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Architecture without walls — DESIGN Architecture without walls
by Anika Paulus | 2/3/2026
Trained as an architect and based in Copenhagen, Danish designer Kevin Hviid works across furniture, lighting and spatial design. His practice explores how objects shape rooms – and how function, form and feeling intersect at every scale.

A new balance

A new balance

2/3/2026

With ‘Axia’, Lodes presents a suspension luminaire that offers a radically contemporary interpretation of the archetypal chandelier. Designed by Vittorio Venezia and Carolina Martinelli, it is based on a construction feature that characterises the entire object: the absence of visible cables.

Architecture of Empowerment

Architecture of Empowerment

by Florian Heilmeyer | 1/30/2026

The DAM Preis 2026 is awarded to Grundmann Architekten for the conversion of a freight depot into the Center for Art and Urbanistics (ZK/U) in Berlin. In this interview, Peter Grundmann explains why it is important to deprogram spaces and how he balances the contradictions involved in building with existing structures.

Salone 2026: An outlook

PREVIEW – SALONE DEL MOBILE 2026

Salone 2026: An outlook

by Anna Moldenhauer | 1/29/2026

This year's Salone del Mobile Milano will take place from 21 to 26 April 2026. More than 1,900 exhibitors from 32 countries have been announced, with around 36.6 per cent of participating brands coming from abroad. We have compiled an initial overview for you.

Young Talents

Successful experiment

Successful experiment

9/25/2025

A table made of fabric? Industrial designer Steven Dahlinger thinks it's a solid idea. With ‘Tens’, he brings the characteristics of different materials to bear in a forward-looking and circular way. In this interview, he tells us how the collaboration with Wagner Living came about.

Modest everyday objects

Modest everyday objects

7/9/2025

Danish designer Alvilde Holm talks to us about the value of experimentation, the limits of materials and why she considers the end result early on in the creative process.

There is no culture of criticism in design

"There is no culture of criticism in design"

11/8/2023

He leads interviews and designs situations: A conversation with the young German designer Silvio Rebholz.

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Sustainability

e for emancipated

e for emancipated

12/12/2025

“Building type e” is on everyone's lips in Germany. Some consider it the key to a revolution in construction, while others see it as a legally secure way to “simply build” beyond a lengthy list of rules and regulations. But what does the term actually mean, what does it look like in practice, and what do experts say?

A good read: Sustainability & Design

A good read: Sustainability & Design

12/9/2025

The handbook “Sustainable Design Processes – A Guide for Design Practice and Teaching” by product designers such as interior designers Thomas Wüthrich and Yves Raschle offers practical guidance.

Modular climate control

Modular climate control

11/12/2025

The design office OMC°C is presenting the socio-ecological project ‘Schattengrün’ (Shadow Green) as part of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main region's World Design Capital 2026 programme. This project enables facades to be greened in an uncomplicated and participatory manner.

Great atmosphere

Great atmosphere

10/22/2025

Henning Larsen Architects A/S is currently researching a modular system that could serve as an alternative to air conditioning in public spaces.

World Design Capital 2026

Design as a key driver

Design as a key driver

1/16/2026

The journey begins: The press conference at Deka-Bank in the FOUR high-rise district marked the launch of the World Design Capital Frankfurt Rhine-Main 2026 programme – a socio-political project for democratic change that aims to offer new perspectives beyond the year itself.

Modular climate control

Modular climate control

11/12/2025

The design office OMC°C is presenting the socio-ecological project ‘Schattengrün’ (Shadow Green) as part of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main region's World Design Capital 2026 programme. This project enables facades to be greened in an uncomplicated and participatory manner.

Sunbeams for the cityscape

Sunbeams for the cityscape

12/8/2025

The “Main Light” project is literally bringing light into the gloom for WDC 2026 – with solar-powered street lighting that democratically incorporates design and responsibility in public spaces.

Designing Life

Designing Life

11/1/2022

“Design for Democracy. Atmospheres for a better life” is the slogan the City of Frankfurt/Main and Rhine-Main region have adopted in a bid to become “World Design Capital 2026.” Prof. Matthias Wagner K, Director of Frankfurt’s Museum Angewandte Kunst, is heading the bid. He explains the concept behind it in this interview.

Spotlight on Women Architects

Spotlight on Women Architects – Aline Hielscher

Spotlight on Women Architects – Aline Hielscher

9/1/2025

In our series "Spotlight on Women Architects", we regularly present the work of female architects – such as Aline Hielscher, who, after taking her first steps into self-employment in Paris, established herself as a fixture in practice and discourse in her hometown Leipzig.

Spotlight on Women Architects – TOMAS Transformation of Material and Space

Spotlight on Women Architects – TOMAS Transformation of Material and Space

8/19/2024

In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we are introducing the work of female architects to you at regular intervals. And now it’s the turn of Sofia Ceylan, Dr. Katharina Neubauer and Annabelle von Reutern, who have teamed up under the name TOMAS.

Spotlight on Women Architects – Odile Decq

SPOTLIGHT ON WOMEN ARCHITECTS

Spotlight on Women Architects – Odile Decq

4/30/2024

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.

Spotlight on Women Architects – LXSY Architekten

Spotlight on Women Architects – LXSY Architekten

9/18/2023

In our series “Spotlight: Architects” we regularly present the work of architects – for example, the projects by Kim Le Roux and Margit Sichrovsky, who integrate circular planning and building into their work.

New perspectives

Changing spaces

Changing spaces

2/2/2026

Spanish furniture manufacturer Actiu creates environments for people to feel comfortable in. Its designs for workspaces, educational institutions and healthcare facilities are modular and flexible. The managing director of the German subsidiary provides insight into the company's dynamic nature in this interview.

The future house of God

The future house of God

1/28/2026

In a new district of Copenhagen, a church is currently being built based on designs by Henning Larsen Architects that point to the future – both in terms of churches and architecture.

Stage for the future

Stage for the future

1/26/2026

Light + Building will take place in Frankfurt am Main from 8 to 13 March 2026 under the motto ‘Be Electrified – Electrifying Places. Illuminating Spaces’. Steffen Larbig is Head of Brand Management at the world's leading trade fair for lighting and building technology. In this interview, he tells us what he believes is important right now.

Room for rebels

Room for rebels

1/23/2026

Manhattan's only museum of contemporary art is expanding: architects Shohei Shigematsu, Rem Koolhaas and Cooper Robertson have designed the extension for the New Museum. The opening is set for 21 and 22 March 2026.

Health & space

Shared difference

Shared difference

8/27/2025

What kind of workspaces are ideal for neurodivergent people? And how can neurotypical people benefit from them too? Savannah Willits, team leader at PLP Labs, the research and development arm of PLP Architecture, gives us an insight into her work.

Quality interiors for everyone

Quality interiors for everyone

9/25/2023

Sylvia Leydecker is an interior designer and director of her own Cologne-based practice “100% interior”. Nanotechnology and health are her two central themes, which she has addressed in countless projects, publications and lectures. We talked with her about the opportunities and goals for designers as well as users.

The human being in focus

The human being in focus

3/18/2021

With her office Nickl & Partner, Professor Christine Nickl-Weller builds hospitals, research facilities and nursing homes nationally and internationally. She explains why flexible floor plans are important and what urban planning and hospital construction have in common.

Healing architecture

Healing architecture

5/27/2021

What will the hospital of tomorrow look like? We spoke to Hans Larsson and Alex Retegan from the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) on the impact of digitization, designing for robots, and developing more flexible typologies for a new architecture of healing.

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