and surfacing materials were presented at two

With the help of digital technologies it is possible to create all forms imaginable, whilst streamlining the design process from concept to fabrication.

A few kilometres to the north of Swedens capital Stockholm, in a picturesque house which lies on the former hunting grounds of the kings of Sweden.

The designer Alexis Oehler works in the heart of Berlin's Kreuzberg district, but the romantic impression given by his workshop is contradicted by the hardness and roughness of his preferred material, which normally tends to evoke associations of

An unusual lighting solution for an unusual mountain railway

Young designer present their work at the Stockholm Furniture Fair

The very young swedish company Wästberg launches its first collection

For 'Meuble Paris' fair and pursuing its annual Creation Assistance programme, VIA has presented the Carte Blanche grant awarded to designer Frechin.

Sunday before last this year's imm cologne closed its doors after receiving 107,000 visitors from 103 countries–statistics which speak for themselves.

The 'Professorship Project' is the programme at the Karlsruhe College of Design under which known designers are invited to become visiting professors.

Engelbrechts Furniture has just taken over the production and distribution of the internationally renowned Kevi chair and stool series, created by the Danish designer Jørgen Rasmussen.

A few furniture parts, half done prototypes in the middle of the room – the studio of designer Eric Degenhardt seems like a well sorted working space.

At the imm cologne we our fifth anniversary and we had a big party at the Architonic Lounge and later at the SIDIspot. Thanks everybody who joined us.

This year, too, the imm cologne will provide lots of opportunities to discover young design talent and discover fresh ideas. Here a few suggestions.

The annual Stockholm Furniture Fair, which takes place from 6 - 10 February, is enjoying ever greater popularity with both manufacturers and designers.

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

For more than ten years the very successful design studio of Luke Pearson and Tom Lloyd has been located in one of Shoreditch's typical small alleys.

The armchair by Sacco, Paolini and Teodoro is one of the most meaningful example of design product able to embody an "era", while "contaminating" the living conventions that apparently look very formal.

The cooperation between BASF, industrial designer Konstantin Grcic and Italian furniture manufacturer Plank is a result of the Universal Days workshop.

The younger generation of japanese architects, including Kengo Kuma, who was born in 1954, has taken a new directions, by using more natural materials.

At that time the Casala furniture company, which was founded in 1917, was one of the leading manufacturers in Germany. New now is the product Casalino.

Brazilian design can look back on a long history. And although it was initially strongly influenced by European design ideas, it has since developed.

The European Ceramic Workcenter (.ekwc) in the Netherlands regards itself as an international workshop facility and provides designers, artists and architects with the opportunity to carry out technical and artistic experiments using ceramics and

The 26-year old, who does not wish to reveal his real name, presented his poetic furniture and object designs at 100%Design under his 'Nosigner' label.

Due to new processing methods bamboo materials, such as bamboo veneer or Plyboo (in other words bamboo plywood) have become important materials for the furniture industry. And the good thing is that it is now possible to overcome the musty colonial