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Fabrice Aeberhard and Christian Kaegi are two young industrial designers who have incorporated Swiss values in their work, producing design which is solid, unadorned and attractive.

Finesse of detail, shadows and light, mystery and beauty, coupled with a precision of gesture in production. The fragments of stone filigree adorning gothic cathedrals and Moor palaces have marked the history of architecture.

Last Monday, 3 August 2009, Charles Gwathmey, the American architect and co-founder of Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects (1969), died at the age of 71.

In areas of urban underprivilege and unrest, libraries can improve the quality of life. Based on the urban development model of Chicago, a library park has now sprung up in Medellín, the second-biggest city in Columbia.

Technology, nature and tradition are all reflected in the sculpture 'Memory', which will be on display at this year's South African art festival 'AfrikaBurn'.

29 May – 4 October 2009 at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen

The Nomiya restaurant is replacing the Hotel Everland on the roof of the Palais de Tokyo for one year. Designed by the artist Laurent Grasso, the glass cube is part of the 'Art Home' culinary project by the Palais de Tokyo and Electrolux.

Moroso, with Diesel, has created a collection of products with a relaxed and comfortable mood, taking its inspiration from an informal lifestyle concept and targeting consumers who like simple shapes yet at the same time seek a “modern” style

Refurbishing the Alice Tully Hall (built 1969) in the Licoln Center, New York, presented a unique challenge for the U.S. company 3form.

Herning Museum of Contemporary Art will open to the public on September 9, 2009 uniting three distinct cultural institutions: the Herning Center of the Arts, the MidWest Ensemble and the Socle du Monde.

Nina Levett's patterns and ornaments are based on conceptual, humorous ideas, her work is based on experiments with surfaces and materials.

The Design Museum London pays tribute to the astonishing architect

ComplexCity is an exploration to find a concealed aesthetic by using the pattern formed by the city's roads, which have been growing and evolving randomly through time.

A research project at the Institute for Theory at Zurich's University of the Arts looks at current furniture works involving design and art.

Aaron Bondaroff and Al Moran's O.H.W.O.W. invades Athens and presents the 'Greasy Spoon pop-up shop' designed by Rafael de Cardenas of Architecture at Large.

For 155 Cumberland Quadrangle Architects Limited deservedly won the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s (RAIC) Award of Excellence for Innovation in Architecture.

With its wiener.architektur.zitate the wiener.manschettenknopf.linie is presenting a new edition which is based on Vienna's architecture and architectural history.

Ever since the indiscriminate granting of sub-prime loans led to a crisis on the US housing market the new fascination for colour has spread to the private home. In times of difficulty the trend towards excessive use of colour has always tended to

With his playful design Alain Gilles creates entire worlds which are conspicuous for their colour. As the product of a conscious exploration of the possible multiple personalities of an individual object, Gilles has now created a piece of furniture

“We have to think big”, said President Sarkozy on 30 April 2009 at the opening of the exhibition at the Palais de Chaillot, where ten of thirty-seven future models for the re-design of Paris are on display.

See our first selection of novelties from this year´s Salone del Mobile. More will follow.

Whereas on previous occasions Milan always proved to be a festival of temporary architecture, this year we had to look hard for innovative concepts.

Nya Nordiska, a leading international textile company based in Dannenberg, North Germany, whose early stages were strongly influenced by Scandinavian design, recently received a highly unusual enquiry from the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg.

«My five favourite things at the Stockholm Furniture Fair» - selected by Fredrik Färg

Sweet Hope is a curtain fabric, designed by the acclaimed Japanese designer Akira Minagawa. Ideal for offices, it offers superb heat and light regulation properties.

How can you translate literature into architecture – and how is architecture manifested in literature?

"It should be possible not just to hear the music but also to see it." - Ben van Berkel

From 22 to 27 April 2009 the aesthetic quality and cutting-edge technology of Italian ceramics will be the main focus of the image show “Ceramic Tiles of Italy. A Natural Beauty”.

«My five favourite things at the Stockholm Furniture Fair» - selected by Thomas Bernstand

Fitting Forward is a new Hamburg concept store, in which Bitten Stetter and Jutta Südbeck cheekily show what is normally reported in hushed tones and where overall social design processes are reflected.

At the moment design lovers have no choice but to look out of their carefully styled living rooms at their snow-covered balconies full of uninspired furniture and other articles from the local DIY store.

When the times are uncertain the simplicity provided by black and white categories acts like a lifeline in a sea of randomness.

Leading independent brassware designer, Triflow, has commissioned pre-eminent architect, Zaha Hadid, to explore the capabilities of brassware technology in designing the tap of the future.

A daily vote on modern home furnishings and furniture, lighting and storage

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The annual event presents both well-established and young labels

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

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 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

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.

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

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.

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

The briefing for «Velas» was to develop furniture at which informal discussions could take place after the conference , especially in semi-public rooms such as lobbies and foyers.

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.

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

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

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 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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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