YOUNG TALENTS New typologies10/25/2024Moritz Walter is an industrial designer and lives in Berlin. His extensive portfolio does not show that he only completed his studies last year. In this interview, he tells us what his idea for the heating system of the future is and why he is fascinated by designing luminaires.
YOUNG TALENTS Building Bridges2/20/2024The WINT Design Lab develops sustainable futures. Based at Tegel Airport in Berlin, on the basis of practical work, the team explores holistic design strategies, new hybrid tools, and generating interdisciplinary knowledge. In the following interview they tell us what they are currently working on.
YOUNG TALENTS Good Intuition1/3/2022With her creations, designer Tanita Klein offers practicable answers to complex questions. Current example: Her modular kitchen system "POSSI", which can be flexibly adapted to rooms and living situations.
INTERVIEWS Minimum resources, maximum momentum10/31/2024With RHO, Lennart Zemke and Nikita Marykov work at the interface of architecture, music, performance and creative production. The duo focuses on minimal interventions to develop contemporary architectural solutions for cultural and subcultural environments.
ARCHITECTURE Good spaces10/30/2024Cologne's Severinstraße is one of those streets that makes it easy to understand why people fall in love with this city on the Rhine, which is so special in so many ways. Everything that makes up urban life can be found here. Right in the middle of this colourful microcosm is the office of Aretz Dürr Architekten BDA.
FEATURED Circular milestone10/28/2024Since the launch of ‘Forum For Great Ideas’, Object Carpet's carpet series impresses with its creative designs. Now the company is taking the next step and presenting the entire collection in a new, fully recyclable quality.
SUSTAINABILITY A utopia realised10/3/2024The student building project The Frankfurt Prototype shows how affordable housing can be realised in a resource-saving and aesthetic way, integrates an ecosystem as well as creating a new place for social interaction in times of digitalisation.
INTERVIEWS Reconstruction of a drama10/3/2024The film E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea will be released in cinemas at the end of October. Director Beatrice Minger and co-director Christoph Schaub tell us how they aim to make the architect and designer's perspective experienceable through docufiction.
ARCHITECTURE Spotlight on Women Architects – Tatiana Bilbao6/10/2022In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Tatiana Bilbao, whose credo is “Planning together, building together, living together”.
ARCHITECTURE Spotlight on Women Architects – Regine Leibinger1/23/2023In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Regine Leibinger, who uses her special interest in sophisticated load-bearing structures, novel construction methods and materials when designing her extraordinary buildings.
ARCHITECTURE Spotlight on Women Architects – Xu Tiantian11/20/2023In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as the projects of Xu Tiantian and her office DNA Design And Architecture, which strengthen rural structures in China.
INTERVIEWS Solid oasis8/30/2024Architect Björn Liese started out as a one-man office with an unusual project – the conversion of a Hamburg bunker into a residential building. In this interview, he tells us what he has learnt in the process for future construction.
ART Capturing stillness8/14/2024Architectural structures, empty spaces, abstract fragments: The photographs by Satijn Panyigay show a state between presence and absence, full of calm and tension, melancholy and hope. In our interview, she tells us what she’s looking for.
INTERVIEWS More Than Just Noise9/5/2022Dr. Thomas Kusitzky is a researcher and consultant for urban sound design. In an interview he tells us why addressing the issue of sound is important for both living in and experiencing an urban area.
INTERVIEWS Hidden Qualities4/8/2022Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh create works that oscillate between architecture and art – and challenge observers to question their customary perception of buildings.
FEATURED Figures, data, modelling11/5/2024BIM World MUNICH will take place from 26 to 27 November 2024 at the ICM – International Congress Center Messe München. As an international event, it offers an ideal platform for a lively exchange on the digitalisation of the construction, real estate and facility management industries.
ORGATEC 2024 – REVIEW Nervously in the flow10/24/2024How do we want to work in the future? What do we need for this? And which topics are crucial for the industry? Every two years, Orgatec, the leading international trade fair for modern working environments, provides an insight into the ideas and concerns that set the tone in the minds of creative professionals and entrepreneurs. Our review.
FAIRS & EVENTS Time to shine10/25/2024Lodes and Stylepark organised an exclusive event for architects at the Design Post Köln parallel to Orgatec.
FEATURED Integrative, flexible & open10/31/2024With the ‘Confair Next’ room modules, Wilkhahn offers a pioneering solution for true hybridity in the workplace, combining the different requirements of analogue and digital collaboration.
NoveltyDinesen: The Pawson Furniture Collection9/5/2024The 2024 Pawson Furniture Collection celebrates 30 years of collaboration between Dinesen and John Pawson, drawing inspiration from his 1992 sketches.
NoveltyGaggenau: The Essential Induction5/7/2024Gaggenau makes the worktop disappear, blurring the boundaries between cooking and living.
NoveltyArper: Steeve Lou7/1/2024Elegant, inviting and ergonomic, Steeve Lou creates the ideal environment for relaxing and creating.
NoveltyFornace Brioni: Araldica6/17/2024The play of materials and colours gives rise to forms recalling the colourful works of the Cosmati.