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‘The way to become a lighting designer is through being able to embrace darkness,’ says Michael Anastassiades. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

'Architects ask us as lighting designers for something, but sometimes it has to change their building,' says Lucas Goy of Les Éclaireurs. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

'Today, light is becoming almost like data. It's so well-connected to technology,' says Ben van Berkel from UNStudio. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

'Light creates the connection between our bodies and the architecture of built spaces,' says Ulrike Brandi. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

Watch Ulrike Brandi from Ulrike Brandi Licht, UNStudio's Ben van Berkel, Lucas Goy of Les Éclaireurs, and lighting designer Michael Anastassiades!

Get some bonus technology insights from architect Carlo Ratti, Vanessa Quirk of Sidewalk Labs, and smart-home expert Andreas Dörflinger...

‘If it's not a smart home you're building these days, then it's already an old house,’ says German smart-home expert Andreas Dörflinger. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

‘I think inherent in the term "smart city" is a bit of a whiff of techno-solutionism,’ says Vanessa Quirk of Sidewalk Labs. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

'The Internet of Things civilisation has to find its architectural expression,’ says Carlo Ratti. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

Watch architect Carlo Ratti, Vanessa Quirk from Sidewalk Labs, and smart-home expert Andreas Dörflinger!

'I'm in favour of privatising public space,' says Patrik Schumacher of Zaha Hadid Architects. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

'People are the best insurance against anything bad you might associate with a public space,' explains Jason Long of OMA. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

'Public elements need to be incorporated into the concept and the budget from the start,' argues Gideon Maasland, director at MVRDV. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

'The spaces between buildings are more important to a city than the buildings themselves,' argues Neill McClements, partner at Grimshaw Architects. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

Watch Grimshaw Architects, MVRDV, OMA and Zaha Hadid Architects!

'Furniture is the interface between our bodies and space,' says London-based designer Adam Nathaniel Furman. Watch now for more insights!

'It's the death of really hard-edged contract furniture,' says Eero Koivisto of Swedish architecture and design office Claesson Koivisto Rune. Watch now for more insights!

‘Good new products are never an invention. They're an evolution,’ argues Konstantin Grcic. Watch now for more commentary from the renowned industrial designer.

‘Architecture without interiors is just a sculpture,’ says Diana Radomysler, director and interiors expert at Marcio Kogan-founded office Studio MK27. Watch now for more insights!

FURNITURE DESIGN WEEK: 'The home will continue to be a major hub in the post-pandemic future.' WGSN forecasting expert Lisa White sets her sights on 2030.

'The office is going the way of the dining room,' says Jay Osgerby, one half of the innovative design duo Barber Osgerby. Watch now for more insights!

Watch Barber Osgerby, Studio MK27, Konstantin Grcic, Claesson Koivisto Rune and Adam Nathaniel Furman!

The story of how a Connecticut-based design distributor is introducing some of the best classic and contemporary European lighting designs to choice projects across North America.

A raft of new search filters, plus a completely new image-based search functionality, give architects and other architonic.com users greater research efficiency and product inspiration.

Architonic has acquired archdaily.com – the leading architecture platform globally – with an ambitious plan for growth, innovation and even better service.

Asian bookshops are offering bibliophiles an altogether more immersive experience via bold architectural concepts.

Premium Project Logistics partner, the global logistics specialists Kuehne + Nagel, know a thing or two about problem-solving when it comes to delivering your products on site and on time.

Premium Project Logistics is a new, end-to-end logistics service from two industry leaders – Architonic and Kuehne + Nagel – specially designed for high-end projects.

100 years since the founding of the Bauhaus. 5 contemporary projects that channel its spirit.

January’s big-top international design fair is as much a platform for new ideas and inspiration as it is a showcase for the latest products.

A new concept for its 2019 edition sees HEIMTEXTIL also tighten its contract focus. Frankfurt in January is where architects go to discover the latest textile products and ideas with space-shaping value.

When it came to the design of a new park-and-ride facility in the Netherlands, Dutch office Groosman chose to give people and place as much right of way as automobiles.

British architectural practice WilkinsonEyre’s repurposing of a trio of listed Victorian gasholders has reinscribed their status as a London architectural landmark.

ARCHITECT@WORK will take place for the third time from 16 to 17 May in Copenhagen. At the exquisitely curated international trade fair, over 300 carefully selected exhibitors will present the newest and most innovative products, materials and

One of the typological furrows successfully ploughed by Danish practice CF Møller is the design of large school schemes. Its recently completed Copenhagen International School occupies both an intriguing site – on the extension of a former quay

If you want a stable career, become a dentist. People will always have teeth. And if you want a reliable flow of work as an architect, you could do worse than to design dental practices. Here's a short international survey of five rather toothy new

Integrated digital technology in-store: it’s the sign of the times. ISE’s half-day Digital Signage Summit offers exclusive market intelligence and excellent networking opportunities.

One day. Over 30 of the finest minds in smart building.

Seated at the top table when it comes to the white-hot debate around smart technologies and how they can – and will – shape the development of our cities, architect Carlo Ratti gives a not-to-be-missed opening address at ISE 2018.

In the digital age, restaurants and bars remain bastions not only for good food and drink but also for good old-fashioned, real-time social-networking. Tasked alongside chefs who feed the senses, architects around the world are serving up memorable

Next February’s edition of AMBIENTE – the leading international consumer-goods trade fair in Frankfurt – sees award-winning product designer Robert Bronwasser curate a recontextualisation, and celebration, of everyday Dutch design culture.

imm cologne, the international design fair that’s long operated as a platform for new concepts and trends, takes the lead once more, making digitalisation an integral component of its offering for 2018.

It's often the detail that counts. Particularly when you're designing a memorable restaurant, bar or café project. Architects know where to go for inspiration and specification – Ambiente 2018.

Architonic talks to architect Peter Ippolito – head juror for Domotex's forthcoming Framing Trends exhibition – about the international flooring fair's new thematic focus on individualisation and what it means for architects and other specifiers.

With a raft of paradigm-shifting retail-design projects to its name, prolific Japanese design studio Nendo is one smart shopper.

Architects engage the senses in a series of pools, spas and bathhouses, designed to bring the body back to the here and now. 

DOMOTEX in Hanover, the leading international exhibition for floor coverings, will launch its very first keynote theme in January 2018 under the title "Unique Youniverse" leading an industry shift toward in individualised flooring.

Simple, meaningful designs that eschew trends in favour of long-selling products pushing typological boundaries – this is the stuff of Brussels-based studio ALAIN BERTEAU DESIGNWORKS.

When Zurich-based FLUIDSOLIDS founder Beat Karrer met fellow Swiss Lukas Scherrer, owner of Californian design studio SHIBULERU, it was the start of a collaborative bromance that keeps on giving.

Architects get clever, designing innovative and inspiring school environments that change the way students move, think and feel.

Trying to square your new year’s resolution to get out more with a desire to get away from it all? Your cabin waits…

With the hospitality industry globally growing year on year – aided in no small part by the growth in global tourism – it's time to check into some of most noteworthy, recently completed hotel projects out there.

It's not just hot in the kitchen. Restaurant commissions are getting architects' creative juices flowing across the board, making for unexpected dining environments and memorable experiences.

At the vanguard of research and building in intelligent cross-laminated timber, global multidisciplinary firm Arup knows wood.

A raft of new, landmark museum projects internationally put themselves on show as much as the exhibits they house.

It's ten years since Vienna Design Week was launched and the city-wide creative showcase shows no sign of losing its lustre.

With the co-working phenomenon globally showing no sign of abating, architecture and design has secured a valuable stake at the project table.

A new partnership between Biennale Interieur Kortrijk and Architonic sees the launch of a dynamic, content-rich product catalogue on interieur.be.

Live performance in the age of digital reproduction is far from dead, as a string of new commanding concert halls and music venues from around the world prove. Encore!

When it comes to creating unique, design-led retail experiences, skincare brand Aesop has it in the bag.

When it comes to building types for aspirational living, nothing quite trumps the beach house. The architectural surf’s up!

Summer's here. Let's take a trip! Traditionally the poor cousin to more grandiose transport-architectural types like airports and railway stations, bus-station design is moving into top gear.

Architonic speaks to Elke Moebius, Director of leading retail trade fair EUROSHOP, about the changing landscape of retail-design exhibition.

Designed specifically for textiles retailers and interior designers, the Architonic-developed Online Shop Module creates exciting new opportunities in e-commerce

The leading international trade fair for ceramic tiles and bathroom furnishings, Cersaie, offers the perfect opportunity to cast an analytical eye over current trends in these two branches.

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 furniture brands.

Conflict, natural disasters, endemic housing shortages. Architects and designers around the globe respond to humanitarian and social crises with a range of smart, prefabricated solutions.

His raft of enviable collaborations with the likes of Cappellini and Established & Sons, and, more recently, Retegui, Menu and Objekten, are testimony to the fact that Brussels-based designer Sylvain Willenz creates Things That People Actually

North America. It may be the new world to some but Architonic's latest installment in its ongoing Architonic Trend Analysis series – North American Design Brands 2014–2015 – reveals a ranking headed up by a number of manufacturers with

It might be the final frontier, but it's also close to our hearts. Space. On Architonic, we present a considered edit of the most notable reference projects out there, intelligently cross-linking these with products and profiles to give you the best

When young English aristocrat Lady Mary Isabel Portman commissioned an Arts-and-Crafts-style mountain hideaway near Garmisch-Partenkirchen on the eve of the First World War, little did she know that it would, a century later, become a one-off,

Which brands have cleaned up when it comes the most searched-for sanitary-ware manufacturers on architonic.com?

It’s natural to compare. We all do it. Call it human nature. When such sizing-up is motivated by dissatisfaction or inadequacy, it’s probably not such a healthy activity. But if it’s underpinned by a desire to take stock, to see where you stand

The word itself may have been coined relatively recently, but the ritual of 'wellness' – as a means of rejuvenating mind and body – has a long and healthy tradition. This hasn't, as a number of recent projects demonstrate, stopped a bevy of

In this first installment of our new series featuring the work of renowned architectural photographer DEIDI VON SCHAEWEN, we take a look at a unique exhibition of Colombian architect and bamboo-master Simon Vélez's work, currently installed in the

Respected architectural photographer Deidi von Schaewen isn't one for letting the grass grow under her feet. Active since the 1960s and with no sign of hanging up her camera any time soon, Architonic caught up with the peripatetic image-maker to talk

The latest fair-going union of architecture and innovative material-processing technology is unveiled in Milan in the form of Architonic’s Concept Space V.

Gone are the days when a standard-issue ‘booth’ was enough of a platform on which design manufacturers could present their latest products at trade fairs. The contemporary exhibition stand is as much a brand-marketing device as it is a product

Architonic on the ground in the Swedish capital to bring you the best from the designer's design fair.

A chip of the old block Tobia Scarpa certainly isn’t. Son of acclaimed architectural maestro Carlo Scarpa, the innovative designer, who turns 80 next year, was determined from the outset to plough his own creative furrow, in spite of his

'April in Paris' goes the the old Broadway song. But for a number of years now, the smart crowd head to the French capital in January for the spring edition of the now firmly established MAISON&OBJET design fair.

No sooner has that Christmas tree been taken down then the spring season of the annual design calendar kicks off with that grandee of the international-trade-fair circuit, imm cologne. Your faithful scout Architonic presents, as ever, its detailed

Collaboration isn't for everyone. If you're to make it work, it involves serious time and resources, not to mention a genuine willingness to go beyond your usual MO to achieve a creative result with added value. Celebrated Italian design brand

The first-ever design show in the Middle East to unite on a single platform some of the best global design brands with award-winning design from the region, Dubai's new Downtown Design fair, like the soaring Burj Khalifa, has its sights set high.

More statements from some of our Architonic's most valued members, partners and friends during this, our tenth anniversary year. It's all about you, guys._

Nominated for this year's Design Prize Switzerland, Zurich-based designer Beat Karrer's material innovation FluidSolids, with its strong ecological credentials and impressive programmability, is poised to give traditional materials like metal and

The annual London Design Festival, now with over 300 city-wide events, reflects the British capital's status as an international creative hub. But it also provides a platform for scores of indigenous designer-makers – both individuals and brands

For a colourless, odourless gas, CO2 packs a punch. It now accounts for 76% of all greenhouse-gas emissions. So how do you communicate to a fair-going public the relative merits of different materials when it comes to carbon emissions? Materials

Major demographic shifts, including an ageing population and the increase in a younger workforce, present serious challenges for the office landscape. What do the different generations who come together to work want and need from their office

There's a long tradition of architectural photography presenting viewers with depopulated spaces – interior and exterior landscapes, devoid of the very users for which they have been designed. Celebrated Dutch photographer IWAN BAAN's unparalleled

With an increase in international travel predicted for 2013, on the heels of a rebound for hoteliers last year, the hotel industry is looking more than ever for ways to make the visitor experience a memorable and profitable one. Enter striking

Architonic isn't just a virtual showcase of products and materials. It's an international community, made up of real people. This year sees ten years of Architonic, so we asked some of our valued members, partners and friends to say a few words about

Materials Council has been busy. Founded in partnership with Architonic in 2012, the leading London-based consultancy has proved in a mere nine months its expertise and relevance to architects, manufacturers and business, providing indispensable

As the world's busiest revolving door, New York is no stranger to new cultural sights and influences. This year's New York Design Week saw a raft of Latin American designers and design collectives exhibit their highly polished and conceptually

When was the last time a building won an award for the way it sounds? Architecture, and by extension society, has long privileged the visual over the aural. Yet a number of architects are starting to think and design in a more complete sensory way,

In eight short years, Belgrade Design Week has put the Serbian capital on the creative map, playing annual host to an unmissable pow-wow of the finest creative minds around.

With an expanded North American sales team, a bigger presence at this year's ICFF in New York, and two brand-new apps – 'Best American Design Brands' and 'Best Canadian Design Brands' – Architonic has gone all transatlantic.

Need more light in your life? The second part of Architonic's survey of high-end lighting design from this year's Euroluce fair in Milan should provide the illumination you're looking for.

We may live in somewhat gloomy times, but this year’s confident edition of Euroluce – the biennial international lighting showcase at the Milan Salone del Mobile – shone brighter than an old-fashioned 100-Watt light bulb.

No one provides you with as an exhaustive and detailed photographic coverage of the annual Milan Furniture Fair as Architonic. On this we pride ourselves. If you weren't able to make it to the 2013 edition of the mother of all design trade fairs,

Looking, now more than ever, for ways of adding value to its products, there’s a renaissance of craft-based thinking within design manufacturing taking place. Where better to see this trend presented and discussed than in Milan’s leading design

Many hands make light work, goes the old saying. Many new LED producers also make the creative possibilities of working with such a fast-changing technology exciting, thanks to the proliferation of products they bring to the market. But, for lighting

Three score old and in rude health: the iF design gold awards, handed out to a painstakingly selected, international cohort of companies at the recent Munich Creative Business Week for their outstanding products, is looking to the future.

The spring of architectural creativity is in full flow, with a number of offices internationally adding value to the age-old practice of therapeutic bathing. Here's our selection of the best of the latest spa and wellness architecture. Go ahead. The

The biggest, the fastest, the smartest. When it comes to marketing-speak, there's nothing like a superlative to liven things up. Best of Best – the annual exhibition held at imm cologne of the category winners from the Interior Innovation Award

Head north and you'll find a thriving design culture where the level of consideration given to the way things look, feel and work isn't determined by their scale. Be they housing projects, chairs or taps, the Scandinavian approach to design continues

System furniture did what it's wont to do at this year's imm cologne: expand. A number of new and innovative furniture programmes, modular in nature, were shown alongside augmented and reworked old favourites. It's all about joined-up thinking.

If you think textile design is, well, a little two-dimensional, think again. Contemporary producers of high-quality woven materials for interiors are busy exploring all sorts of innovative directions in terms of materials, processes and applications.

More than 500 young and emerging designers have taken to the [D3] Design Talents stage at the Cologne Furniture Fair over the past ten years, presenting their ideas in prototype form to both an industry and a general audience. Architonic takes a look

Everything changes, so they say. But should it? What about decades-old, often iconic designs? Should they be preserved, as it were, their contemporary production remaining ‘true’ in every respect to the ‘original’? Or ought manufacturers be

In spite of the rise of e-commerce, the physical point of sale is still with us. That said, the traditional store is having to up its game in terms of the experience and brand relevance it offers consumers – not only to compete with online shopping

More often than not, office architecture can be, well, a little inward-looking. Shut out the outside world and focus staffers' attention on their building's interior spaces and you'll keep them focused on their work. Right? Wrong. The OperAlp/SALEWA

If the Slow Design movement were looking for a poster boy, Ask Emil Skovgaard would undoubtedly be on the shortlist. Treading a fine and virtuosic line between design, craft and art, the Copenhagen-based creative’s work is, among other things, an

We'd like to talk to you about a delicate matter. The toilet. The WC. The lavatory. However you choose to refer to it, we all require regular access to this most prosaic of environments. Which is why it's refreshing to see a number of recent public

Lighting always has to work harder when it's deployed in underground spaces. But when the space in question is a museum one, where the considered illumination of its exhibits is key – not to mention their protection against the potentially damaging

When it came to launching their latest family of products, high-end Swiss bathroom manufacturer decided to buck the trend for the ultra-rational and focus on building on the softer, timeless design language of its earlier Palomba collection. The

White. But not as you know it. Newly launched creative materials consultancy Materials Council's inaugural show at this year's Super Brands London neatly demonstrated that there's more than meets the eye when it comes to that most pure of colours.

While the London Design Festival's big-top design destinations, such as Super Brands London, Tent, designjunction and 100% Design pulled large crowds, a number of design brands used their city showrooms as spaces for serving up fascinating slices of

It's forty years since the love-it-or-hate-it, style-driven phenomenon that was postmodernism first emerged in architectural practice, soon manifesting itself in design, art, fashion and music. The V&A's major new show, 'Postmodernism: Style and

A number of recently completed kindergarten projects have proved that designing user-centred environments for the more diminutive among us shouldn't be at odds with creating highly expressive structures. Architonic takes a look at a selection of