The Designplus Award by ISH in collaboration with Stylepark honours outstanding developments and forward-looking ideas ranging from smart technology for efficient building control to pioneering products and resource-saving water use. These are the winners 2025.

AXOR is presenting new products at this year's ISH in Frankfurt am Main: The ‘AXOR ShowerSphere’ shower programme by Antonio Citterio and the extensions to the ‘AXOR One’ bathroom collection by Barber Osgerby exemplify the trade fair theme ‘Solutions for a sustainable future’.

The choice of colours and materials is crucial for an elegant bathroom design. With furniture and ceramics in sensual, earthy tones, Villeroy & Boch offers a pleasantly warm aesthetic that is surprisingly versatile.

The special exhibition ‘Pop up my Bathroom’ at the upcoming ISH in Frankfurt am Main from 17 to 21 March 2025 offers a glimpse into the future of the bathroom as well as a central meeting point to discuss holistic design.

Stefan Seitz is the Head of Brand Management ISH at Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH. In this interview, he tells us what the new offerings at the world’s leading trade fair for HVAC + Water from 17 to 21 March 2025 are and what is important in the industry now.

Vola stands for one principle: it's the original that counts, not the imitation. Architects, designers and planners have appreciated the consistently high quality offered by the traditional Danish company for decades. Its new main catalogue demonstrates that this promise also applies to the agency.

Bette produces architectural bathroom elements made of glazed titanium steel. In the search for new perspectives, the team is constantly exploring the limits of steel molding with renowned designers. Thilo Pahl, managing director of Bette, gives the publishers of Stylepark a glimpse behind the scenes of the think tank.

From 8 to 13 April 2025, the industry will be looking to Milan for the Salone del Mobile and Milan Design Week. ‘Thought for Humans’ is the guiding theme of Dentsu Creative Italy and photographer Bill Durgin, whose campaign aims to make the subtle relationship between man and material visible.

The Salone del Mobile.Milano and Milan Design Week took place from 16 to 21 April 2024 – read our review to find out what moves the industry and the guests got to see.

The SaloneSatellite is celebrating its 25th anniversary: Marva Griffin founded the platform for young designers as a pioneer in 1998. What do they have to thank the SaloneSatellite for? We asked them.

New layout, new energy: After four years, the Euroluce light biennial is once again bringing light to the city. Yet the question of sustainability remains unanswered. Our review.

When Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, supposedly ordered a yacht that runs on hydrogen, the excitement in 2020 was huge. It seemed that the technology had made it out of its niche after failed experiments as a form of propulsion for cars. The topic became virulent again after Russia's attack on Ukraine. What is the state of the debate?

The efficient sorting of used textiles is fundamental to the circular economy – reverse.fashion has developed an automated sorting system that uses artificial intelligence to save time and money. Dr Karsten Pufahl, Member of the Management Board, tells us how it works.

Cologne'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.

Prof. Ferdinand Ludwig is an architect and holds the Chair of Green Technologies in Landscape Architecture at Technische Universität München (TUM); he is also a partner at OLA Office for Living Architecture. In this interview, he talks to us about the uses of Baubotanik in the city of tomorrow.

The young designer Kateryna Basiuk works on new and sustainable textiles in Lucerne. For her ‘Silent Canvas’ project, she investigated the sound-absorbing structure of insects and transferred it to knitwear. A conversation about virtual textiles, local natural materials and what moth wings have to do with fibres.

Levitating between art, sculpture and functional design, the works of Simon Mattisson are challenging outdated perceptions about form and function and what a piece of furniture is and can be.

They go by the name From Industrial Design: Cesare Bizzotto and Tobias Nitsche focus on the industrial design process involved in furniture and luminaires. Under the label From Lighting the latter are proving hugely successful at finding their way onto the wider market at present.

Four young designers we want to see, read and hear more of in the future.

In our series "Spotlight on Women Architects", we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Jeanne Gang. A skyscraper that set the record for the ‘tallest building designed by a woman’ certainly helped her. More important, however, is the stylistic breadth and self-assurance in her designs.

In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Odile Decq, who seeks with her work to find an individual and holistic form of architecture.

In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – like that of Mariam Issoufou, whose work is drawing attention to African architecture.

In her book “Schwarzer Rolli, Hornbrille” (Black Turtleneck, Round Glasses) Karin Hartmann highlights various aspects of the architecture profession and examines when, where and why women are at a disadvantage owing to systemic discrimination. In conversation, the author reveals why these questions must be asked and what gets lost because of this lack of perspectives.

Liu Jiakun receives the renowned Pritzker Architecture Prize. Founded in 1979 by Jay A. Pritzker and Cindy Pritzker, the award honours architects whose buildings represent a unique combination of talent, vision, commitment and have made a significant contribution to humanity as well as the built environment through architecture.

Visitors to the Biennale Architettura 2025 can experience the high necessity of climate-adapted urban planning at first hand in the German Pavilion. The International Architecture Exhibition as a whole is intended to serve as a dynamic laboratory that enables disciplines to work together to make cities more resilient, healthier and more liveable.

For ten years, the Nolita collection from Pedrali has been creating summery feelings and colorful moments with lightness and elegance. A conversation with its creators from CMP Design about stable connections, essential sustainability, magical teamwork and, of course, summer.

With the remodelling of Eurolub's headquarters, Holzrausch demonstrates the potential that exists in brittle commercial buildings. Fine material and detail solutions were used to realise a corporate architecture that skilfully alternates between representation and comfort.