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Designed by Zone of Utopia Architecture and Mathieu Forest Architecte, the Xinxiang Cultural Tourism Center serves as an architectural landmark in a winter sports center, resembling stacked ice cubes.

With the Taipei Performing Arts Center, OMA have designed a collage-like building that sees itself as an informal theatre that seeks a conversation with the city.

Light + Building Autumn Edition from October 2 through October 6, 2022: This special edition of the world’s leading trade fair for lighting and building services engineering gives us the opportunity to take a advance sneak-peak at what trends and key issues are already discernible in the field.

With new collections by top-name designers, Arper has created holistic solutions that serve a practical purpose. Created with versatility in mind, the objects easily meet the call for adapting living spaces to individual needs.

The modular furniture system "Revo" from Profim offers soft organic shapes that can be used to flexibly create different working environments.

Designed by Yabu Pushelberg, The Londoner boutique hotel uses a sustainable luxury concept with bathrooms and showers by Bette.

Under the motto "Sustainable society – Design for a greater good", we recently awarded the Stylepark HfG Rundgangpreis for the first time. The winning project is "Connect" by Leon Felix Voss, which could optimise the current chain of medicines.

With the Cosmo, product designer Robin Stummvoll has created a guitar that breaks with the design and functional codes of conventional models. We spoke with him about new approaches to guitar making and the connection between design and sound.

Spot on for six young female designers whose work caught our attention at the SaloneSatellite and Milan Design Week.

David Chipperfield Architects have transformed the former Préfecture de Paris into a city within a city while addressing themes such as mixed use, urban density and sustainable construction.

Clear, flexible and with its own character: the "Benton" collection by Garpa combines a smooth function with a minimalist aesthetic that is surprisingly sensual.

Paola Lenti's broad portfolio ranges from furnishings for yachts to interior design for buildings. In addition, the Italian furniture company works together with universities to develop sustainable products. As part of this year's Salone del Mobile, Stylepark publishers visited founder Paola Lenti in Meda.

In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects such as a great forgotten figure of Tropical Modernism: The multi-faceted work and impressive buildings of Italian-born Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi has greatly enriched Brazilian architecture.

A sofa system that can be flexibly adapted to every situation: With "Jeff", Patrick Norguet has designed a modular system of upholstered elements for Pedrali that can be used to spontaneously realise small architectures in the room.

The Italian family business Magis combines an international design language in its extraordinary range. "Class not mass" is the credo that Alberto Perazza, together with Barbara Minetto, continues in the second generation. We met him for an interview at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. Read part one here.

querkraft Architekten have built an IKEA store at Vienna's Westbahnhof railway station that sets standards: The store has a green façade with 160 trees for a better microclimate, a large, freely accessible roof terrace and no parking spaces. Jakob Dunkl, the architecture firm's managing director, talked to us about the concept behind this new building.

The durability of products is one of the most important requirements for a sustainable range. The Danish entrepreneur Verner Overgaard already knew this when he founded the fittings manufacturer Vola in 1968 and thus laid the foundation for a consistently resource-saving production.

For Arper, the Swiss architect and designer Peter Kunz has designed a purist table that is both elegant and robust. Thanks to its simple construction, it is also possible to use resources sparingly in production and logistics. He explains the concept to us in an interview.

The WC from the "iCon" bathroom series has been expanded by Geberit to include a space-saving variant that gives architects and building owners new options in planning.

The Bosco Verticale in Milan, which was completed in 2014, allowed Stefano Boeri to implement his vertical forest concept for the first time. Additional projects are now being built all over the world. We spoke to the Italian architect about his experiences and the optimisation processes behind them.